There are no Pythons being made today, and the Colt web site is WAY out of date.
....then the Colt brand could make some serious money if they started making revolvers again. Even if they had to start over from scratch.
Tamara said:If all the people on the interweb who flap their gums about buying these guns had actually bought them, Colt's would have never stopped making them and wouldn't be constantly teetering on the brink of Chapter 11.
The reason they stopped selling them is that they weren't selling enough to make production profitable, and nothing anybody says on a gun board is going to change that fact. It's like arguing about in what direction the sun will rise this morning.
Do you have any idea what that thing is worth?! If small, no-capital type companies such as Freedom Arms can manufacture fine revolvers and sell them at high prices, so could Colt. Sure, they gotta buy new machines, but there's no reason they can't make a "copy" of a Python and sell it easily for $999. I'd bet a ton of money they would be very hard to find on the shelves until Colt could up their production.A Pony die-stamp. That's it.
Just thinking outloud. I wish I had money to invest in such a project.
My prediction is that when (not if) Colt goes bankrupt, their patents will be sold to Taurus, which will start producing some of the models again in lower cost environments.
Colt SAA revolvers are made by Uberti.