I find myself a bit bemused by the "Colt Is Back!" nonsense, and tired of the ghost of "...when Colt walked away..." that can't seem to die.
Colt didn't deliberately "walk away" from anything or anybody. It was a matter of business. Colt M16s were selling, Colt DA revolvers were not selling.
Years of poor management previously resulted in Colt perilously near going under, and at the time the DA revolvers were dropped, the guns simply were not making enough money to keep them in production.
These "Abandonment Issues" really need to be jettisoned.
Don't take it so bitterly.
Colt DAs were not making money, people were buying Smiths, Rugers and Tauri, and they still are.
If & when Colt does bring out a new DA, it'll be built to compete with what those three companies are currently producing.
People gripe about a $1400 New Frontier or a $1200 Peacemaker, and then dream out loud about a new Python that could not retail for less than $2000.
The market will not support a Python, or anything of that quality level & action type from Colt in a double-action design.
Something else to remember is that those who yearn for a new classic Colt DA revolver on gun forums are only a tiny segment of the market. Today, when so many are buying $500 plastic autos, I'd feel comfortable in saying at LEAST 80% of the market doesn't know or remember a Python or Detective Special & couldn't care less about them.
That's certainly the case with much of the younger generation getting into guns now.
If they were to see a new Colt Python under glass priced at $2000 next to a Ruger GP100 for $600, that Python would still be there long after the shop had sold a dozen GPs.
A brand new DS at $1200 (or more) sitting under glass would still sit there while the shop was busy selling several dozen lightweight Smith .38 snubs for less than $500.
The market just isn't there.
It's really time to get over it and move on.
Denis