Colt Halts Production of Long Guns for the Retail Market

Wait. Are these things gonna go up similar to the snake guns?

*closes safe
Let's find out.
I just listed mine on foolslist for a ridiculous price. I'm swinging for the fences, it only takes one panic buyer to put money in my pocket.
 
With the military talking about a possible move away from the M4 could Colt be trying to position itself for a stronger run a the contract? Just wondering out loud ...
 
I carried a Colt MK18 every day on active duty. Now I own an undisclosed number of ARs that I have built from 80% lowers. No name-brands on any of them...

Not to hurt anyone's feelings, but I will take my no name brand ARs to the range and outshoot anyone who wants to tell me that their Colt is superior simply because it has a stupid horse for a roll mark.

Hell, I'll put my no name-brand ARs up against any of the Name Brand rifles... (Hint: The roll mark doesn't help you shoot straight or faster. )
 
I could never in good conscience put PSA in the same convo. I just...can't, lol. Yeah, LMT is expensive, but they are built to last. A lot of pipe-hitters use LMT. DD is great, but no better than Colt/BCM. Their money-maker is/was the Mk18 and their rails, but I think of DD as boutique-ish. Same for LWRC, KAC, and Noveske. Not saying bad, at all, but price range puts them in rarefied air.
There is no roll mark that makes up for time spent at the range and bullets sent down range...

Edit to say: You can't just shoot a billion rounds down range unsupervised. It helps to have Seals, Delta, and Rangers giving the training...
 
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There is no roll mark that makes up for time spent at the range and bullets sent down range...

Edit to say: You can't just shoot a billion rounds down range unsupervised. It helps to have Seals, Delta, and Rangers giving the training...

Or even better: Todd Jarret
 
Word is they have a lot of contracts for foreign military sales and they need to focus on filling those orders.
BS, as they have separate production lines. ATF has mandated that they are separated. Besides the commercial lines have been getting out sourced parts for a while now.

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Colt has mostly lived on government contracts (or multiple bankruptcies) since before World War I. Their corporate culture long ago developed the attitude that Colt did not need the civilian market. OTOH, I don't need Colt.
 
Let's find out.
I just listed mine on foolslist for a ridiculous price. I'm swinging for the fences, it only takes one panic buyer to put money in my pocket.


Any bites?
 
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.

https://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/colt-halts-sales-of-long-guns-to-the-retail-market/
 
He offered 8. Hard to say, but if you have a couple Colts, couldn't hurt to try.
 
He offered 8. Hard to say, but if you have a couple Colts, couldn't hurt to try.

New in box 6920s. Turned down 850 out the door for one of them at the last Hickory show. Guy spent 30 minutes looking at it, another 15 minutes on the phone with a buddy about it, then told me he was talking to his wife and that is all she said he could spend. Dude didn’t realize I heard the whole phone conversation as he stood at my table. LOL

He was ticked I wouldn’t sell it to him.
 
I carried a Colt MK18 every day on active duty. Now I own an undisclosed number of ARs that I have built from 80% lowers. No name-brands on any of them...

Not to hurt anyone's feelings, but I will take my no name brand ARs to the range and outshoot anyone who wants to tell me that their Colt is superior simply because it has a stupid horse for a roll mark.

Hell, I'll put my no name-brand ARs up against any of the Name Brand rifles... (Hint: The roll mark doesn't help you shoot straight or faster. )

A Colt Mk18? Never saw those. I did carry a DD Mk18, though. Same-same; not implying, at all, that they don't exist.

The user's ability isn't the issue. A great shot with a POS anything will beat a poor shot with a KAC. It's about machining, quality of parts, QA/QC, life-cycles. Some brands crap the bed quickly; some don't. Serious end-users know which is which. Colt QA/QC has been up and down, but across the spectrum the quality has been on the right side of the bell curve.
 
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Neither Colt nor DD made any complete Mk18 Mod 0 for the Navy. They were all built by NAS Crane, Ind. Here's my current Mk18 Mod 0 here that I built in Afghanistan.

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I don't know who built them. I just know that our armory had over 200 black MK18s and they all had Colt lowers with prancing ponies on the roll mark.

We had about 100 deployable operators at any one time and we all walked out the door with a Colt MK18 and a Beretta M9 for all deployments and daily operations with nearby CBP units when we would help them man rural check points near the Mexico border.

I was attached to Pacific Tactical Law Enforcement Team PACTACLET in San Diego for about 4 years.
 
Neither Colt nor DD made any complete Mk18 Mod 0 for the Navy. They were all built by NAS Crane, Ind. Here's my current Mk18 Mod 0 here that I built in Afghanistan.

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I'll take the one on the top, please.

New in box 6920s. Turned down 850 out the door for one of them at the last Hickory show. Guy spent 30 minutes looking at it, another 15 minutes on the phone with a buddy about it, then told me he was talking to his wife and that is all she said he could spend. Dude didn’t realize I heard the whole phone conversation as he stood at my table. LOL

He was ticked I wouldn’t sell it to him.
Amazing how much people blame on their wives. "Wife says I need to sell", "wife says I can only spend X amount of dollars", "Wife would kill me if I bought it". I don't know anyone who's wife cares about or even pays attention to what is or isn't in their gun safe.
 
Neither Colt nor DD made any complete Mk18 Mod 0 for the Navy. They were all built by NAS Crane, Ind. Here's my current Mk18 Mod 0 here that I built in Afghanistan.

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Yeah, good point. I do not know who made the receivers, the rail was for sure Daniels, and I believe the barrel was as well. They replaced the HK MP5s, which I preferred.

Edited to add, we got several one-off guns that never made it through Crane, some for T&E, etc. That's when I was with recon, before the MARSOC days, and it came through a different funding channel.
 
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Amazing how much people blame on their wives. "Wife says I need to sell", "wife says I can only spend X amount of dollars", "Wife would kill me if I bought it". I don't know anyone who's wife cares about or even pays attention to what is or isn't in their gun safe.

Some wives can be controlling when it comes to "the money."

A friend of mine was gifted an AR from his uncle. He then wanted to buy a safe to store it and a few other items in. When he mentioned it to his wife, she said they needed to wait on that purchase so they can pay down their student loans.

That being said, I think it was either on here or Armslist that I saw in an ad, "If you need to ask your wife for permission to buy this, please do that before agreeing to buy this."

I chuckled.
 
"If you need to ask your wife for permission to buy this, please do that before agreeing to buy this."

I post that on virtually every "toy" (atv, motorcycle, etc) I post for sale, except I say "before contacting me". It's unreal how many people will come waste your time, finger bang the product, then say "ok, let me go talk it over with my wife and I'll get back with you.".

Grow a sack and make the purchase if you want it. Or at least clear it with your wife first so you don't look like a chump when you're talking to me. Or just man up and say you don't like it after all. Whatever.
 
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Amazing how much people blame on their wives. "Wife says I need to sell", "wife says I can only spend X amount of dollars", "Wife would kill me if I bought it". I don't know anyone who's wife cares about or even pays attention to what is or isn't in their gun safe.

I do, and I meet plenty of them at gun shows.

Actually had a husband/wife fight break out at my table at Greensboro once, where they husband wanted to trade his grandfather's bringback P-38 pistol for a tacticool shotgun. The wife said he should keep the pistol. They really got loud, then he set his jaw, looked me in the eye, handed me the pistol and said "Let's do it!" She stormed off with a loud, frustrated growl. I think he would have decided differently had she been quiet and let him think about it.
 
My wife says "Do we have enough?" "Do you need to get one of those?"

I'll bring out and show her something I picked up, and she'll handle it and say, "That's nice." :D

She is sometimes surprised by how much ammo I have squirreled away. I just say, "Remember the shortage? Remember when I almost couldn't find enough to take that class?"

Yes, I do know how blessed I am...
 
I do, and I meet plenty of them at gun shows.

Actually had a husband/wife fight break out at my table at Greensboro once, where they husband wanted to trade his grandfather's bringback P-38 pistol for a tacticool shotgun. The wife said he should keep the pistol. They really got loud, then he set his jaw, looked me in the eye, handed me the pistol and said "Let's do it!" She stormed off with a loud, frustrated growl. I think he would have decided differently had she been quiet and let him think about it.
That woman deserves a better husband.
 
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