Colt to stop selling AR-15's to civilan market???
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Steve_In_29
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It wouldn't be the first time in its history that Colt wouldn't sell guns to civilians. That's why Colt has gone through or been near bankruptcy many times in the company's history.
Who cares though as other then the name (which fanbois cream over) they aren't really top tier rifles.
Who cares though as other then the name (which fanbois cream over) they aren't really top tier rifles.
Apparently true: https://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/colt-halts-sales-of-long-guns-to-the-retail-market/
Colt has decided to stop selling guns to people who weren't buying them. Surprise -- the market figured out that you could get more rifle for less money. Imagine that.
Colt has decided to stop selling guns to people who weren't buying them. Surprise -- the market figured out that you could get more rifle for less money. Imagine that.
Steve_In_29
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No they are simply a name that has a cachet to it. Which causes some people to cream their jeans at the mere mention of it. The weapons aren't anything special.Seif said:
Ballistic Therapy
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If this is true it looks like I might have a small fortune.
Steve_In_29
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Yes they will, as long as people care more for a name then the quality.baja said:
Just like I was able to sell my Colt Kodiak for almost 4 times what a Ruger or S&W would command at the time. It has gotten so stupid that a decade later that same Kodiak is now selling for EIGHT THOUSAND dollars. All due to the name and not the quality of the pistol. My Kodiak was nothing special and had to go back to Colt as it left the factory with a canted barrel.
Colts were the ultimate BACK IN THE DAY because they were the only ones being built to that sacred "mil-spec" standard. They have long been surpassed and couldn't even keep that military contract, loosing it to FN.
Hmmm, I'm puzzled, would someone please explain to me why a Colt rifle, that fell out of favor in the market enough to cause Colt to claim bankruptcy a few years back,... most likely due to a decline in sales, and most likely do to price, and, or, poor quality, as well,... is suddenly going to sky rocket in value, and make current owners rich, simply because this unpopular rifle,... isn't made anymore?
Very puzzled,... indeed.
Very puzzled,... indeed.
S&W and Ruger tried to curry favor with the feds in the 90s and the civilian market punished them for it, costing more money than they got in return for snubbing Joe Sixpack. Apparently Colt wasn't paying attention.
shooter444 said:
Look no further than Colt's snake guns. Funny how many pop up for such "rare" guns, "haven't been made in decades!" yet you can't turn around without seeing a python or anaconda for sale. Inferior to S&W in pretty much every category; it's no secret they have more fragile internals and fall out of time quicker. Hell, the people who were certified to work on them are all in the grave or have one foot in but I digress...the reality is people would/will clamor over them. Colt fans are zealots and I guarantee there would be an uptick in price but who cares if you aren't buying anyways? They could sell it for 10x what they are worth but it's not my money being used.
Sorry the government you worked for gave you a shot out piece of shit to base your opinion on. Same for the Beretta M-9. My Colts and my M-9's shoot just fine. There was a problem for a while with the semi auto bolt carriers forced upon manufacturers but that was solved when they delivered non functioning AR's to police departments and ATF said you can use full auto carriers to solve the problem. Actually almost every company prior to the Clinton ban had the same damn problem as Colt with guns not wanting to work and it was the bolt carriers. Another issue was the ammunition but these days you can walk into most gun stores and buy ammo run on the same damn machines that run the US military ammunition.Steve_In_29 said:
Sadly most of the people that talk down brands don't realize that their better than colt rifle is made from the same forging and it is possibly milled by the same company that mills the Colt receivers. They are all finished to the same damn specifications.
The pony has long been their selling point and will be until the end of time. I remember the Clinton ban well as I bought about 3 million worth of Colt AR-15's. Also bought every other AR I could buy in bulk, took me 5 years to sell the other brands at close to twice what I paid for them. The Colt rifles I sold for 5-8 times their rate and gun shows I had bidding wars so a guy could own a colt. I cleared the Colts in about a year. Nobody wanted the other garbage but they got desperate as the market dried up they bought anything they could get their hands on.
Same with Colt revolvers which actually have more issues than the S&W revolvers. I will tell you this much I bought a significant number of Colt revolvers when they said they were making no more. I would much rather have that Colt Python or King Cobra new in a box today than a S&W bought at the same time as you know which one is worth ten times more today. I blew an entire inheritance on firearms and my family tried to stop me, let me say they are not laughing at me anymore. Colt rifles sold and reinvested in class 3 weapons built my machine shop for me which I sold this year. The Colt haters back then gave me crap too, yeah well I am going to buy a few Sendra M-16's for a investment, wonder how that worked out for them? Don't remember seeing a Sendra going for more than 12K and it had a Colt upper on it.
So people may not like Colt but I guarantee you it will retain more of it's value if taken care of than your 8,398 companies and if you save the stupid box it is worth even more. And when the next crisis market hits I will be laughing at those selling their AR's for what they have into them while the smart guys are raking in the money with their Colt rifles they held as an investment.
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