CZ attempting to buy Colt

[johnson]

They already do. CZ makes P-10s in Kansas

Do they manufacture or just import? I used to drive by CZ-USA every workday for 5 years (before knowing/realizing they were in KCK) and it's a fairly small building.

Edit: I looked up the satellite view and saw that there's another much larger building behind the main office.

[cheby]

This guy was their first president after their socialism collapsed:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Václav_Havel

[Glenn E. Meyer]

The first new gun should be named the Colt Kolache. It could be a sweet gun. I do love them Kolaches.

[Borderland]

I've been a Colt buyer over the years, still have one that I shoot frequently. As a company they seem to be on life support so if someone wanted to resurrect the name it would be a good thing. I have a CZ rifle that's amazingly accurate so they know how to build rifles. Don't know anything about their pistols. They don't seem to be popular at my range.

[Jim Watson]

I hope this works out better than the Navajos buying Remington.

[BWT]

This guy was their first president after their socialism collapsed:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Václav_Havel

You know what though and I may be on drugs here.

But, when you’re contending for government contracts - it behooves you to rub elbows with the government official’s in that country and sponsor the things they sponsor, etc.

I work in the IT field and I think some of the calls for social reform from this industry are genuine desires for good and some are trying to get in the good graces of other businesses or prospective customers, etc.

A friend of mine works for a law firm of a man that was a Republican in the State Senate in a very conservative state. He now drives a Tesla and has very liberal views and owns a personal injury practice. Who knows his motives (who cares people change too), but those are literally polar opposites. It’s just an illustration, but anyway. I think CZ’s made awesome guns and I think the best parallel I can see for them in the gun industry is FN.

Who ironically, also makes AR pattern guns for the government.

[Duelist]

I've been a Colt buyer over the years, still have one that I shoot frequently. As a company they seem to be on life support so if someone wanted to resurrect the name it would be a good thing. I have a CZ rifle that's amazingly accurate so they know how to build rifles. Don't know anything about their pistols. They don't seem to be popular at my range.

CZ pistols are very popular, and with good reason.

[ssb]

1911s are kind of a flagship for Colt. I wonder what that’ll mean for the product line given CZ owns DW.

[Trigger]

Another possibility is it would give CZ a better angle on lucrative government contracts.

[cheby]

I would guess the name/trademark as a prestige brand and better access to gov't contracts, aside from the physical assets and employees. I don't know how much debt Colt currently has, but it's probably still a metric shit ton. If CZ has ready cash on hand to eliminate the debt burden and free up operating cash, maybe they can do things Colt couldn't. Plus they'll have a much larger product mix then Colt alone did. Use Colt as the "Cadillac" brand, use CZ as the "Chevrolet" brand sort of thing, maybe?

I haven't dug into it at all, just spitballing.

Yeah, I get it. Not sure about the "Cadillac" part though. It's rather John Deere.