DPMS, Bushmaster, Storm Lake, and Tapco are closing their doors.

[Planetmail 12]

Unfortunate news

[CobraGT]

ACR is the only thing I'll mourn... though my old Bushmaster AR was actually a really good rifle.

[xdmer]

Sad to hear but the writing has been on the wall for years.

[Karnage]

The DPMS aluminum USGI mags were (are still) top notch.

[TheTooner]

That seems very Remington-like.

[MitchCDN]

If one was speculating on the scenario that led to the closure of the aforementioned companies would it be more along the lines of:

A) A shift in the marketplace away from the kinds of products those subsidiaries of Remington were selling
B) The quality (poor or otherwise) of the products being sold
C) The pricing of the products

I am just trying to understand as I always see Bushmaster and Tapco stuff stocked in a lot of the online retailers inventory and this seems baffling to me.

[Ribstaylor]

Sucks when people loose jobs. But organizations like freedom group open and close factories, and move them on a whim all the time.

[604buddy]

I actually laughed at this :P

DPMS never really produced anything I cared about. The Oracle was always a very bad AR especially compared to other inexpensive models in the same price range. And yeah, Tapco will go unmourned by me. At least we'll always have their Israeli cousin, FAB

What makes the Oracle a bad AR to you? I've put thousands of rounds through one before with zero issues.

[J.Hancock]

Honestly, The oracle with its aluminum gas block and airsoft handguard was terrible. I swapped those parts on mine and now its not only my lightest 16"AR but the sexiest C8 clone I've seen at the range. Some definite Bias here (with it being the first AR I bought.) Good rifle IMO.

[Forest1488]

Sad to hear but the writing has been on the wall for years.

Agreed. Kinda wondering how they lasted as long as they did.