You know I was thinking about this rifle, and I agree that it is unacceptable, but as someone who has started accumulating "Hartford Horsies" I wonder if this wouldn't be a neat rifle in a Colt collection For better or worse, it looks like Colt produces this sort of thing, and having that example is just part of the story of the company.
It's a pipe dream but I wish a management group could get together and start a crowdfunding campaign or something to buy Colt and restore it to the quality name it used to be. This kind of crap and licensing the name to crappy products just ain't right. They would do better in the long run to focus on quality and proffer themselves as holders of the TDP. Then they could make it comfortably with consumer sales when government contracts fall through.
Edited for grammar and shit.