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<blockquote data-quote="OK Corgi Rancher" data-source="post: 4322437" data-attributes="member: 45773">Colt killed Colt profits by basically ignoring the civilian AR market for years and counting on military contracts.&nbsp; And the company was assisted by a union that got worker wages to the point it caused their guns to be some of the most expensive to produce.&nbsp; With very few exceptions Colt has been producing the same guns for the past 150 years and hasn&#039;t really done anything innovative.&nbsp; Hell...even the AR was someone else&#039;s design.&nbsp; They had a brief flash-in-the-pan with the LE901 .308 rifle that could quickly convert to 5.56 but that didn&#039;t last long (though they&#039;ve reintroduced a similar rifle many years later).&nbsp; They tried to live on their name and small stable of guns and it wasn&#039;t enough in today&#039;s market.&nbsp; They wouldn&#039;t have lasted nearly as long as they did without military contracts for M4/M16 rifles.&nbsp; When those mostly went away they were pretty much sunk.But, I still love their rifles...especially those in the 2009 - 2012 time frame.&nbsp; Best guns Colt ever built.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="OK Corgi Rancher, post: 4322437, member: 45773"] Colt killed Colt profits by basically ignoring the civilian AR market for years and counting on military contracts. And the company was assisted by a union that got worker wages to the point it caused their guns to be some of the most expensive to produce. With very few exceptions Colt has been producing the same guns for the past 150 years and hasn't really done anything innovative. Hell...even the AR was someone else's design. They had a brief flash-in-the-pan with the LE901 .308 rifle that could quickly convert to 5.56 but that didn't last long (though they've reintroduced a similar rifle many years later). They tried to live on their name and small stable of guns and it wasn't enough in today's market. They wouldn't have lasted nearly as long as they did without military contracts for M4/M16 rifles. When those mostly went away they were pretty much sunk. But, I still love their rifles...especially those in the 2009 - 2012 time frame. Best guns Colt ever built. [/QUOTE]

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