We may never know why the honchos at Colt could not ride the gun sales wave of the last few years (OK, stupidity is a valid reason) but they can come out of the basement if they only stop and listen (really listen) to the gun people.

First the stripped AR rifles:

Good idea executed late. Still keep pushing it.

Second: a GI 1911 with modern sights. Are you gonna tell me that people would not riot to get a 1911 with the pony engraved on the side? And make it reliable as JMB intended, don’t fall for the ultra accuracy BS that makes them prone to failure.

Third: Embrace the Plastic Fantastic. Time for you to at least join the late 20th Century. A striker fired pistol with a hint of the looks of a 1911 would sell like crazy. Have 3 sizes: Full, Officer and Defender. Start with 9mm and then work your way to .45 ACP.

Fourth and I am going to catch hell for this: Forget the revolvers for now. Sorry but it is a small and noisy minority who claim for them and they will not bring enough cash. Plus God forbid your first batch of Pythons suck and the word gets out, you will never recover.

And that is my uninformed opinion.

Most Gun Aficionados will agree that the shootout outside the bank in the movie Heat is, if not the best, one of the best of all times. Director Michael Mann sends his actors to train with the real stuff and I mean train not lollygagging and crotch-grabbing in the range.

It shows in the film quite well.

A third woman charged in a violent home invasion in Ensley last month is now in custody.Amelia Kennedy, 19, was arrested June 11, according to court records. She is being held in the Jefferson County Jail with bond set at $517,000. Chelsea Zuagar, 23 and Ariel Murray, 23, were already in custody.

Source: Masked woman sought in violent home invasion now in custody | AL.com

Home Invasion by females have been appearing more and more in my notifications. Not an impressive number just yet, but you could say feminism did break that particular glass ceiling. And they know what buttons to push too.

The holdup happened in the early morning hours of May 20 in the 2200 block of 25th Street Ensley. Police at the time said they were told three black females knocked on the door, and forced their way inside once the door was opened.

Early morning, imagine breakfast time with daylight. Three women knock on the door? That can’t be a home invasion! That happens only at night and done by brutish men, right?

You just simply do not know what the bad guy/gal looks like. Prepare accordingly.

QUESTION: Okay. So these rules would not apply to private citizens, only to manufacturers – and only to highly sensitive technical details? Is that —
MR RATHKE: They apply to the technical data and detailed schematics for the production of defense articles.
QUESTION: So they don’t apply to private citizens.
MR RATHKE: Well, they apply to anything that relates to those areas of subject matter, whether discussed by —
QUESTION: Okay. Well, the concern that had been raised by the Second Amendment groups is somehow this is going to restrict or stop or ban discussions about gun – about firearms —
MR RATHKE: Well, I go back to the – also the point that general descriptions – that is general, not technical and detailed ones – general descriptions or public discussions and imagery of defense articles would – have never been subject to these regulations and wouldn’t —

Source: Department of State Comments on ITAR Rule Changes | Shall Not Be Questioned

Not buying. They get to define what is general descriptions and technical data and that can change with a memo on a Friday afternoon at 4:30PM and the Feds can be rather flexible about definitions.

Paper clips, shoe laces, rubber washers and crazy glue….

In a study released Thursday in the American Journal of Public Health, they estimate that the law reduced gun homicides by 40 percent between 1996 and 2005. That’s 296 lives saved in 10 years

Source: Gun killings fell by 40 percent after Connecticut passed this law – The Washington Post

You see! UBC works! We told you that for a long time! Not like in Florida where we don’t have Universal Background Checks and the murder rate only dropped almost 40% since 1996…. wait, How’s that possible?

Well, it does not matter, Universal Background Checks will surely protect out kids against crazy people getting their hands on those terrible “assault weapons.” That way we can avoid massacres like Sandy Hook Elementary in Connecticut… you know what? Forget it.

Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Policy and Research, a Joyce Foundation funded front “dedicated to reducing gun violence by providing information on firearm injuries and gun policy; by developing, analyzing, and evaluating strategies to prevent firearm injuries; and by conducting public health and legal research to identify gun policy needs” and part and parcel of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

Do I need say more?

UPDATE: Hot Air has a very detailed analysis of the article.

Gun maker Colt Defense LLC plans to file for chapter 11 bankruptcy-court protection by Monday, according to people familiar with the matter, amid business-execution issues and a heavy debt burden.

Source: Colt Defense to File for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy Protection by Monday – WSJ

And back in November I was taken to task because I dared to ask how come one of the great names in firearms could get itself in so much financial debt when even pot metal guns were flying off the shelves. Apparently the situation was as bad as everybody but the experts thought.

Now think about it, two gun companies are on bankruptcy in 2015 and for the same reason: They did not pay attention to their customers.

Colt and Armatix, sitting on a tree…