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Colt suspends civilian AR-15 manufacture
Story here. No way to know if it's due to pressure, or just market forces (a LOT of competition in the AR field these days).
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I have heard for some time that colt ARs are hot and preferred by collectors, so maybe
Colt has had a checkered past with its civilian market offerings. I remember well all the confusion of different assorted trigger and take-down pins for their AR's, their failure to develop a popular semi-auto pistol (other than Browning's 1911), their revolver manufacturing problems, and their numerous descents into insolvency. I started out loving Colts, now I say "screw 'em".
I'm so old I remember when Colt folded to the Clinton mob and became a military only contractor. F em then and now. One other thing - companies that go whole hog for gov. contracts belittle their civilian customers. For example, H&K, Beretta, and we'll see the same from Sig, in all likelihood. It's too bad, but they don't care because once the contracts are over, the sheep always come back. Do I sound cynical??
So, will this make my Colt AR's more valuable?