I think this is a scam. The owners have raped all the money out of Remington since acquiring it; it cant be sold with this debt. They are doing this to off load the debt and sell off the company. They also separated DPMS/Bushmaster/NEW/H&R from the corporate group before doing this.
Remington will go out, shed the debt, be sold to a holding company, then sold again to a gun manufacturer, and return in full force.... corporate shell game to defraud the debt holders
I agree completely with your assessment. Since being sold by Dupont way back, every owner since then has not shown any interest in actual investment into the company. Instead, they have cut and cut and cut until Remington is just a shell now. I think the quality problems are part self inflicted but mostly the fault of ownership. They have cut corners to generate cash and destroyed quality and moral along the way. Cerebus Capital is your typical LLC. Buy a company, strip it down to bare minimum, don't invest, and suck cash out of it until the company implodes......then sell it off in pieces.