Bushmaster Closing...

[ldmaster]

Read this in the NRA magazine. Took me a while to see it, since I only read in the bathroom these days...

Says they'll be closing their Maine plant, and moving any production elsewhere.

I've thought for a couple of years now that Bushmaster was floundering MORE than a bit, they're part of a giga-corporation now, the one that owns Remington.

Sad in a way, I consider them the company that broke Colt's stranglehold on the civilian AR market.

[Guylee]

I'll get over it.














*continues cleaning Stag*

[gcrookston]

They are just consolidating and eliminating duplicate overhead. I'm sure their lack of quality control and miserable customer service will continue to remain at or below the levels most have come to expect from them.

[BPTactical]

I spoke with Bushmaster about 2 months ago and asked about the shutdown/move. From what the rep said it sounded like they were headed to South Carolina or similar. Hopefully they tighten up their QC

[Bailey Guns]

More discussion here:

http://www.co-ar15.com/forums/showth...ght=bushmaster

[ldmaster]

I've been trying to track down the truth in this rumor, that George Soros is a controlling stockholder in Cerberus Capital Management. What open reports that exist do indicate that he's the controlling factor behind Cerberus...

If so then the guy that has ADMITTED to tanking our currency, admitted to tanking currency markets in Europe, is now in control of the very things that make our 2nd amendment possible. Does anybody really think he wont do that? Really?

Consolidation is always the reason, "elimination of overhead", "duplication of effort"... Etc...

This is the guy that funded Moveon.org, that funds individual state legislative campaigns to eliminate our gun rights. And he owns:

Cerberus Capital, which in turn WHOLLY owns Freedom Group, the holding company for:

http://www.freedom-group.com/

by their own admission, the largest commercial manufacturer of civilian ammunition in the world.


i didn't think too much of bushmaster going out, but I started looking more...

I have 100rds of israeli 50bmg AP on a belt that I'll put up against something of similar value to say that at some point in the next five years, Cerberus is going to gut our firearms industry by some method, perhaps by selling it piecemeal to various "investors" who will put them out of business...

Starkist Tuna and Chicken of the Sea are now produced by slave labor in the pacific rim... wonder who's going to make our ammo?

have we all forgotten Bangor Punta and their acquisition of S&W?


the single scariest part of this, is that it's George Soros, who has spent an inordinate amount of time and money to influence the political systems in countries where he stood to make a profit, but not an honest profit, an profit at the expense of that country's economy.

I wasn't this scared when President Obama was elected.