My guess is that the defence money began to fade away awhile ago. Saudi Arabia, Ukraine, Iraq, Kurds....... You can do a google search and found that Canada supplied ( well, mostly PGW ) 5000 rifles to Saudi Arabia, and these ended up in Yemen. This ticked off the peaceniks, and my guess is the Liberals government quietly cutting off export permits to many of these places. Wonder why that hit piece at G&M just came out in election?
I think Steve and Ross both deserve some vacations and time off to enjoy some of the money they made! When they come back, they probably will scale down a bit but I don't think they are closing down and selling all the machines by the sound of it.
It feels like they are taking a break, and then moving to a smaller scale in production and running a simpler business after that.
Personally I think we will see new PGW rifles in the future.