What did Colt replace it's sales with when they stopped revolver manufacture?
Since then they've only half successfully sold ar and 1911s to civilians. Models which they didn't even have a hand in designing. You can argue that they are quality guns but damn......they missed the ball on designing and producing new stuff to help stay out of bankruptcy
The company has barely survived in the last 20 years only because of gov contracts and still filed bankruptcy even with those contracts.
Yet the have never “left the civilian market so many times” as you stated in your original post
Has colt had financial issues? Yup
From poor management? Possibly
From the unions? Absolutely
From inferior products? Not at all
But as this conversation started, they have yet to “pull out of the civilian market”