buck460XVR
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Folks have said for years now that if Colt would bring back the Python it would sell like hotcakes. Apparently Colt doesn't believe them. At least in the sense that enough of them would sell to pay back upfront costs and make a profit for shareholders. That's what most gun manufacturers are looking at.....profit.
While folks always suggest something they themselves want, a few folks on a internet gun forum claiming they would buy something is not true market research, nor does it dictate what the general public wants. What the general public wants in a handgun, is something cheap and reliable. Build that and folks will flock to it. Ruger's little LCP is proof. Lately, it seems offering new calibers in old reliable platforms is a more sound idea than making a new off the wall platform that takes time for it to prove itself and the public to accept it.
While folks always suggest something they themselves want, a few folks on a internet gun forum claiming they would buy something is not true market research, nor does it dictate what the general public wants. What the general public wants in a handgun, is something cheap and reliable. Build that and folks will flock to it. Ruger's little LCP is proof. Lately, it seems offering new calibers in old reliable platforms is a more sound idea than making a new off the wall platform that takes time for it to prove itself and the public to accept it.