Once CZ buys Colt - Colt is gone & the future of the brand is for CZ to determine.
Yes, the future of the Colt brand is certainly for CZ to determine. That’s not in question. The problem is saying that “Colt is gone”. By that logic, Sako is gone since Beretta bought it, Uberti is doubly gone since Benelli bought it and then Beretta bought Benelli, Benelli is gone, Magnum Research is gone since Kahr bought it, Tikka is doubly gone since Sako bought it and then Beretta bought Sako, Winchester has been gone since 1989 when FN bought it, Walther has been gone since 1993 when Umarex bought it, Smith & Wesson has been gone since Saf-T-Hammer bought it in 2001, Stag Arms is gone, the list goes on…
Clearly, it is pure nonsense to claim that merely because one company buys another, the first company is gone, or the brand is gone. Can it happen that way? Well, sure, it can, but when the purchased company has a well-known brand/reputation, it rarely does.
Again - my point here is - after the sale the Colt Python will be no more. It will be the CZ Python since CZ will own everything about it.
What you are claiming is clear. It’s just that the claim can’t be supported at this point.
It's child’s play to find counterexamples--products that continued essentially unchanged after the company that made them was acquired by another company.
Might CZ decide to change the Colt Python, or discontinue it? Perhaps. But they might leave it alone completely. And no, the fact that CZ owns Colt won’t automatically make all the products that Colt makes CZ products any more than all the products Tikka makes are called Sako/Beretta products, or all the products Uberti makes are called Benelli/Beretta products, all the Federal ammunition and CCI products are called Vista Outdoors products, or all Walther products are now called Umarex products.
Do we hear people talking about SAF-T-Hammer Model 686 revolvers? American Outdoor Brands Model M&P 2.0 pistols? Beretta TRG-S rifles? FN Herstal Model 94 lever action rifles? Benelli Cattlemen revolvers, Vista Outdoors Hydrashok ammunition? No, it just doesn't happen.