HuntingNet.com Forums - View Single Post - End of an Era: Remington shutters DPMS, Tapco, and Bushmaster
Old 02-26-2020, 04:47 PM
  #17  
Nomercy448
Nontypical Buck
 
Nomercy448's Avatar
 
Join Date: Oct 2009
Location: Kansas
Posts: 3,903
Default

It’s fair to say Remington has been around for a long time, but I’m not sure I’d agree they “bounce back” very well. Not in the last couple of decades at least. Legacy companies do fall, Kodak, Sears, Winchester Firearms... We might see some kind of buyout and selling on the Remington name, but like Winchester and Craftsman, we likely won’t see a company anything like that which built the Remington legacy name.

Their closure of Bushmaster, and whole-hog exit from the MSR/AR-15 market is an obvious concession to the liability they swallowed following the Supreme Court decision - keeping that company on its feet would mean it’s marketing mistakes in the past could and would always be able to come back to haunt them with a steep reputational and financial penalty at each iteration. So as Remington falls to their “base business” of hunting firearms, in an ever dying hunting market, what’s their opportunity to “bounce back” this time?
Nomercy448 is offline