ETA: Looks like Gunbroker might be a good source right now.
I have, as of late, been trying to keep gun posts limited to Fridays but sometimes stuff occurs that, I think, should be brought to the attention of the fanbase as soon as possible. So….
Something funny is going on at Remington. (H/T to ,Rawles over at SurvivalBlog for posting a link that brought it to my attention.)
Succinctly, it appears, that Remington is ..closing? Reogranzing? Consolidating? …several of it’s acquired companies. Notably DPMS, Bushmaster, and TAPCO. The AR market is already so heavy that the loss of Bushy and DPMS can’t be lamented too loudly but TAPCO….
TAPCO is the company that is meme-famous being able to provide you with $600 worth of parts to turn your $200 SKS into a pale imitation of a $400 AK. Cheesey stocks, geegaws of questionable utility, and that sort of thing. BUT….TAPCO makes one of the very few aftermarket Mini-14 magazines that work and that I recommend. If TAPCO is indeed being put down then the future of reliable aftermarket Mini mags becomes …well…what it was ten years ago. I already went to several of my vendors and they have all their TAPCO mags marked as ‘closeout’ and….out of stock. Writing is on the wall.
Maybe it’s just a reorganization. Maybe it’s just Remington working on new websites. But it appears that there is a disruption going on that Mini-14 owners may want to get ahead of.
Thanks for the heads up. I just passed this on to a friend who still has a Mini 14.
can’t say ref tapco but bushmaster and dpms has been selling off parts stock to discounters like cdnn in the last few weeks.
Ah…the puzzle pieces start to fit.
Brownells already lists the Tapco Mini 14 mags as “discontinued”.
I guess that the parent company has raped all the money they can from Tapco and DPMS, so it’s time to cut them loose—
I wonder of they’re dumping bushmaster to do an end run around that nagging lawsuit.
Or— they are kneeling to the leftist’s to get rid of “high capacity” mags and evil black guns—
That’s my guess
Ahh, not a big fan of the Mini 14 what with it’s proprietary mags and all, even though Tapco made adequate offerings. Tapco did make a very nice folding stock for the AK which works surprisingly well on my WASR. Very comfortable to shoot which very much surprised me. Bought it to make the AK into a back packable SHTF rifle. So that would be a loss if they folded. And the price was right also. Under 50.00 at the time I bought.
Remington’s corporate management is working very hard to make the company commit suicide, and get rid of that icky gun company. The biggest tell was buying competitors, in order to rub them off the map. Then substituting pounds of plastic for formerly long-wearing metal parts, to save a few pennies per weapon.
The underlings at the company may not know that plan, but you should.
When you can’t spot the sucker at the poker game, it’s you.