Colt bought by CZ

[el Godfather]

That's almost funny. Go back through the catalog of various 1911s Colt came out with over the past ten or fifteen years marketed to civilians, particularly concealed carriers and competition shooters. Let's see, got our Combat Elites, XSE models, LW and Combat Commanders, Defenders. Gold Cups, Combat Unit series, Competition series, Delta Elite Series, Traditional series, Wiley Clapp series, and then a number of really cool special runs. And what about revolvers? New Cobra series ring a bell? New Python?

You waiting for CZ to help Colt revive some of the "discontinued production line for the civilian market?" All-righty, then...

How long it took them to bring out Cobra series?

how many more ditch efforts and more bankruptcies to avoid going under and out?

so yeah it may be funny but now they will have solid financials.

look if they got to this and sold old- something was wrong and wasnt done right.

 

[SSN Vet]

You already have SIG.

Sig is expanding significantly... just bought another 90,000 s.f. facility in Rochester, NH. And if you follow the news, you'll note that they are shutting down their big plant in Germany.

And don't forget Ruger does all their casting at the Newport NH facility as well.

 

[daniel craig]

I like my CZ firearms.

Apparently Czechoslovakia is a lot more gun friendly than the rest of Europe. Permits for ownership and concealed carry are relatively easy to obtain, according to Wiki:


https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_law_in_the_Czech_Republic

Such philosophy should be encouraged. I wish CZ great success, and long corporate life!

Czechoslovakia doesn’t exist anymore. We now have Czechia and Slovakia.

 

[tipoc]

There may be a few around, but it's my understanding that Colt quit marketing AR 15s to the civilian market a couple of years ago as a move to curry favor with the anti's .
https://www.npr.org/2019/09/20/7626...re-of-controversial-ar-15-for-civilian-market

The truth is that Colt issued a public statement saying that due to the pressure of fulfilling the deadlines of military contracts and slow sales in the civilian market they would halt production of civilian versions of the rifle to catch up on the military side. Sales of AR's had slowed at that point and Colt had a stockpile of rifles on hand. They had rifles in the supply line at that point and in stores to be sold. That halt on the production of civilian guns lasted months. Colt then resumed production of civilian versions of the guns. This was in the fall of 2019. By June of 2020 sales picked up again and Colt resumed production of the civilian version of the rifle and carbine.

During the early years of the Trump administration sales of ARs soared and the market was soon saturated. Every maker of ARs felt that slow down. Colt especially as you can see in the articles.

It had nothing to do with the antis. You can follow the story below:

https://www.americanrifleman.org/articles/2019/9/20/the-keefe-report-colt-s-mfg-and-foolishness/

https://www.americanrifleman.org/articles/2020/6/26/the-keefe-report-colt-now-shipping-ar-15s/

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/09/20/col...sale-but-people-still-have-other-options.html

 

[franke1951]

On the stuff they actually make

Awesome. I didn’t notice who the quote was from?