You need to understand something about Ruger.
"Ruger has no plans to...." is very simply & very literally Ruger-Code for "We won't talk about it."
The statement may be true, it may not be true.
They've said that numerous times over the years, and then followed up later on by introducing exactly what they had "no plans" to do.
One personal example is their 1911.
It was quite funny.
I asked my PR contact there (retired now) about the new 1911 a year before they brought it out & got the "Ruger has no plans" mantra.
This, while I knew damn well from other sources in the industry that Ruger was quietly working out vendor sources for some parts & processes to build a new 1911.
Essentially, it's just their fallback on projects they're not ready to announce yet, IF they already have something in the works.
Makes it hard to tell if they really have no plans, or if they're just keeping it under wraps.
Also, you can't ever go by what the first line of contact at Ruger says on questions like these.
The CS people who handle routine phonecalls & emails are rarely in the know & certainly not authorized to talk about un-released products before the official announcements even if they are.
Denis