Colt Halts Production of Long Guns for the Retail Market

[Grant H.]

A well deserved busting of the chops too!

[Circuits]

This has been going around on the webs for over a week. They're not stopping civilian production, they're temporarily focusing on some government contracts. Still plenty of ponies in the pipeline, and they'll be making more new ones for those that want 'em when the .gov contracts are fulfilled.

Nothing new.

Nothing permanent.

[hurley842002]

They would be comparable to Bushmaster, Stag, etc...

Many folks buy an AR based on "specs", when you take that into consideration, your statement is not accurate.

I'm not a tier one operator, so to a certain extent, I couldn't care less, but I've owned Bushmaster's, Colts, Daniel Defense, BCM, and the Colts and BCM's ran the best, with the Bushmaster a very close second, and surprisingly the DD last in terms of reliability.


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[Zundfolge]

Colt management could F up a perfect business plan.

I'm convinced that Colt management could lose money with a Chick-Fil-A franchise.

[ray1970]

I get that they make quality guns, but no one has ever satisfactorily explained why their rifles are better than, say, JP, Larue, etc.

I wouldn?t necessarily say they make a better product but they have been making firearms for a hundred and fifty years longer than either of the other companies you mentioned and they started supplying firearms to the US military around 1872.

A history like that kind of builds a reputation. Let me know in about another hundred and twenty five years where JP and Larue end up.


(FYI- I?m not endorsing Colt or their products and I?m definitely not some kind of fan boy. Just tossing out facts as to why Colt has a reputation for making a decent product.)

[brutal]

How is this news? Any company that is incapable of evolving their business or products to match the customer base or market is destined to fail. Colt chose a business model that assumed they could ride the .gov tit forever. They got slapped off the tit and now they are screwed because they didn't plan for it.

Not that I disagree with your assessment of Colt's management, but I believe they are suspending retail sales because they're having a hard time keeping up with their gov contract fulfillment. Seems to me they didn't over-tool up during the big panics like others did. That combined with all the new entries making AR's and they're kinda right that there's excess manufacturing capacity - except at Colt of course.

Latest I have seen says it is probably a temporary halt on rifle sales.

My bad. Colt lost the M4 contract in 2013...but it appears that they're still in the game:
COLT, FN SPLIT $177 MILLION ARMY M4 CONTRACT AWARDS

[Grant H.]

C'mon, why you gotta make my faux internet outrage meaningless and misplaced?!?

I hope that's true, but I wouldn't be terribly surprised to find out that they are pandering to the idiots.

[theGinsue]

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...but I wouldn't be terribly surprised to find out that they are pandering to the idiots.

Such an expectation wouldn't be misplaced gauging from similar actions by many of the other big name gun companies in the past (Ruger comes easily to mind).

[eddiememphis]

https://www.colt.com/news/2630

Colt's statement

[Gman]

I'm seeing this misrepresented by the MSM this morning. They're implying that Colt is doing this due to social pressure with their snippets of Colt's actual statement, particularly with this sentence: "At the end of the day, we believe it is good sense to follow consumer demand and to adjust as market dynamics change."

This isn't as tilted as what I'm seeing live from the morning Fox 31 anchors;
https://kdvr.com/2019/09/19/colt-will-stop-making-ar-15-rifles-for-consumers/