Colt deserves to go bankrupt.
They hung their star on Government contracts and nothing else.
They do not make a 22. The single most popular gun out there, and they don’t make one.
Wildly popular for hiking, plinking, training, hunting, and they don’t make one.
They do not make a revolver except for high end single actions that are not used for defense.
They have been dragged kicking and screaming into making one single action 380, and they barely produce it.
They do not make a 9mm except in a 1911.
They could sell every Python they could build, but refuse to do it.
I would like to see a sane argument for them to not be bankrupt.
Colt got complacent a long time ago, like Glock recently.
But finally—see the Glock Gen 4 G41 .45: slim slide, 4 replaceable backstraps, 13+1 capacity, overall size virtually the same as a 1911 but the Glock has a slightly longer sight radius. See July 2015 Guns for article.
A Glock 19 is prolly the only Austrian I’ll ever own since I like my CZ 97B. I was spoiled by a Browning HI-power first-gun grip and a 1911 to me is holding an axe handle.
Don’t get mad y’all, but it’s only eleven years away from being 19th century technology.
On the plus side, it was designed to shoot hopped-up Filipino muzzies ....
Yeah, too bad. New England statists killed another iconic industry.
As a consumer, that pretty much sums it up alright. Aside from AR-15s, which everyone builds these days, Colt’s biggest problem is that they apparently have no clue where the market actually is and what people want. The simple fact that their competitors are thriving in this market is a not so subtle hint that Colt is doing it wrong.