Hoot wrote:Lets not get too threatened by the fact that the big fish eat the little fish. It's the nature of business. A lot of the smaller fish have been conglomerated by Battenfield Technologies as well. Companies who were once independent small businesses like Caldwell, Tipton, Wheeler Engineering, Frankford Arsenal, Fajen, PAST, Adams & Bennett, Miles Gilbert and Lockdown. These were companies who for whatever reason, could not weather the economic downturn of late, long enough to catch the current wave of feeding frenzy we are seeing and regain their footing. There's no conspiracy, unless you consider capitalism to be conspiratorial. I'm sure other fish will fall prey in the years to come, not as a result of some nefarious conspiracy. Just the love of profit taking.
Look at the spawning and consumption of electronic industries. You can't open up the newspaper without reading of some hardware or software company emerging and an equal number being gobbled up. It's like the predator vs prey relationship. Neither can exist without the other.
In the case of many firearms product companies. Many sprung up in the 20th century because a single person had an idea and a dream to go with it. They lived their generation and produced prodigy who were not interested in the work necessary to keep the family business going, for whatever reason. Maybe it was so successful and left enough of a legacy that those kids were content in spending off that legacy and the hell with what became of the company. It happens. Some times, their last harvest is selling the business name, assets or both for what some bigger fish is willing to pay to get rid of their competition. It happens. It's all not bleak. Some children of industry greats continue on in their parent's shoes. Some times individuals who believe strongly in the particular product choose to take up the flag and battle onward, trying to stay ahead of, or at least away from the gaze of the bigger fish.
Hoot
Very-Very, well said..
Two things, and sometimes, more often then not, usually the conglomerated companies become much better, at what they do. Do you think that the Freedom Group is into all of this, to NOT make a profit, think again. All of their companies are growing and getting better. You may not like some aspect or other, but keep in mind, they are operating in the middle of a very bad Depression and barely holding their heads above the water. If the Freedom Group actually does fail, that will be the darkest day in the lives of Gun Owners, and a great day for the Anti's.
I see some comments a bout George Soros. It reminds me that sometimes, we in the shooting fraternity, are our own worst enemies. Case in point. .."you are not a true Hunter, because you don't hunt with a...", get it? We are mere men a as such we tend to demonize things we don't want to understand, and I do mean "We", for I too suffer from just such an affliction and struggle to keep it under check.
We do have enemies in the gun world and this from the inside, Obama-Round 2 (assuming he is reelected), plans on actual confiscation, a-la-Canda-style (he loves the various Canadian Models), using the Executive Order (You may think this is not being considered, Big-Time? Then call the ILA, I bet they'll confirm it to be true, but my intel does not come from the NRA). But, I digress.. the Soros thing is not one of our Bug-a-Boo's, check this out..
http://www.snopes.com/politics/guns/freedom.asp ..
Much to consider here, but Hoot is correct and so am I..
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