I gotta ask...is Colt still Anti-Gun/2A?

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100W_Warlock

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I did some checking... Colt is still run by Schumer lackeys.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colt's_Manufacturing_Company

"During a 1998 newspaper interview, CEO Ron Stewart stated that he would favor additional gun control at the federal level. This, in combination with the growing revelations of Zilkha's ties to anti-gun factions of the Democratic party, led to a massive grass-roots boycott of Colt's products and ultimately to the resignation of Ron Stewart. Zilkha replaced Stewart with Steven Sliwa and focused the remainder of Colt's handgun design efforts into "smart guns", a concept which was favored politically but had little interest or support among handgun owners. This research never produced any meaningful results.

Colt today is a shadow of its former self. It survives primarily on the manufacturing of military weapons based on other companies' designs, and on the continuing production of classic Colt designs which are sold primarily to collectors."

I have never been a big Colt fan...just too cheap or never found one that made me want to drop down the cash and buy it.

But, after some other forum members started posting about Bill Ruger Sr. and some other folks, I got to checking.

Yup, Colt is run by those that hate private citizens owning firearms.

Which leads me to the question...if you buy a colt, are you selling out?
 
I knew I don't own any Colt products for a reason...

Plus, they are crummy, overpriced guns anyway


:)
 
Wikpedia.....the source of facts for the attention span generation.:D

Plus, they are crummy, overpriced guns anyway
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Ah yes the old "I cant afford them so they suck" routine:eek: :)

WildicantheydontAlaska
 
I will not buy any Colt, and this is my reason why.

I bought an AR that came with a DPMS .223 upper as well as the Colt 7.62x39 upper.

I can get AR/M16 mags that come in all forms, 5, 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 90 and 150 round magazines/drums.

I called Colt and asked if they were going to make "high capacity" magazines for the Sporter line of AR's.

Here is their response in a nutshell, NO.

Why: They don't believe that the Amercian People should have High Capacity magazines, that the 10rd mag that originally came with the Sporter was "more than enough".

You don't see ANY Colts handsguns or rifles that are produced now days with a magazine capacity over 10 rounds.

And from talking with the rep on the phone, it would seem like Colt actually feels ill about selling to the American People but love the military and the LEO departments.

I say, so be it, let a great American gun company go under if they have such contempt for the American gun owner. And I really love the fact that they lost the contract with the military on the M-16, maybe they will now recongnize that their bread and butter comes from us "lowly" civilians.

And I'm not paying over $1000 for a dang prancing pony, the pony can be bought for alot less and you can ride him/her when it gets older!

Sorry for the rant, but that call to Colt really put me off.

Wayne
 
WildAlaska said:
Ah yes the old "I cant afford them so they suck" routine
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Hardly...I can afford any gun I choose...I choose not to choose anything that says "Colt" on it.


:rolleyes:
 
I buy what I want, though certain companys' political positions may be odious in the extreme... I don't consider that hypocritical. I consider a fireams company who holds anti 2A views to be hypocritical. i buy thier product because it's good and what I want, not because of thier politics.

I don't buy many Colt product because I don't believe thier are worth the money generally asked. (Brand snobbery overpricing - NOT to mean you and your Colt sales WA! (Probably the only means left by which I'll ever get a new Colt product... :o )) When I find one that is priced at real value, I buy it if I've got the cash. But that usually means used... So guess Colt doesn't end up with much of my money anyhow.
 
Ah That Explains It!

Our local Colt dealer did a fund raiser and a television ad for the now defeated democrat governor here, go figure!!:eek:
 
I had a Colt Trooper Mk III in .357. Prettiest revolver I'll ever own.

I never should have let that thing get away from me.
 
so those werent brand new colt AR 30 rd magazines i saw the other day? nor unopened bags of 20 rounders either?

man my whole world is crashing down on me! oh well i guess i'm just another co-conspirator of colts in the attack of the right to keep and bear arms by the people! now whachooo gonna do 'bout it?
 
I gotta ask...is Colt still Anti-Gun/2A?
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If what USP45 says the people at Colt told him is true - and I don't have any reason to doubt him - it's not that Colt is antigun; selling guns to "The Government" is how they make their millions.

It seems that Colt has taken up with the antifreedom socialist bigots who think We The People should not have the tools (GUNS, MAGAZINES & AMMUNITION) to resist autocratic rule by "The Government."

If selling 30 round magazines to We The People is not unlawful - and it is not unlawful - why should Colt care if citizens have them or not???

Fortunately, 30 round AR15 mags are floating around the marketplace by the billions. If you want them, go to the next gun show - you'll be able to get a hundred of them, if you want them.

They don't believe that the Amercian People should have High Capacity magazines, that the 10rd mag that originally came with the Sporter was "more than enough".
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The fact that as a gun maker, they think this is extremely troubling.

It's nice to know that Colt thinks like the Clintons, Feinstein, Schumer, Kennedy, Pelosi and the Million Morons:barf: :barf: :barf:

I say 10 round magazines are more than enough for "The Government" to have.:D :D :D
 
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I am very aware usually of the political stance of manufacturers that I buy from.

I don't buy/use:

Heinz katsup
GE Lightbulbs
Colt guns
Ruger guns
Ben & Jerry's
Dannon Yogurt
Geico Insurance
AOL

The ones that I'm a hypcrite about, just because of addiction:

Starbucks
7-11

It's really hard sometimes. Go to the store and try and find a GE bulb selection that's any good!!
 
Spiff,

All the "new" Colt magazines that I've seen for the AR are either old magazines that were made and warehoused through the ban or now have the "for LEO and Military use only" on them.

If Colt is making AR mags again for general use by us "civilians" then why won't they make 20/30rd mags for the Sporter AR?

The only reason that the AR .223 mags are still out there and now Colt is selling to the general public is because they have lost the contract with the military on providing AR's and magazines to them. They have to sell off their stock or take a lost. Since the government isn't buying anylonger, it's the civilians that they must sell to in order to make some money.

Call Colt, either yourself or WA and ask them why they won't manufacture over 10rd mags for their Sporter AR's that they produced. If you get a friendlier rep. on the phone then I did, and the reason is not anti gun, then I will be more than willing to reconsider my posts and what transpired when I was on the phone with them.

I'm not anti-American company here, I'm just anti when it comes to being treated as scum by that company and then people wish me to pay what said company is demanding when said company seems to be going against the very people that they sell to.

I have shot Colts before, nice guns, and I really like the old advertising that they had when first starting out. Yet they have moved away from their original traditions/values and have been kept in money from the government for far too long. As always happen, when you are getting your bread and butter from elsewhere, you tend to overlook where that bread and butter came from in the first place.

Colt, as well as S&W, have alot of explaining to do to us "civilians" in order for folk to start buying from them again. You don't bite the hand that feeds you and then expect total forgivness when you are forced to return to the base that made you in the first place.

At least S&W is learning this, but will Colt, that is another matter altogether.

Wayne
 
I think I used to have principles. I am personally quite wadded up by both Colt's attitude (as verifed over the phone) and Surefire's strongarm tactics against some of their (former) 'net dealers.

I've since bought both Surefire and Colt. Excellent quality. Outstanding dealer, but I'll confess I felt just a touch "grubby". I'm done with both - 'course now I've got mine: how hypocritical is that?! :o

The fact that my favorite dealer can circumvent odious policies doesn't make the policies any less odious.
 
Boycott or contribute to progun organizatons - and screw Pizza Hut!!

I am very aware usually of the political stance of manufacturers that I buy from.

I don't buy/use:

Heinz katsup
GE Lightbulbs
Colt guns
Ruger guns
Ben & Jerry's
Dannon Yogurt
Geico Insurance
AOL

The ones that I'm a hypcrite about, just because of addiction:

Starbucks
7-11
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I try to do the same as SuperTac, but it is not an easy road to tread. Some day in the not too distant future, we won't be able to shop anywhere except the NRA online store...

In spite of the fact that Pizza Hut is one of my favorite pizzas, I refuse to spend my $$s there ever again. The reason? In Indianapolis, a Pizza Hut delivery driver was confronted by a thug armed with a gun in a robbery attempt. The PH driver shot and killed the thug, saving his own life in the process.

He was fired the next day by Pizza Hut. PH would rather have a dead employee than risk a lawsuit from a thug's survivors.:barf: :barf: :barf:

I am guilty of buying Starbucks coffee, though. In an effort to compensate, I make sure my yearly contributions to the NRA exceed the amount I spend at Starbucks...:D :D :D
 
AFAIK, Colt doesn't intend for the Government Carbine, Tactical Carbine, or Law Enforcement Carbine to be sold to the general public.

If that is the case, I'll buy another. What are they going for now, WildAlaska?

I think I need another 9mm Carbine too. And some more LE only 32rd mags to go with it, and.......now where did I put my Cmas bonus?

Some companies (along with most governments) are idiots. If something is verbotten, I want it! Actually I want 2, and spare parts.:D
 
Lucky for me I've got a bad case of ninja-burn-out. Colt doesn't make anything in the way of a rifle that I want.

As though to punctuate this thread, the long-awaited Caspian catalog shows up in the mail last night.

A nice 1911 with a rollmark resembling the state of Alaska with a "W W" inside makes for a pretty nice logo: won't miss the prancing pony even a little bit.
 
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