I was in a neighborhood gun shop a couple of days ago. (This is the same place I purchased my Bushmaster Shorty almost 2 years ago, but not my "regular" gun shop.) I was admiring the AR's up on the wall and thinking, "Clearly, I need another one", when I overheard a conversation between the proprietor and another potential customer. (NOTE: This post is not meant to offend or flame Colt AR owner's!)
Anyway, the owner of the shop was saying that he no longer intended to order any Colt AR's as stock to put up on the wall. Shocked, I asked why? He told both me and the other customer that the Colt AR's had changed. The Colts had gone down in quality. Then he said something about "outsourcing" and giving contracts to the lowest bidder (some in Mexico) and finally that the last few Colt AR's that he had gotten in had such a gap between the upper and the lower that he could fold his business card three times and it would still pass through the gap. I then examined a few of the Colt AR's and remarked that they looked great to me. He told me that those were from an older order, before the change in quality. I just wanted to know if anyone else had heard anything like this.
Thanks,
Kentucky Rifle