I wanted to start a new thread for this to keep people up to date on the progress.
I currently have 6 manufacturers polled. I have one other manufacturer that is gathering their data to respond and should have their response posted by the end of next week. I have two requests out with no response. I will look for alternate contacts to try and get these two on board.
My intention is to only have requests out to as many as 4 manufacturers at once, just to make things easier for me to track. I'm archiving all emails after initial contact, and keeping a log of the correspondence for all manufacturers.
110307 Update:
I have two more that returned my emails now.
That makes the total so far:
6 respondents
3 pending
2 no-replies
I'll have to seek out better contacts at Bushmaster and DSA, although with the upheaval I'm not sure what to expect from the former.
110308 Update:
8 respondents
1 pending
2 no-replies
110316 Update:
8 respondents
2 pending
2 no-replies
110326 Update:
9 Respondents
2 Pending
2 no-replies
110501 Update:
Completed responses from:
- Accurate Armory
- Bravo Company MFG, Inc.
- CMMG Inc.
- Colt
- Daniel Defense, Inc.
- LMT
- Noveske Rifleworks LLC
- SIONICS
- Spike's Tactical
Awaiting responses from:
- Armalite (initial contact 2/24)
- Smith & Wesson (initial contact 3/11)
Initial Contact made (and no response from):
- DSA (2/24)
- Bushmaster (4/25, followup 5/1)
- Stag (5/1)
- DPMS (5/1)
- Olympic (5/1)
Attempted Contact:
- Rock River Arms (5/1 "email us" removed from site due to NRA show)
110502 Update:
Got response from Stag. Seemed amenable to answering questionnaire.
110509 Update:
- Stag Arms - conversation still on-going
- Olympic Arms - "Sorry, but at this time, Olympic Arms officially declines to participate in your "chart". "
Official and complete Olympic Arms reply
“For more details Olympic Arms welcomes all inquiries made directly to the manufacturer at 800-228-3471”.
110512 Update:
Completed responses updated to include Stag
Completed responses from:
- Accurate Armory
- Bravo Company MFG, Inc.
- CMMG Inc.
- Colt
- Daniel Defense, Inc.
- LMT
- Noveske Rifleworks LLC
- SIONICS
- Spike's Tactical
- Stag Arms
Bookmarks