From a recent (2 Dec 2025) La Grange newspaper article. For anyone interested:

"During the combined LaGrange Development Authority and Development Authority of LaGrange meeting for December, President Scott Malone gave an update on the Remington Arms project.

Malone said the arms manufacturing plant has been built and is nearly ready to be operational, but the company and the project have had issues.

“Remington is a startup,” Malone said, noting the company was bought out of bankruptcy and isn’t really the former gun behemoth other than in name only.

“They've had all kinds of issues and are still having issues. Really, it's about financing. There are still people that have to be paid,” Malone said.

The project is nearing completion and the company is still moving forward. The plant and headquarters have been built with furniture in place and much of the industrial equipment transferred over.

“All the furniture is in the corporate office. Now, all the equipment sat in place. It's not hooked up. They can't make anything yet. They don't have their [Certificate of Occupancy] and they owe some money to the city. They owe some money to some contractors that they'll not be able to pay until they close their next round of financing,” Malone said.

“I've said all along it’s a startup business. The odds are they're not going anywhere, but the odds are somebody else is going to be the owner,” Malone said, explaining he believes the current owner may have gotten into more than they anticipated.

Malone said early financing is often a struggle — even for major manufacturers.


“It's just the reality. I always remind that we forget what it was like for Kia those first three years, where people thought they weren't ever going to stay in business. We talked about it being a state prison and all these things. Then you look at where Kia is today, producing almost 60,000 cars a year of the top-quality product,” Malone said.

There are three groups separately, looking to take over as majority owner, 50-plus percent stake in the company, which would likely just shrink down the primary owner, Malone said, explaining the current owners bought the company out of bankruptcy for $13 million.

The good news is that when they get back up and running, there is demand for the product.

“The demand for the products is through the roof. They have almost $100 million of backorders. They’ve just got to make the product. [There’s] huge demand all over the world. They're still number one in the country for police departments for tactical shotguns,” Malone said.

Malone said the goal was for them to be back to production in January, but they're probably still about seven weeks out from being able to ramp up into production."

https://www.lagrangenews.com/n...y-struggles-8f652114

They could make some money if they start small and make 870 magazine caps, choke tubes, and replacemt magazines for 7600 and 7400.

Kind of curious how their level of quality is going to be, at least initially.

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All the furniture is in the corporate office. Now, all the equipment sat in place. It's not hooked up. They can't make anything yet.

Looks like they have their priorities in order.

Never again

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Originally posted by 229DAK:
Looks like they have their priorities in order.

My thought, exactly.

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Originally posted by preten2b:
They could make some money if they start small and make 870 magazine caps, choke tubes, and replacemt magazines for 7600 and 7400.

They might make more money just making replacement parts for all the firearms already out there. It's a need that nobody could fill better than the company with the patents. The customers would come looking for the supplier, rather than the other way around. They wouldn't
have to compete in an already full marketplace.

It wouldn't break my heart to acquire a few good 10-round magazines for my 742's.

Remington was America's oldest manufacturer of firearms, but they've been in decline for more than two decades and now they're gone. Whatever some corporation does with its corpse will not be worthy of consideration.

As sure as I'm typing this, someone will come along to lecture us that we need to support all American gun companies. This is true when it is practical to do so, but not when it means supporting a company being managed by corporate raiders who couldn't tell handguns from hashbrowns.

It's a business cycle. No one is on top forever. Ask IBM, Intel...

Hey Remington!

Bring back the 720.

And extractors for the 721, 722, and 725.
And maybe a Model 70 type safety

They should make me some mags for the 870 DM. I always thought the single stack 870 DM was the more elegant solution to the box magazine pump shotgun over the Mossberg's double stack magazine. Much lighter and slimmer.

What is the new REM going to manufacture in the shotgun realm that isn't already readily available from other MFG's?