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Colt to stop making ARs for the civilian market?
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09/16/19 02:24 PM
09/16/19 02:24 PM
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Joined: Mar 2008
Posts: 26,025 Prattville, Alabama
Skullworks
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Connecticut-based Colt Firearms last week reportedly signaled they are exiting the consumer rifle market in coming days. The company, originally founded in 1855 by inventor Samuel Colt to make handguns, will stop making rifles for retail sales channels. The news came from The Truth About Guns who confirmed it with Paul Spitale, senior VP of Colt’s commercial business line and was verified by Shooting Illustrated. “We’re going to focus on the products that our consumers are asking for. We’ve expanded our 1911s and our revolver line, and that market has been very positive for us,” Spitale said. Shooting Illustrated reported that Colt’s rifle line production is occupied, at least for the time being, with outstanding contracts which include orders through police and defense channels. According to records from the ATF for 2017, the most current available, Colt produced some 31,987 pistols and 7,342 revolvers at their West Hartford, Connecticut factory that year. This compares with 13,942 rifles, of which 2,097 were exported. Since 2017, the company has been aggressively expanding its long-dormant revolver line, introducing several Cobra and King Cobra wheel guns, to an eager audience. Historically, Colt has been perhaps best known for handguns, but rifles have never been absent from their catalog for long. At the same time, their famous black powder revolvers were making the company a household name, Colt was also producing Ring Lever and Revolving carbines and muskets. By the end of the 19th Century, their Lightning series of pump-action rifles were extremely popular among shooting galleries and in the hands of sportsmen across the world. Fast forward to the 1950s and the company began marketing bolt-action hunting rifles such as their Alaskan series as well as a line of semi-auto rimfires like the Stagecoach. Finally, Colt became a huge driving force in modern sporting rifles with the AR-15, a design acquired from then California-based Armalite in 1959. Colt went on to produce the rifle in select-fire models for military and LE contracts as well as semi-auto consumer versions over the past 70 years. Current new semi-auto Colt ARs still available as of Monday include the M4 Carbine, Modular Carbine, and retro XM177E2. https://www.guns.com/news/2019/09/1...2WPyrLd3XrXsBU-FgZcOldwi7ezIdJaUQH5FVF3c
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Re: Colt to stop making ARs for the civilian market?
[Re: Skullworks]
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09/16/19 02:39 PM
09/16/19 02:39 PM
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Joined: Jun 2013
Posts: 52,582 Gee's Bend/At The Hog Pen
James
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Oh well they (Sam Colt) screwed the South during the Civil War anyhow, so piss on 'em 😀
Do not regret growing older, it's a privilege denied to many!
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Re: Colt to stop making ARs for the civilian market?
[Re: James]
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09/16/19 02:53 PM
09/16/19 02:53 PM
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Posts: 6,713 Baldwin County
mark
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Oh well they (Sam Colt) screwed the South during the Civil War anyhow, so piss on 'em 😀 That's racist.
Sig Sauer, to hell and back reliable.
Whatever suits you just tickles me plum to death.
Can I refill your eggnog for you? Get you something to eat? Drive you out to the middle of nowhere and leave you for dead?
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Re: Colt to stop making ARs for the civilian market?
[Re: Skullworks]
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09/16/19 04:03 PM
09/16/19 04:03 PM
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Posts: 4,597 Elmore county
GKelly
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I wonder if it might be because of any government pressure on them to do so since Colt , LMT and a handful of others make M4s for our military. Only thing colt makes thats worth buying is a bolt carrier group Id rather have an LMT any day.
Last edited by GKelly; 09/16/19 04:04 PM.
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Re: Colt to stop making ARs for the civilian market?
[Re: GKelly]
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09/16/19 04:10 PM
09/16/19 04:10 PM
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James
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I wonder if it might be because of any government pressure on them to do so since Colt , LMT and a handful of others make M4s for our military. Only thing colt makes thats worth buying is a bolt carrier group Id rather have an LMT any day. Time will tell, a lot of Leftists corporations have stakes/money in gun companies
Do not regret growing older, it's a privilege denied to many!
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Re: Colt to stop making ARs for the civilian market?
[Re: James]
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09/16/19 04:19 PM
09/16/19 04:19 PM
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GKelly
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t I wonder if it might be because of any government pressure on them to do so since Colt , LMT and a handful of others make M4s for our military. Only thing colt makes thats worth buying is a bolt carrier group Id rather have an LMT any day. Time will tell, a lot of Leftists corporations have stakes/money in gun companies there are enough players in the game that it wont matter, if anything it will be better for other companies that produce higher quality rifles. on another note has anyone heard whats gonna happen to the militaries old Beretta M9s when they start phasing them out with the Sigs can they be sold to the public like 1911s were or will they be destroyed?
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Re: Colt to stop making ARs for the civilian market?
[Re: Skullworks]
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09/16/19 04:28 PM
09/16/19 04:28 PM
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I have never had any problems with any Colt firearm!
"America First! Nothing Else Matters"
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Re: Colt to stop making ARs for the civilian market?
[Re: Skullworks]
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09/16/19 05:24 PM
09/16/19 05:24 PM
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Posts: 13,061 In a Van, down by the River
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Did they stop selling their Malt Liquor?
Life is a journey. Make sure and bring plenty of Beer.
My luck has been so bad lately, it could be raining pussies and I'd catch one with a dick broke off in it.
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Re: Colt to stop making ARs for the civilian market?
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09/16/19 05:28 PM
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Did they stop selling their Malt Liquor? I hope not.
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Re: Colt to stop making ARs for the civilian market?
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09/16/19 07:45 PM
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Re: Colt to stop making ARs for the civilian market?
[Re: DryFire]
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09/16/19 08:25 PM
09/16/19 08:25 PM
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Colt is a hasbeen company that goes bankrupt seemingly every leap year. An informed buyer wanting quality and value wouldn't buy a Colt. Are they a bad gun? No but you're paying A LOT of premium for that pony. Colt AR's were way over priced. Rock Rivers are better made and more affordable. Don't know,but I have a 6720 that has never malfunctioned and a rock River will never be as valuable,for whatever reason,as a Colt.
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Re: Colt to stop making ARs for the civilian market?
[Re: Skullworks]
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09/16/19 08:27 PM
09/16/19 08:27 PM
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Reloader79
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Gave all my guns to perch, the rest got lost to fire.
If I agreed with you, we'd both be wrong.
Bluetick serpentines around green fields and rock spit a lease
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Re: Colt to stop making ARs for the civilian market?
[Re: R_H_Clark]
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09/16/19 08:44 PM
09/16/19 08:44 PM
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Colt is a hasbeen company that goes bankrupt seemingly every leap year. An informed buyer wanting quality and value wouldn't buy a Colt. Are they a bad gun? No but you're paying A LOT of premium for that pony. Colt AR's were way over priced. Rock Rivers are better made and more affordable. Don't know,but I have a 6720 that has never malfunctioned and a rock River will never be as valuable,for whatever reason,as a Colt. Is the 6720 a bad gun? Nope but that pony premium is stout. Is a Springfield Saint + a case of 1,000 rounds a WAY better value? Without a doubt.
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