S&W to buy T/C

[Rick Davis]

SPRINGFIELD, Mass. - (AP) - ..., Smith & Wesson (SWHC) ...announced
Monday, the Springfield gunmaker said it is
buying Thompson/Center Arms, a Rochester, N.H.-based company that
specializes in muzzleloaders and rimfire rifles....
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[Bob Riegl]

:hmm: This is happening quite a bit all over the firearms manufacture industry. Walther acquired an old Swiss company Hammerli a while back----Remington went on the block and now somebody has taken them over----S&W was acquired by the Brits several years back and now is under USA control again. SIG acquired everything they could see several years back. While T/C was a great source of early ML repros--the Inline (yuuuuuch) inroads have produced good sales, so who knows there motivations for accepting the takeover---mebbe the Inline isn't as great a seller as the NMLRA thinks. :thumbsup:

 

[Jumpshot]

This is happening quite a bit all over the firearms manufacture industry.

All over this forum too. :grin:

 

[roundball]

This is happening quite a bit all over the firearms manufacture industry.

All over this forum too. :grin:

:rotf:

 

[Tommy Bruce]

I'd venture to say that the T/C Hawken and renegade probably account for very little of the guns sold by T/C these days. The omega line of inlines, the reintroduction of the contender and especially the encore with the interchangable barrels has became the new face of T/C any way. Over the passed two years I worked as seasonal help at Cabela's in Wheeling Wva and probably sold more encores than any other type of gun. I don't remember selling one Hawken. I know it's not historically correct but it was a well made gun none the less. It wouldn't suprise me to see S & W do away with the traditional guns altogether. Hope I'm wrong.

 

[faw3]

Guess the only good part is the million or so that are out and around now, S+W will run out of parts for the sidelocks really fast. Fred :hatsoff: (lets face it do they care what 10,000 people care about vs 100,000 or more? duhhhhh