You guys act like Colt is your local corner gunstore gunsmith who won't give you a treat. One reason they quit making Pythons in the first place is they got tired of being held hostage by the UAW over when and how the union workers would do anything. It's not that all the old workers are retired, they could train new ones. Colt looked real hard at which guns required the minimum of hand work and focused on those guns. Yes, some people still want a revolver, but revolvers are more of a novelty or range toy nowadays, nobody carries a revolver for serious work. Revolvers need LOTS of hand work to be really smooth and nice, and people keep looking at the pricetag and shaking their heads so the manufacturers drop the expensive to make guns and focus on the guns that cost less. That's why Colt focused on 1911s 40 years ago.