Colt Halts Production of Long Guns for the Retail Market

[Mike C]

Honestly, this is a perfect example of bad management.

Colt didn’t need to say shit. Ever.

When RSR or whoever called to order they should have said, “Cool, we’re X-months out right now. Bear with us.”

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When this email went out they should have said, “We have 180-days of rifle inventory available for Civilian sales. Colt remains committed to serving all of our customers.”

Don’t talk fucking logistics openly. Stop running your fucking mouths you idiots.

If I were running Colt I would have fired every fucking person involved with this. From the sales guy to the PR person. No one talks fucking logistics, manufacturing, sales, money, no one fucking talks about our business to anyone outside of our business.

Now that Colt has stepped in it. They should need to burn off the shit stink. They should do a run of 901s in 6.5 CM - something that no one can really construe as a LE/MIL weapon and send them out.

Or CM762 uppers then I'll happily STFU.

[RevolverRob]

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[FredWyn]

For the people who are trying to spin this as something made up by Colt for political reasons....there's this announcement made today. So, yes, they have their hands plenty fully making ARs for military contracts. Here is a statement issued today by the US DOD:

Colt’s Manufacturing Co. LLC, West Hartford, Connecticut, was awarded a $41,924,594 firm-fixed-price Foreign Military Sales (Afghanistan, Bahrain, Djibouti, Federated States of Micronesia, Hungary, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Macedonia, Marshall Islands, Palau, St. Vincent and Grenadines, and Tunisia) contract for production for the M4 and M4A1 carbines. One bid was solicited with one bid received. Work locations and funding will be determined with each order, with an estimated completion date of Sept. 18, 2024. U.S. Army Contracting Command, New Jersey, is the contracting activity (W15QKN-19-D-0116).

[BWT]

I think this happens to in someway to HK throughout the year IIRC.

They’ll mail out products (I think magazines were the big one) twice a year to the States.

Stuff is out of stock and nobody panics.

Somebody just screwed up how this was stated. Probably best to say nothing - full the contract and when your distributors get upset offer that production is currently running continually for contract and should be normal soon.

KAC had tons of stuff out of stock for awhile recently. It’s how it goes sometimes...

[Joe in PNG]

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[Ed L]

To answer my own question, according to TFB, Colt "has been awarded a $41,924,594 firm-fixed-price contract to provide M4s to more than a dozen countries through US Department of Defense foreign military sales. While the number of rifles to be produced is not specified the completion date is set for 18 September 2024, and depending on per rifle cost may run to between 50-70,000 rifles..."

It seems that they were awarded a $41,924,594 firm-fixed-price Foreign Military Sales (Afghanistan, Bahrain, Djibouti, Federated States of Micronesia, Hungary, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Macedonia, Marshall Islands, Palau, St. Vincent and Grenadines, and Tunisia) contract for production for the M4 and M4A1 carbines.."

I am sorry that they are still not in the civilian market , because I would have loved to have bought a 6920 with a receiver marked Micronesia that was left over from that contract.

[Ed L]

According to Colt's statement, they are still going to sell to the LE market.

Aren't those the same 6920s that they sold to the civilian market?

[idahojess]

Tonight I heard a radio news broadcast on CBS that said that Colt would stop selling the AR-15, a "weapon of war," because there were "too many already on the civilian market."

I know that's not what Colt's press release said, but they probably should have kept their mouths shut, because the anti-gunners will hear what they want to hear.

[blues]

I think they'd better stop depicting a stallion in their logo / trademark as it unfairly depicts equines as murderous, gun loving animals.