M-16 and M1911 variants.
Same old stuff in a very competitive market.
More American manufacturing going down the tubes...such a tradition! If you can’t get a Colt, US made, then where are we heading?
They are very pricy. I think a lot of people cant afford to buy a Colt. They should have moved down south to get rid of Union punishment
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$2095?
Colt has definitely priced themselves out of the market. I was in the market for a 1911 (always wanted one) and Colt was WAAAAYYYYY over my budget.
I bought the Remington 1911R1 for just over $700 out the door. I’ve put a couple thousand rounds through it with no issues.
Oh, and it came with a rebate.....200 rounds of Remington hollow points!!!
I own numerous Colt firearms and have dealt with their customer service on more than one occasion. IMO their problem was/is that they relied upon the military for their profits and could care less about civilians. My experiences with their rude and incompetent customer service/warranty department are not unique. It’s how they roll. Now they’re paying the price.
I would love to have a Colt 1911, but ended up getting a Rock Island Armory for about 1/3 of the price.
I’m sure left-wing extremist law suits had nothing to do with this.
Sounds like Colt may have a Left Looney mentality...I am kind of glad they didn’t move, because the more Leftists that these companies move with them to evade unions, taxes, etc, the more Lefties they bring to more red states and they vote their same errors all over again.
Colt needs to get back to everyday guns for the civilian market. They made a lot of money doing so and they could again if they met reasonable price points.
They don’t build a 22, the most popular weapon on earth. They barely produce one half assed CCW .380.
They don’t build a 38 snub.
They don’t build a 357 except in a SAA peacemaker.
The don’t build a python though they could sell every one they could build, and still have a 5 year waiting list.
They wont relocate like Remington, ruger, and others have done.
They don’t produce a 9MM service or CCW pistol besides a 1911.
They don’t make any of their classic black powder designs.
For Gods sake they don’t even crank out .38 super 1911s for the Mexican Cartels. That ALONE could probably save them.
They only seek government contracts.
They deserve to cash out.
Uh, that would be Colt's Paterson revolver in 1836, in the 19th Century, and "The Gun that Won the West" was the 1873 Winchester.
Any gun maker producing in the NE US or West Coast has got a severe case of idiotic logic. A good business knows that you can’t make money in an adversarial environment, especially one that detests the product one makes. Colt and Remington should pick up stakes and move South or to Texas if they wish to remain competitive.
When other companies such as Ruger have ridden the sales boom and made their companies sound, colt concentrated on government and failed.