Remington Arms Has Been Sold...

[Run&Shoot]

Moving more into the growing self defense, police and military markets would make sense. Especially as hunting lessens. A Remington AR15? A Remington .50 BMG?

I think Big Green could do well in the tactical rifle (carbines, large caliber sniper platforms) market. Bushmaster may do even better with Remington on the receiver.

What handgun to pick up? They might do well buying up Colt or S&W as long as they left the names intact. If they want the Remington name on a handgun then maybe getting Kimber, Wilson, or Springfield if that were possible.

I do hope they find a way through automation and innovation to keep the business and jobs in the USA. Globalization is for the benefit of the multinationals, period. It gives them easy access to lowest cost labor markets and high volume consumer markets, while side stepping restrictive government taxes or regulations as needed. Or at least make it so burdensome that their local competition is driven out by high overhead. Our manufacturers have suffered from globalization of that industry. Truckers and longshoremen will get to feel it over the next decade.

What I would like to see the new Remington make:
- A new .30 "battle" rifle. Could they find a way to compete with Springfield and DSA in the non-AR platform for .308 size cartridges? It should have a an easily changed barrel and gas port system so you could shoot anything from .243 - .308. How would you like to see Remington promoting Appleseed shoots and service rifle competitions?

- A full series of sniper rifles from .308, to .338 and even .50 BMG in bth semi and bolt formats

- Is there a market for a civilian/police alternative to the m16/M4? Something innovative like the Glock was. Cheaper to produce than the existing standard ($800 - $1,500 for AR15) but even more reliable and cheaper/easier to maintain, and at least as durable. About in the $500 - $650 range. High quality, simplicity of design, tough and reliable for police and civilians. Maybe even design a new cartridge for it. Seems like the 7.62x39 necked down to 6.5mm with a 120 grain bullet would be pretty decent, especially if it could be boosted to 2600 fps. I love how the Glock pistol has a few number of parts, they are easily available and very inexpensive. A self defense carbine along these lines would be incredible.

- What would a Remington police pistol look like?

 

[jeff-10]

There is a war going on. Actually a couple of wars with a very good chance for even more wars. Maybe just one big war. Remington needs to grab a bunch of military contracts for small arms, especially since this appears to be a time of small arms fought wars. Cranking out a few hundred M-24s a year won't cut it and I am not even sure that Remington still makes M-24s.

I have a feeling that was the idea behind Cerebus buying out Bushmaster and Remington.

 

[Lucky]

Police state coming, and they buy the company that makes police guns. Not a bad idea, that.

 

[22-rimfire]

Things started going down hill once DuPont sold them in 1993. I hope that this new investment group brings Remington around financially. The ammunition business should be booming. I do expect them to get heavier into the battle rifle market. They have a great name in the industry and if I had a choice between and equal firearm made by Remington or a no-name brand, I'd take Remington every time even if it cost more.

 

[Run&Shoot]

They could also look beyond just the individual rifle/carbine to more specialized arms like machine guns and crew served weapons. Look at how FN pretty much owns the 5.56 and .30 machine gun market. And HK owns the pistol caliber submachinegun market. It took time, but superior designs eventually won out when older ones were too expensive to keep going.

Who currently makes the .50 BMG crew weapons? Are they all leftovers or is Colt or someone making new ones? How about if Remington specialized in all variants of the .50 BMG weapons: machine gun, ammo, sniper rifles of both bolt and semi-auto versions?

There seems to be a market for something bigger than 5.56 but not a full weight .30 and no one seems to have hit on it yet. The 6.5 Grendel, 6.8 SPC and others are good attempts, but the right combination of weapon and cartridge has not happened. If Remington could break that nut they could invent a whole new market.

 

[Lucky]

The next .50 MG is already picked, I think they're already being deployed, and I think it's an FN.

And I've only shot a semi-auto one once, but I don't understand why the complex engineering of the MP5 is necessary for a tiny little 9mm cartridge. It seems sort of like it's not the best, but over-engineered and over-priced. Besides, any SMG firing cartridges small enough to fit in side the grip/stock should logically have the feed system back there, if not in the butt.

My understanding is that the SAS was using beat-up Sterlings, were so tired of them that ANYTHING would have been welcome. I imagine the side-mount magazine wouldn't help indoors either. And then they did a lot of training with the German counter-terrorist guys who'd gotten their nifty new MP5's. SAS said "Hell these work, let's get some too." Soon thereafter the SAS was involved in the most publicized hostage rescue of the age, and they were on TV around the world, carrying MP5's as they jumped through a hole they blew in a wall... Big publicity combined with 2 major powers using them meant that peer-pressure took over and everyone who was cool had to have Levis - I mean Reeboks - I mean MP5's.

Even if they weren't the most compact, were heavier, were more expensive, were more complex, and had that German barrel sight.