Olympic Arms Closing

[DucatiRon]

Just got an email that Olympic Arms is closing at the end of Febuary. If you need parts better buy them now.

[jakebrake]

thought they closed a few years back.

[sota]

my immediate thought was "again?"

[eagleclaw]

They won the gold medal in making junk.

[Hodgie]

They won the gold medal in making junk.

Pretty much.

[MOUNTAINORACLE]

Didn't they buy out Safari Arms and few years ago?

[HKusp 45]

Who?

[39flathead]

Who?

Olympic actually made a few interesting guns.
Their 1911 Westerner with the color case hardened slide is one I always wanted to get.

They were one of the first to offer pistol caliber ARs like .45 and 10mm and they made ARs in WSM calibers and iirc they had a .30 Carbine AR.

I used a PCR rifle for matches back during the Clinton ban.

Some of their stuff was shit, but thats almost par for the course for any company isn't it?

[nfafan]

Olympic actually made a few interesting guns.
Their 1911 Westerner with the color case hardened slide is one I always wanted to get.

They were one of the first to offer pistol caliber ARs like .45 and 10mm and they made ARs in WSM calibers and iirc they had a .30 Carbine AR.

I used a PCR rifle for matches back during the Clinton ban.

Some of their stuff was shit, but thats almost par for the course for any company isn't it?

Pretty sure they were the first to make a forged AR receiver too.
They also hold the record for the longest continuously-in-production-AR-mfgr when you take into account Colt's "PC" abandonment of the AR market for a bit in the 90's.
Somebody had traded-in a SUM-barrelled Oly A2 rifle at the defunct Gander in Moon and it was going for a song. By the time I realized what it was for the price and went back the next day - gonzo...
Oh well, shit happens.

[Gunsnwater]

Pretty sure they were the first to make a forged AR receiver too.
They also hold the record for the longest continuously-in-production-AR-mfgr when you take into account Colt's "PC" abandonment of the AR market for a bit in the 90's.
Somebody had traded-in a SUM-barrelled Oly A2 rifle at the defunct Gander in Moon and it was going for a song. By the time I realized what it was for the price and went back the next day - gonzo...
Oh well, shit happens.

The AR recievers were always forged, aftermarket made cast and milled.