Hudson bites the dust

**RHINOWSO** · 03-19-19, 18:23

This is the messy part of capitalism folks. Supply, demand, quality, business plans, customer service.

Personally I think they were doomed from the start. Not many are going to pay $1k for an all metal 9MM coming from an unknown company.

Obviously they thought the 1911 aficionados would flock to it and they had a pretty big media hype for it.

Then it failed to live up reliability-wise, then things when down the $hitter from there.

I give anyone props for trying to do something different and step out, but even then it's fraught with pitfalls.

**titsonritz** · 03-19-19, 18:23

Zero shit allocated.

**The Dumb Gun Collector** · 03-19-19, 19:12

If I had a movie prop company I would buy 10 of them just to use as "future pistols" in movies. You used to see a lot of HK VP70s and P9s in this role.

**tb-av** · 03-19-19, 19:37

Originally Posted by markm

I thought I'd read that some of their suppliers screwed them on out of spec parts. I never got to shoot the pistol, but I really wanted to. It looked promising to me. If they get cheap on the used market, I'll scoop one up for sure.

I don't know what they sold for but you can get a new one for $599

**RHINOWSO** · 03-19-19, 19:57

Originally Posted by Greg Bell

If I had a movie prop company I would buy 10 of them just to use as "future pistols" in movies. You used to see a lot of HK VP70s and P9s in this role.

For sure!

**Slater** · 03-19-19, 20:57

I think Jack Bauer ("24") has used every handgun but that one.

**jaholder** · 03-19-19, 21:11

Do the math, folks: $50K left in assets, owe up to $50mil, they made about 8000 handguns. That's $6250 owed per handgun that sold for around $700 MSRP.

This isn't bad management, there's something criminal going on here.

**26 Inf** · 03-19-19, 22:46

Originally Posted by jaholder

Do the math, folks: $50K left in assets, owe up to $50mil, they made about 8000 handguns. That's $6250 owed per handgun that sold for around $700 MSRP.

This isn't bad management, there's something criminal going on here.

That is why I said when something like this happens I wonder about the lifestyle of the folks involved. Plenty of companies have the cash stripped out of them by unscrupulous owners. Perhaps not illegal in all cases, but not evidence of a good moral compass.