Colt 100 Years of Service LW Commander

[Rick McC.]

Originally Posted by sdmc530

oh our agency still uses M16 from the Vietnam era, I was really hoping they would jump over to Sig when we went to all Sig pistols and let us buy the Old Colt M16's in inventory they are really awesome. But they are sticking with what works still......

That would be something!

As far as Colt; when they got bought out by whoever it was after they declared bankruptcy; there was a lot of info going around that several times prior, when holding companies or whatever bought them, it affected them badly. Seems that those companies would borrow a lot of money, skim most of it, not putting it into Colt as they should have, then leaving the company in a bad way again. Many were saying that the same thing was going to happen then.

After that last re-org, when they let Brent (and I’m sure many other good employees) go, and changed their distribution requirements (master dealers or some such); I lost touch with what was happening at Colt, and saw a lot fewer Colts in the stores than I used to. I have four Colts that are all pretty cool models, and 11 1911s all together, so I’m not actively “in the market” for another one.

These last two 1911s I bought were both special circumstances. That said, we have our 35th wedding anniversary coming up next January; so I wouldn’t rule something special out! It probably won’t be a Colt, but never say never...