If Hudson is truly dead and gone, $525 for a safe queen that will appreciate in value/bragging rights might not be a bad deal.

In thinking about small gun startups with founders from outside of the industry that actually made it, the only one I can think of off of the top of my head is Boberg, and they ended up selling out to American Derringer.

The list of "revolutionary" handgun designs that didn't make it is way longer than the list of ones that did.