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With the departure of Bill Jr. I don’t think the current sr. thru middle management understood or cared a bit about the history…
Yaworski
Hawkeye
I understand to a degree, but I also believe no history = no soul. A company that doesn't know and appreciate its history is doomed because it doesn’t understand what it identify is to its customers.
Yaworski
Hawkeye
True but MBAs don't look at that.
Some of them do!
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really ??? to who? I want the 103 # 1 they have/had
who bought the library of guns?
GasGuzzler
Hawkeye
All that means Jerry Jones should have sold a long time ago. He already milked all the performance out of it. Oh wait ... he makes more off the name and performance doesn't matter. Same might be going on here. As far as MBAs go ... a lot of traditional American companies have been bought and stripped for resale in the last 18-24 months. Look at the automotive performance industry. And the buyers are foreign.
ChrisL
Single-Sixer
I've been to the Accokeek facility years ago......still there even though minimally active. I think Beretta keeps it there just to give Maryland the middle finger.....rightfully so.
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Once a company goes public, the only thoughts are making a profit this quarter. No long term plan.
Often they sacrifice the big picture just to make a profit this quarter. Worry about next quarter when it comes
Often they sacrifice the big picture just to make a profit this quarter. Worry about next quarter when it comes
Yaworski
Hawkeye
Amen, brother. Amen!
Believe over the past years they did sell firearms out of the Newport Engineering area, but never saw anything come out of Southport, but you never know! Be interesting to see information on what guns sold from Southport.
My understanding was the guns were sold to employees, connected friends and distributors (probably for their principals/senior employees) i doubt any will make it out to the general public.
Hondo44
Hawkeye
Firearms manufacturing has been deserting anti-gun, high cost Conn and Mass. for years. I'm surprised Ruger stayed in Southport this long.
contender
Ruger Guru
"Once a company goes public, the only thoughts are making a profit this quarter. No long term plan."
Bill Ruger went public in 1969 if my memory is correct. It wasn't until AFTER Bill passed that we saw a big slump in stock values. That was almost 40 years. But for the time Bill was there,, the company grew a LOT, as did the value of it AND the stock.
Bill Ruger went public in 1969 if my memory is correct. It wasn't until AFTER Bill passed that we saw a big slump in stock values. That was almost 40 years. But for the time Bill was there,, the company grew a LOT, as did the value of it AND the stock.
GasGuzzler
Hawkeye
Hate to say it but they didn't and now for sure don't make anything at all I have to have. ANYTHING Ruger (and most others) make I would actually buy is not new ... not even close. SO I don't think this "Scare" bothers me. Selfish I know.
The problem is the majority of the younger generation is not interested in guns, shooting, hunting, fishing, working on cars, making things yourself, tools, etc etc etc. . Yeah, some sales for "self protection" but the cheaper the better for this. It is slowly ebbing away
1gunsnotenough
Hunter
The era of traditions, loyalty and Americana is over in business in general. For a long time it's been "not what you did for me yesterday but what are you doing today".
rem58sport
Bearcat
One needs to look in other areas for change in the younger generations and there is change. Gen Z'ers are gravitating to the old school trades for instance. There is a huge re-interest in sewing, for recreation, profit and creativity. You can't buy a house on minimum wage but you can buy a truck.
What no one on the national stage is speaking to is, the world has changed. There is no going back. There is no bringing manufacturing back to the US at the level it once was, ever. Trying to bolster up the American Dream as it once was is a fantasy to get votes.
Beretta had a plant in Maryland, building the 9mm for the Services, till politics drove them out
Yaworski
Hawkeye
So that's why my Beretta 92D says "Accokeek, Md" on the slide. Thanks.
bigbillyboy
Hunter
I tend to feel that way as well , but I going to go the "wait and see .
Terry Morgan
Single-Sixer
If manufacturing came back to the US, the products would be more expensive, maybe a lot more expensive.
Huskerguy72
Single-Sixer
While it is always fashionable to blame the MBA, bean counters and profits, there is a greater reality at play.
The number of new firearms entering the market is staggering. They come from the Philippines, Turkey, Checz Republic and others by the ship loads. US labor is more expensive along with everything else including insurance. The number of knock off pistols is mind boggling when I look at stores.
Everyone wants things the way they used to be when Ruger came out with 3 or 4 new offerings. It is a different world and a very competitive one. It ain’t going back to the way it used to be.
The number of new firearms entering the market is staggering. They come from the Philippines, Turkey, Checz Republic and others by the ship loads. US labor is more expensive along with everything else including insurance. The number of knock off pistols is mind boggling when I look at stores.
Everyone wants things the way they used to be when Ruger came out with 3 or 4 new offerings. It is a different world and a very competitive one. It ain’t going back to the way it used to be.
Same reason buzzards rip open anything laying beside the road.I just don't understand that. Why someone would take a perfectly good company and pretty much wipe it out.
OTOH maybe that's what the Anderson people felt like.
When you become a “me, too” manufacturer, you are more exposed to the whims of the consumer and the ups and downs of the firearms market place.
Ruger has become a “me, too” company….
Ruger has become a “me, too” company….
Agreed. 
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