Colt Canada rifles to the public?

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Goddamn, this is great news! I'd do unspeakable things to own a Diemaco C8 in semi form!
 
mini15 said:
Well I can tell you one thing. NEA and ATRS are out of business.

Nobody in the right mind would buy a $1000 NEA over a $1300 Colt CDN product. Wood chipper machined crap vs mil-spec top tier in the world craftsmanship.

They won't be able to sing the "buy NEA and support Canadian business" tune anymore either.

Before you say that Colt will likely be stupid expensive, if Colt Canada is anything like Colt USA, we will have equivalent pricing for entry level rifles. We have $1400 6920's, I doubt you would see the Canadian equivalent at $2000+.

As for ATRS, theiy are nice rifles and all but a home brew Canadian lower, upper & barrel plus generic magpul furniture and EVERY OTHER part outsourced for $3500+ isn't going to be able to compete with this.

Colt is one of the few manufactures that actually builds pretty much every part in house.
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You are not going to like Colt Canada's price because they sell to LE agencies for more than that, you are going to look at a rifle that will be over $2000.00 easily / pipe dreams at $1350.00...

gadget
 
They're just an AR people, nothing to get your d*ck in a twist over. Colt Canada is owned by Colt USA so its only manufactured in this country, its not owned by Canadians. And C7/C8 are simply designations the Canadian Army uses to identify a 20" AR and a 14.5" AR. The pricing won't be cheap either.

TDC
 
gadget said:
You are not going to like Colt Canada's price because they sell to LE agencies for more than that, you are going to look at a rifle that will be over $2000.00 easily / pipe dreams at $1350.00...

gadget
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only way I would pay more than 2400 bucks if is colt Canada actually lobbied the CPC and Harper to make the AR non-restricted as colt Canada is the armour of this nations men and women and uniform they have liberal proof credibility.
First they point out that the AR has been held in the restricted class for way to long basic fact it is not a hand gun. simple straight forward even the bad scary NDPers look like buffons trying to argue that point.
I could go on and on but leave these to the orgs.
 
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Little bit off topic, but with the prospect of these rifles and carbines being sold, does anyone know if brand new Elcans (the C79) are still available through Armament Technology (or whoever else carries Elcan products)? And before anyone comments on why someone would want one given how crap they are, please save it...

Cheers,
hsld.
 
Well it's been said before and I agree that it will be between the price of a dd and the price of a kac. So no it won't be 1300 bucks...
 
this is great step forward for the gun owners of Canada...

I celebrate this
I could dig up some of my old posts.
Colt Canada sells to civilians and AR is NRed
not looking like much of a pipe dream anymore.
 
gadget said:
You are not going to like Colt Canada's price because they sell to LE agencies for more than that, you are going to look at a rifle that will be over $2000.00 easily / pipe dreams at $1350.00...

gadget
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Please explain why Colt Canada can't make an AR for a similar price to what we get from the US. No import crap and not as much shipping to deal with. If they aren't sub $1800, why the heck would you buy one?
 
Arnie's Guns said:
Please explain why Colt Canada can't make an AR for a similar price to what we get from the US. No import crap and not as much shipping to deal with. If they aren't sub $1800, why the heck would you buy one?
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I pretty much agree with this. I suspect they will be expensive, but I won't pay KAC prices for a c7. Ar15a4 is $1300 from irunguns... I just hope they don't somehow shut down the importing from the states...

Ben
 
mini15 said:
Well I can tell you one thing. NEA and ATRS are out of business.

Nobody in the right mind would buy a $1000 NEA over a $1300 Colt CDN product. Wood chipper machined crap vs mil-spec top tier in the world craftsmanship.

They won't be able to sing the "buy NEA and support Canadian business" tune anymore either.

Before you say that Colt will likely be stupid expensive, if Colt Canada is anything like Colt USA, we will have equivalent pricing for entry level rifles. We have $1400 6920's, I doubt you would see the Canadian equivalent at $2000+.

As for ATRS, theiy are nice rifles and all but a home brew Canadian lower, upper & barrel plus generic magpul furniture and EVERY OTHER part outsourced for $3500+ isn't going to be able to compete with this.

Colt is one of the few manufactures that actually builds pretty much every part in house.
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Quoted for foolishness. I'm not sure it is possible to pack more fail into a single post!
 
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Arnie's Guns said:
Please explain why Colt Canada can't make an AR for a similar price to what we get from the US. No import crap and not as much shipping to deal with....
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Remember, they are producing these in batches of 1000; these are not your US Walmart Colts.
There is demand for these rifles and many will view them as being quite special...Colt Canada knows it, the retailer(s) distributing them know it, and all of the wishful thinking in the world isn't going to make these average-priced ARs.
 
highspeedlowdrag said:
Little bit off topic, but with the prospect of these rifles and carbines being sold, does anyone know if brand new Elcans (the C79) are still available through Armament Technology (or whoever else carries Elcan products)? And before anyone comments on why someone would want one given how crap they are, please save it...

Cheers,
hsld.
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Call Andy or Ted. They had some refurb. ones for $800. New ones are $1300.
 
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Iceblood said:
If colt canada wants a piece of the US market they would do well to make a C8 with a 16" bbl instead of 15.8".
Also the tri rail was an essential piece of kit to me because I always flipped it around so I could tell at a glance which rifle was mine when they were stacked like firewood
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Can't, it's a non US compliant firearm. Only Mil/LE can purchase it. It has to be built in the US to be sold there. The C8A3 was purposely made with a 15.7" to make it a NFA item in the US. The only way you could own a upper is if you pinned and welded the flash hider on it or paid the tax stamp and register the lower.
 
Iceblood said:
If colt canada wants a piece of the US market they would do well to make a C8 with a 16" bbl instead of 15.8".
Also the tri rail was an essential piece of kit to me because I always flipped it around so I could tell at a glance which rifle was mine when they were stacked like firewood
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currently military type barrels CANNOT be imported into the US
 
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