Colt to Suspend Civilian sells of AR's

[Dump1567]

Last Friday I was in my local shop picking-up a nice used 2012 made Socom 6920. While I was there, they mentioned Colt was to suspend civilian sells (again) of AR's to fulfill some other contract. I was back in the shop today to verify that info. I guess the owner was told this by one of his distributors (Sports South, LLC). Someone else posted the same info on the other site.
Anyone else here about this?

****Update***

https://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/co...retail-market/

UPDATE: TTAG was able to speak directly with Paul Spitale, Senior Vice President of Colt’s commercial business line. He confirmed the above. Colt has halted production of its commercial long guns lines and is focusing its manufacturing and sales on 1911s and revolvers.

He also stressed that Colt has about 110 days of long gun inventory in its distribution network and if market conditions change down the road, they could revisit this decision.

[Pappabear]

That would be surprising to me. The way Colt is sucking wind, maybe they got a huge Hong Kong deal or some shit.

PB

[arptsprt]

Interesting. Curious to find out if this is true or not.

In the meantime, I hope any new contract guns have perfect rollmarks and the bolt carrier has a C mark on it to prove the gun is really a Colt.


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[lowprone]

NOPE !

[markm]

That would be the dumbest business decision ever. Colts will be hot property as election jitters flare up.

[the AR-15 Junkie]

I bought the last 2 Colt LE6920s the local 3 Academy Sports near me had about 3 months ago and they told me they wouldn't be getting anymore Colts, they even had them on clearance for $749.00 lol. Might be something to it. One of the 2 had a Feb 2017 date on the plastic bag and had a LE suffix to the serial #, like they had had it for a while. The other a CR#. They have gotten no more Colts since.

[jsbhike]

That would be the dumbest business decision ever. Colts will be hot property as election jitters flare up.

No idea if true, but it would not be out of line with how they have historically operated.

[lysander]

The only article I can find on this is dated 16 March 1989.

So, maybe your local shop is just a few years behind the times.

[ssimo]

I love colt..those bastards make some nice ar15s, happy to have just bought a LE6921

[Firefly]

Commercial sales are actually what is keeping the lights on in Hartford.

Your LGS is full of shit. You can tell him I said so.

ETA I thought it was common knowledge that Colt has “dry spells”. Then they are in abundance.

KAC, whom I love dearly, make no secrets that commercial buyers are way low on the totem pole. I waited almost 3 years for my ECC. And nobody makes up lies about KAC “cutting people off”.

Still...having a spare Colt or two not a bad idea. Not for neckbearding but because it is just good to have.

I have a virgin lower (or three....) that I have debated putting a URGI upper on just to piss off normies.