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For the most part I'm sure they won't be missed but putting thus up for interest sake.


http://carolinagunrunners.net/para-pistols-to-be-discontinued-in-2015/

We have just gotten news that Para will no longer make pistols after the first quarter of 2015. If you currently own a Para 1911 they will continue to honor the warranty. The plan is to focus on one 1911 brand, and that will be the Remington 1911. We will start seeing new Remington 1911’s but they will look more like a Para. The new Remington 1911’s will be available in various sizes from 3 and ½” barreled compacts to full size double stacked frames. The new Remington 1911’s will be announced as they begin to approach manufacturing readiness. Until then, they will not be making any announcements about the change.
 
Vintage Remington is awesome. Really don't understand the business case for absolutely trashing their hard-won reputation with today's much lower quality control...

Just dumb. And gonna bite them in the butt soon.
 
This isn't exactly new news. Here's a newspaper blurb from last spring.

Remington Arms to close Pineville facility; 65 jobs affected

By Ely Portillo
elyportillo@charlotteobserver.com
Posted: Monday, May. 19, 2014

Remington Arms Co. is closing a plant in Pineville, a move that will cost 65 jobs, according to a notice filed with the North Carolina Department of Commerce.

The notice says the company will close the Pineville plant permanently by Aug. 15, 2015. An exact date is not given. PARA USA, a subsidiary of Remington’s owner the Freedom Group, operates a manufacturing facility on Southern Loop Boulevard in Pineville. The company manufactures Colt 1911-style semi-automatic handguns.

Remington is consolidating eight of its firearm companies in Hunstville, Ala., where the company announced earlier this year it would expand production at a former Chrysler factory.

The new factory could employ up to 2,000 people.

According to media reports from Alabama, Remington is moving production of prominent firearm lines including the Bushmaster rifle to Huntsville.

The move has sparked political controversy. The Bushmaster rifle is produced in New York, and Republican lawmakers have blamed new, stricter gun laws passed in that state after the Sandy Hook Elementary School shootings for Remington’s move.

Remington owner the Freedom Group, the largest manufacturer of guns and ammunition in the U.S., purchased PARA USA in 2012. The company’s website touts its North Carolina connections.

“North Carolina. Where every PARA 1911 is born. Each a brainchild of the most innovative, influential minds in pistol design. Made by hand, on a bench, one at a time, by men as passionate about building firearms as they are about shooting them,” reads the description.

Messages left Monday for Remington and the PARA USA plant in Pineville seeking more information were not returned.





http://www.charlotteobserver.com/20...gton-arms-closing-pineville.html#.VNRlMqU9l0s
 
To the guys that were happy that they purchased their Para when they did: Why would you be happy to own a firearm from a manufacturer who will longer exist? Especially if you use the firearm on a regular basis, you will no longer have any support. Besides the fact that you can maintain your Para with almost any 1911 manufacturers parts, your factory support is gone. Sure, they said that they will still honor their warranty commitments to their current clients, but it already sucked to begin with...imagine how much better it's gonna' be now...
 
strider007 said:
To the guys that were happy that they purchased their Para when they did: Why would you be happy to own a firearm from a manufacturer who will longer exist? Especially if you use the firearm on a regular basis, you will no longer have any support. Besides the fact that you can maintain your Para with almost any 1911 manufacturers parts, your factory support is gone. Sure, they said that they will still honor their warranty commitments to their current clients, but it already sucked to begin with...imagine how much better it's gonna' be now...
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You answered your own question, it's a 1911, if I have problems with anything I'll just upgrade with aftermarket parts, which I would probably do anyways instead of waiting for warranty work to be completed.
 
They are specifically referring to the Para Elite long slide hunter. This was the only non-custom 10mm longslide 1911 on the market.
And while Para has a spotty reputation, this particular model has been very well received.

strider007 said:
To the guys that were happy that they purchased their Para when they did: Why would you be happy to own a firearm from a manufacturer who will longer exist? Especially if you use the firearm on a regular basis, you will no longer have any support. Besides the fact that you can maintain your Para with almost any 1911 manufacturers parts, your factory support is gone. Sure, they said that they will still honor their warranty commitments to their current clients, but it already sucked to begin with...imagine how much better it's gonna' be now...
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gdawg said:
They are specifically referring to the Para Elite long slide hunter. This was the only non-custom 10mm longslide 1911 on the market.
And while Para has a spotty reputation, this particular model has been very well received.
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Only one member, jakebrake, made mention of the long slide model. The other post (#4 by 09outlander) did not. But for what it's worth, thanks for the info on the 10mm model...
 
RickR1100 said:
Vintage Remington is awesome. Really don't understand the business case for absolutely trashing their hard-won reputation with today's much lower quality control...

Just dumb. And gonna bite them in the butt soon.
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The business case is pretty simple. Low quality at a low price. It seems to work well for McDonald's, Walmart and many others, so why not Remington? If people are not willing to pay for quality and would rather buy a gun that rusts if you breathe on it and needs to have the chamber polished before it will cycle ammo (i.e. 870 Express) than spend an extra couple of hundred bucks on a higher quality product, can you really blame Remington?

Para wasn't exactly a quality manufacturer either. Soft metal, cast slides, jamming issues...but unlike Remington, it wasn't a discount brand. I doubt many people will miss them.
 
capp325 said:
The business case is pretty simple. Low quality at a low price. It seems to work well for McDonald's, Walmart and many others, so why not Remington? If people are not willing to pay for quality and would rather buy a gun that rusts if you breathe on it and needs to have the chamber polished before it will cycle ammo (i.e. 870 Express) than spend an extra couple of hundred bucks on a higher quality product, can you really blame Remington?

Para wasn't exactly a quality manufacturer either. Soft metal, cast slides, jamming issues...but unlike Remington, it wasn't a discount brand. I doubt many people will miss them.
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Well said. Modern consumers only care about price point, regardless of quality so they've been conditioned to buy inferior products at a marginally lower price. That's why outsourcing to China was so spectacularly successful.

But the cost of buying cheap is actually MUCH higher than you realize simply at the check out lane. Buying cheap imports deprives us of skills, capital, good jobs, income taxes and all government services from those income taxes.

But try explaining that to the mouth breather on the streets and you'll get a vicious reaction, as if you tried to murder their infant child.

Para used to be in Scarborough IIRC, but I was never impressed by their handguns.
 
hmmm, im conflicted.
i was going to pick up a Remington R1 Enhanced because they are nice and have been getting good reviews - and i was never going to buy a Para due to existing problems posted every 2nd day on here.
now the thought of Para making the R1 makes me not want to buy one.
now im sad..... i should go buy something to make myself feel better.
 
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