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Colt suspends production of AR-15 rifles for civilian market

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Free market Bitches!

Gunmaker Colt says it is suspending its production of rifles for the civilian market including the popular AR-15.

Colt's chief executive officer, Dennis Veilleux, says it is not permanently ending production but believes there is already an adequate supply of sporting rifles on the market. He said in a statement Thursday the company will concentrate on fulfilling military and law enforcement contracts with its rifle manufacturing.
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Gunmaker Colt suspends production of AR-15 rifles for civilian market
 
How many variants are there? A few dozen or more? Long way to go.
Price will go through the roof, places will sell out, and later production will resume and they will have bilked us yet again.
 
Hey lefties; if you're smart, you go out, and you buy an AK.

Never know what's going to happen in 2020.
 
Mach said:
How many variants are there? A few dozen or more? Long way to go.
Price will go through the roof, places will sell out, and later production will resume and they will have bilked us yet again.
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Colt no longer making ARs was like IBM when they stopped making PCs.
They are/were overpriced, and everyone purchased from their competitor's for better quality at a much lower price.
Colt has never shown much respect for the civilian market anyhow.
 
NeverTrump said:
Free market Bitches!



Gunmaker Colt suspends production of AR-15 rifles for civilian market
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before the patent expired, that was about the only AR 15 you could buy. I have several AR 15 colts 35 years old, but over the years, (as they did with their 1911s), they got fat and lazy off the M16 contract and their rifles really didn't keep up=plus they have that "large pin" nonsense rather than the standard .154 size. Stuff like Daniels Defense, and the stuff made by the current contractor-FnH, is better
 
Lutherf said:
I don't know how big a deal that really is. The AR market is totally flooded and Colt's share of it was minuscule to begin with. They lost their military contract 5 years ago and never really were a big player in the civilian rifle market.
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you are mostly correct. Once the AR 15 patent expired, Colt started falling
 
SMTA said:
Colt no longer making ARs was like IBM when they stopped making PCs.
They are/were overpriced, and everyone purchased from their competitor's for better quality at a much lower price.
Colt has never shown much respect for the civilian market anyhow.
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This is true with their pistols. When the IPSC craze started about 40 years ago, Colt Seventy Series Dominated. But then along came Springfied Armory, than Caspian and others. Colt continued to sell 1911s that required at least 500 dollars worth of gunsmithing to be competitive while SA started selling pistols with beavertail grip safeties, swenson style thump safeties, etc and caspian sold slides that were already milled for the BOMAR sights and frames that didn't require gunsmithing to install a BT grip safety. Colt didn't seem to care-they were making tons off the M16 contract. And then all of us USPSA open shooters went to EAA or SA P9 9x21 guns with red dot sights, and colt was no longer even a minor player in the action pistol market. When USPSA brought out the "single stack" division, Colt made no effort to compete-while SA and now Kimber did. I am shocked that Colt still is in business
 
TurtleDude said:
you are mostly correct. Once the AR 15 patent expired, Colt started falling
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I never really looked into it before but they lost the M1911 contract back in the late 80s, if I remember correctly and then FN got the contract for the SCAR and M4. I never really looked into why Colt never adapted and, near as I can tell, just stopped being a factor in military contracts.
 
NeverTrump said:
Free market Bitches!



Gunmaker Colt suspends production of AR-15 rifles for civilian market
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Don't celebrate yet. The Colt AR-15 is only one model from one manufacturer. Smith and Wesson, Ruger, Barret, Sig Sauer, and many others all make a rifle so similar to the AR-15 that laymen can't tell the difference. Most would laymen would likely call these rifles "AR-15's" even though that refers specifically to the Colt model. And these other companies just got a slightly bigger bite of the market.
 
lwf said:
Don't celebrate yet. The Colt AR-15 is only one model from one manufacturer. Smith and Wesson, Ruger, Barret, Sig Sauer, and many others all make a rifle so similar to the AR-15 that laymen can't tell the difference. Most would laymen would likely call these rifles "AR-15's" even though that refers specifically to the Colt model. And these other companies just got a slightly bigger bite of the market.
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Here are some of the better known makers-and some, like Windham Weaponry (formerly Quality Machine DBA Bushmaster Arms) were originally Colt subcontractors

Smith and Wesson
Rock River Arms
FnH (current military contract holder-made in South Carolina)
Palmetto State Armory (uses lots of FNH stuff)
DPMS
Olympic Arms
Del-Ton
CMMG
HM Defense (one of the more innovative top drawer makers-they built me a rifle to my specs)
Anderson (also in my area)
Springfield Armory
Ruger
Bushmaster (part of Remington's holding company)
Armalite
Daniels Defense (top tier)
Wilson Arms (semi custom top tier)
Les Baer (see Wilson Arms)
Noveske (cult following-expensive very good)
Stag (started off making LH ARs, the original owner had to sell after having sloppy book keeping with his Title II firearms (machine guns)
JP (makes 3G competitive rifles-I have two, they are top tier)

and a bunch more like Black Rain Ordnance etc
 
The funny part is all the gun grabbing has actually made AR’s and all the parts ridiculously cheap. Prices go up for a bit, demand doesn’t go down, production ramps up more than demand.... then we get super sweet sales.

Black Friday should be LIT this year.
 
SMTA said:
Colt no longer making ARs was like IBM when they stopped making PCs.
They are/were overpriced, and everyone purchased from their competitor's for better quality at a much lower price.
Colt has never shown much respect for the civilian market anyhow.
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They never showed ay respect for the military market either.
 
Obscurity said:
Hey lefties; if you're smart, you go out, and you buy an AK.

Never know what's going to happen in 2020.
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I know. If idiots start shooting off their toes over Tweety, I'm getting the **** out of this clown show.
 
Lutherf said:
I don't know how big a deal that really is. The AR market is totally flooded and Colt's share of it was minuscule to begin with. They lost their military contract 5 years ago and never really were a big player in the civilian rifle market.
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Daniel Defense makes the Colt look bush league

-VySky
 
VySky said:
Daniel Defense makes the Colt look bush league

-VySky
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yep, I bought one right before Trump won, earlier I bought my son one for 3G. He then started shooting Armalite ppurpose built 3G rigs but that DD is his primary home defense rifle. I like my HM defense rigs and a SIG MCX
 
Lutherf said:
I never really looked into it before but they lost the M1911 contract back in the late 80s, if I remember correctly and then FN got the contract for the SCAR and M4. I never really looked into why Colt never adapted and, near as I can tell, just stopped being a factor in military contracts.
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Colt wouldn't go along with the upgrades engineered into the M-16A2.
 
apdst said:
Colt wouldn't go along with the upgrades engineered into the M-16A2.
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In the past, people would buy Colts because they wanted something as close to the military issue that they could buy without the Class III BS. That no longer is the case since FNH in SC, makes the military rifles
 
Mach said:
How many variants are there? A few dozen or more? Long way to go.
Price will go through the roof, places will sell out, and later production will resume and they will have bilked us yet again.
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Nah colt screws retail shops, the margins on those are razor thin similar to apple. People will carry them but they will also happily not carry them
 
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