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Anonymous01/27/26, 16:17No.64809533
>Be the venerable Colt company
>design great advancements for the AR15 platform
>decide to just not sell them, in the country with the best civilian gun market
>quintuple down on the basic army model without modern features
>get steamrolled by competition who did sell improved rifles
>go bankrupt and get bought out
genuinely what was the thought process?
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Anon01/27/26, 16:22No.64809552
Colt’s gone bankrupt at least 3 times since they began making AR15s.
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Anon01/27/26, 16:40No.64809600
How's the LE6940's monolithic upper?
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Anon01/27/26, 17:24No.64809730
>decide to just not sell them
They sold the 6940s for years, nobody ever bought them and eventually Colt stopped selling them. Same thing with the Rogers stocks, the 901, the midlength, SCW, centurion arms/patrol models, etc.
Nobody buys a Colt unless it's a bone stock 6920 for cloning, a Govt. model for a base gun, or a wheel gun to play cowboy/walking dead.LMT suing (jewing) everyone with the monolithic thing also might have had an effect on the 6940, it did a lot of other companies, but idk for sure.
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Anon01/27/26, 18:17No.64809912
I'd love to see this in the MARS 5.56x30 cartridge that Centurion is planning to revive. The LMT patent is also expiring this year so I hope they can update some of their older monolithic models.
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Anon01/27/26, 18:20No.64809923
gun companies are like car companies. they never see upcoming trends, ignore current trends, and rely on an antiquated dealer networks. they can never course correct and end up on the verge of bankruptcy if they don't secure tons of military or LE contracts.
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Anon01/27/26, 19:09No.64810081
Colt has gone bankrupt a lot of times. most American gun companies go bankrupt unless they can get a bunch of government contracts. The US market is weird and super price sensitive so you either have to make cheap shit or get government contracts or go bankrupt and most cheap gun makers go bankrupt too
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Anon01/27/26, 19:14No.64810105
why are folding FSBs so kino
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Anon01/27/26, 19:29No.64810148
CK901 woulda been great
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Anon01/27/26, 20:46No.64810402
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Anon01/27/26, 21:03No.64810450
>Colt makes money
>buys enough other companies to make a significant empire
>Colt is empire's capitol and prestige posting
>years pass, other parts of the empire outperform Colt
>making guns seen as declasse to US elites as guns should only be used by the military
>Colt seriously underperforms rest of empire
>Colt posting now seen as punishment so only gets retards that couldn't avoid it put in charge
>underperformance intensifies
>Colt goes bankrupt
>empire sells off the former capitol
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Anon01/27/26, 22:23No.64810721
They still use high shelf lowers on their civilian models, even worse actually since they have an additional block on top of that. Centurion and Geissele are ultrabased for having their lowers to M16 spec.
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Anon01/28/26, 05:25No.64811918
To me, it seems Colt got way too comfortable having gotten steady government contracts over decades, and apparently saw no end to it.
Doesn't help they manufacture in fucking New England, land of crazy taxes and even higher labor costs
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Anon01/28/26, 06:02No.64812010
You forgot about all the dysmal attempts at handgun development like the SSP, LEP, Double Eagle, All American 2000 and Offensive Handgun, all completely pathetic disgustingly ugly failures of the highest order. They were so disenfranchised by in-house development that they even tried to buy complete guns from third world companies like CZ (Colt Z40), Vektor (Colt ProTec) and Star (30M) and just lazily slap their name on it, but couldn't even do THAT right as every deal fell through.
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Anon01/28/26, 08:12No.64812233
>>quintuple down on the basic army model without modern features
they believed government contracts would just keep coming at them endlessly.
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Anon01/28/26, 09:09No.64812294
The same goes for uncs clinging to their AR15s when there's such better options on the market. You are bankrupt of an actually well engineered rifle.
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Anon01/28/26, 11:24No.64812463
Persisted too long on reputation and association with the government. Legions of boomers telling people their shit was worth the price in spite of ever-decreasing build quality, that these old fucks would just dismiss and tell people they should have bought an older model
Exact same shit with Remington.CZ buying Colt out was a mercy they don't deserve