Hard to believe how quickly Remington went from the top to gone.
am not sure if corporate raiding is the right term or not, but it seems apt.
What is sad to me, is that a company in business for a couple hundred years, with a respected reputation for quality (along with a few real stinkers) was just another "game chip" for really big money players to plunder and cast aside with crushing debt while they profited from it.
Fortunately for S&W when Thompkins sold it, the company was bought by people who's interest was to keep the company going, not sell it off for the cash its assets would bring.