Found this to be rather interesting and sad....

BUSHMASTER & THOMPSON CENTER CLOSING FACTORIES

It is very sad...a friend of our's worked at the Thompson Center facility and it is definately a down holiday for them.

The Bushmaster announcement in the papers up here was just as pitiful. The main item pointed out about Bushmaster was how they manufactured the "Beltway Sniper" gun....

What would this do for the value of their guns?

The value of the guns wont change they are still making them. It sucks for the people that work for the factories. They are going to make them all in the Remington plant in New York.

Sad to see but that is the way of business these days. I hope Remington doesn't do such with Dakota Arms since they bought them.

S&W bought TC saying they wanted to get into the rifle business and wanted a good barrel maker for their then new bolt action rifle, which I doubt they have sold as many of as they have the ICON. IF the reports were true the S&W purchase actually delayed the initial ICON delivery.

Sounds to me those two companies taking over Remington and S&W needed to find some way to consolidate efforts. I sorta figured there would be something happen before now, when those groups bought control. I really look for T/C to become a more custom order company in the future, and Bushmaster may go out all together if S&W's M&P 15 sales don't pick up! Of course they could shut off the M&P, and stay only with Bushmaster! Marlin will probably survive, but only in the lever-action guns.

And of course, we don't how much OBAMACARE has affected this decision too?!?!?!?