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Maybe I missed it but what is so bad about them? Ive never paid much attention to them as I’m not interested in a piston gun.
Colt Canada already has a CHF machine.
ETA: If this gets two gun manufacturers to move out of anti states that they no longer have to pay tax money to a state that will use the money to try and shut them down then it is a win.
That may be true but I don’t see how that is worth $60M
Originally Posted by TehLlama
Yeah, my immediate thought is that if LWRC isn’t in great financial shape, Colt can cheaply pick up a bit of IP regarding the LWRC lowers, and start shifting production with minimal impact (and draw minimal attention to moving their production to a more tax friendly environment).
I agree with scottyran. Definitely not worth $60M for an ambi lower especially since Colt introduced their their own ambi lower for the 5.56 platform at SHOT.
Mike
They build cheap garbage, Astroturf the forums with fake positive feedback (posing as happy customers), flood the gun rags with bullshit, go on the shooting/Mil channel shows and throw fukking ridiculous lies like “our barrels last twice as long as everyone elses”, etc.
They market trash as premium.
Tell us how you really feel. :sarcastic:
Funny, if you read the post beneath this one on the Washington Times POS article dumping on the M4 and ask why Colt would do this, you’d almost have to think that the fix is in for the military to go 6.8 spc in the near future.
HIGHLY doubt 6.8’s adoption.
6.8???
Is that retarded shit still even around?
Wow, glad I got my M6IC early last year. Just installed the UCIW stock yesterday and it runs perfectly. Haven’t owned any Colt rifles since I had an old SP1 in the 80’s. After what they did to gun owners in the late 80’s and 90’s. I would never support them again. I guess most if you don’t remember that! Colt will screw it all up again!
On Monday, the girl at LWRCI that I talked with had no clue. I asked when they were moving! She said, “Hopefully, never. I like my job.”
She’s probaly employed as a full time Astroturfer. 
But not surprising that they have employees with NO CLUE.
I liked it when I owned it, but .300BLK makes it obsolete due to parts commonality. TBH, 6.8SPC is very rapidly becoming irrelevant. Except as maybe a hunting round, but even then…
No telling what IP is there that none of us know about. Before deals like this go through, the purchasing company gets to do a deep dive into what they’re buying, basically seeing everything, so obviously Colt saw something worth paying $60M for. It could very well be that the book value of LWRC minus IP (ie factory, machinery, land, etc etc) was a significant percentage of the $60M, in essence letting them pay somewhat less than the $60 for the IP…
It makes a great hog gun. An 85gr TSX @ 3000 fps isn’t anything to sneeze at. Expensive as hell to shoot though. 
And since Colt DOESN’T do this then their purchase of LWRC should be a good thing.
I like my Noveske. This purchase affects me in no way. I am however enjoying this thread 
I don’t look at the Blackout and the 6.8 as serving the same niches. The 6.8 is a more powerful round.
Yeah, agreed. I didn’t mean to stir that pot - just pointing out the "conspiracy feel’ of the two threads appearing at the same time.
Agreed. Just like I wouldn’t replace my 556 rifles with BLKOUT, BLKOUT isn’t going to replace the 6.8SPC. Yes, I have all three. Different niches.