Is DPMS Still In Business?

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Remington Outdoor Company informed RSR at the SHOT Show that they will be focusing on their core hunting and shooting brands – AAC, Barnes, Marlin and Remington. Bushmaster, DPMS, StormLake Barrels and Tapco will no longer be produced, with the exception of the Bushmaster BA50.

DPMS (who sold parts to many AR15 companies) is gone.

Bushmaster is gone, including the ACR and the full Bushmaster product line other than the .50 Cal bolt gun.

Tapco is gone (millions of SKSs and cheap AR15s sighed in relief).

StormLake Barrels is gone.

One thing many might not know is that Freedom Group came in and bought the largest manufacturer of AR15 uppers and lowers, LAR Grizzly, in 2012. LAR provided most of the forged receivers to Bushmaster, DPMS, and a laundry list of major AR15 companies up until that time. Freedom Group shuttered the doors of the company after laying everyone off, then combined DPMS and Bushmaster under control of the Remington brand name, shut down the Bushmaster facility in Maine, and moved DPMS down to Huntsville Alabama.

This was something I always suspected Remington would do in the same way they did LAR.

It will be interesting to see how the market responds to these developments.