http://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2014/02/20/breaking-news-colt-buying-lwrc-60-million/
Markm is going to freak…
Don’t panic, boys. I think we might be able to talk him down.
Quick - somebody get a case of 175-grain Sierra Match Kings and distract him.
…or 77’s.
How will this affect his & Scottryan’s relationship?
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Interesting. There was a post in the Colt forum on TOS back in November about Colt buying LWRC. Didn’t think it would actually happen.
What will really get him riled up is the first “LWRC is owned by Colt, so they must be just as good” argument/thread.
He secretly wants one with a keymod…lol
Stay calm markm… Think of the children!!!
I knew I should have bought one when I had the chance.
Sorry guys, but I don’t get it. Is this a good thing or bad thing that is happening?
Good for the most part, IMO.
LWRC announces DI rifles…Colt announces it’s buying LWRC…I wonder.
I was surprised when I first heard it a few months ago, but then you couldn’t find a 6940P and now we know why.
What a coincidence…
The article clearly states that (at least) the M6IC will be branded as Colt. One could therefore reasonably assume that LWRC will be no more…
I never saw this one coming.
Markm hasn’t posted here yet because he’s probably still having convulsions. Someone should go check on him.
Colt just paid $60M for the rights to a candy cane shaped barrel fluting.
I wonder what this means for their current rifles as well as the M16 and M4.
I’m going to call it now, Adams Arms wins the FRAK competition(just happens to have a revision for a bulky piston conversion) and Colt takes LWRC to make a piston conversion for the M4, you read it here first…
:lol::sarcastic::jester:
All of the idiotic comments lamenting how LWRC is now going to “go
down hill with crappy quality”, lol!
I wonder how much this is connected to Colt losing the gov manufacturing contract?
The IC lower does seem to be the best convinced execution of a truly ambidextrous configuration, which is about the only IP worth purchasing, IMO.
Colt becomes the new freedom group and takes a nose dive marketing to lowest common denominator like FG.
They know their GOV contract threshold is coming to an end.
Calling it now.
I am having a hard time seeing how this is going to benefit Colt.
None of LWRC offerings bring anything to the table, that Colt already can’t do.
If Colt had been making the guns we wanted the entire time, they wouldn’t of had to buy LWRC.
Colts monolith is better than LWRC 3 piece rail upper contraption. LWRCs rail is an antiquated POS. A rail that has a removable top is a completely ass backwards way of gaining access to the operating system. Any type of laser or IR sight will not stay zeroed regardless of LWRCs bullshit 1 MOA claim.
The only thing LWRC makes, that I want, is their compact stock that looks like an old school Colt CAR stock.