The largest privately owned Australian company and Southern Hemisphere firearms juggernaut Nioa has purchased Barrett Firearms Manufacturing outright. Ronnie and Chris Barrett both to stay on in and advisory capacity for the immediate future. Current President and COO promoted to CEO and President respectively.  

https://barrett.net/2023/01/16...er-barrett-firearms/

https://sporting.nioa.com.au/l...rer-barrett-firearms

How does that work when the are illegal?

"prestigious ISO 9001:2015 certification"


lol absolutely meaningless....


I live right up the road from Barrett. Maybe we will see some Aussies start to show up in town.

thats a terrible turn of events

we have 320 million people in this country, and we couldn't find an American to buy it?

Is this like if China were to buy a newspaper company?

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Originally posted by SIG4EVA:
How does that work when the are illegal?

They aren’t moving the company to Australia.

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Originally posted by Black92LX:

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Originally posted by SIG4EVA:
How does that work when the are illegal?

They aren’t moving the company to Australia.

So, the Aussies don't like guns, but they don't have any issue with selling them for a profit? Right.

How ironic. Maybe the Aussies can smuggle a few hundred back. For the wallabies and all.

Hear they got a real problem over there.

SHOT show opens tomorrow, will be interesting to hear the discussions.

Selling your company to a one from one of the most firearm restrictive countries in the world. Must have gotten an offer they couldn't refuse.

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Originally posted by Expert308:

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Originally posted by Black92LX:

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Originally posted by SIG4EVA:
How does that work when the are illegal?

They aren’t moving the company to Australia.

So, the Aussies don't like guns, but they don't have any issue with selling them for a profit? Right.

Not so. The Australian GOVERNMENT don't like guns. A bit like the US Government at the moment....

The next version will be a bullpup fed from an inverted top-mounted magazine and will feature bottom ejection.

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So, the Aussies don't like guns, but they don't have any issue with selling them for a profit? Right.

Works for Hollyweird.

RMD

Maybe they bought it because they can play here.

Gradually move everything here but paper pushers.

Just a guess, but that is what I would do.

Any bets on how long before it's ok to sell to and offer support for products owned by commiefornia agencies.

Crikey!

Well, nothing bad happened to S&W when the Brits bought that company.

Did it?

Perhaps it's an opportunity for them to exit Australia, they may fear that the government shuts down gun manufacturing or restricts and taxes it to death so they need a place to land.

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Originally posted by Sig2340:

The next version will be a bullpup fed from an inverted top-mounted magazine and will feature bottom ejection.

The rifling spins the bullet anti-clockwise.

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Originally posted by HRK:
Perhaps it's an opportunity for them to exit Australia, they may fear that the government shuts down gun manufacturing or restricts and taxes it to death so they need a place to land.

This is a good point HRK. I hope it is correct. Barrett doesn’t strike me as the kind of person who would sell the company to people who hate guns. It is a mistake to assume all Aussies hate guns.

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Originally posted by stickman428:

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Originally posted by HRK:
Perhaps it's an opportunity for them to exit Australia, they may fear that the government shuts down gun manufacturing or restricts and taxes it to death so they need a place to land.

This is a good point HRK. I hope it is correct. Barrett doesn’t strike me as the kind of person who would sell the company to people who hate guns. It is a mistake to assume all Aussies hate guns.

The article mentions they already have plans to expand the TN facility.