Remington to resume production

loc n load · Feb 4, 2021

According to the story in NRA/ Shooting Illustrated, Roundhill group (who purchased Rem Arms) has received their FFL and according to Richmond Italia ( roundhill partner) the company will resume production March 1st with 200 employees initially recalled.
The first firearm to be produced will be the Remington 870.
Hopefully this will be a new and successful restart of an American old line gun maker.

jeffrefrig · Feb 4, 2021

I wish them good luck, and, I'm glad to see the start of rehiring the old employees; possibly more can be hired back if company is successful. It can get real confusing (for me, anyway) who owns or controls what gun or ammo manufacturer/brand. You almost need one of those "family tree" type charts for a particular firearm's ownership; kinda like when you look up a certain music band, one of those year to year charts with who was playing in the band at a given time.
I hope the employees are hired back at competitive wages, also.

Puller · Feb 4, 2021

I've already seen it repeated that this will make JM marked Remington 870's more valuable on the collector market.

Oldsalt66 · Feb 4, 2021

That’s great news and I wish them luck.

moosedog · Feb 4, 2021

I hope the quality issues are resolved. I hate to see a once great American gun company go thru these changes.

Babysitr · Feb 4, 2021

good luck Remington! we're pulling for you....Deer rifles and duck guns and all their M700,870,1187 varieties!

robertrwalsh · Feb 4, 2021

I think they are smart restarting with a basic "meat and potatoes" product like the 870. If they can maintain good quality control it will help them get the ball rolling.

CH4 · Feb 4, 2021

I am confident people will buy every 870 they can make, especially the Tac 14.

Mdclinks · Feb 4, 2021

For Remington to succeed they will need to take their legacy products and upgrade them. The 870 needs to be on par with the other pump modern pump shotguns of the world; lighter, smoother, better finish at the price point they currently at. They need to introduce an auto loading shotgun that is on par with Mossberg. The V3 was too expensive for a 3” chambered semi functional semi auto. The Versamax was a decent design but wasn’t going to command the same money as Browning, Franchi, Beretta, Benelli. Remington needs to take a serious look at other metal finishes as their recent products rusted just by looking at them. Hell half the parkerized guns I received had a good amount of surface rust when we got them directly from the factory.

Scottrh2 · Feb 4, 2021

Puller said:
I've already seen it repeated that this will make JM marked Remington 870's more valuable on the collector market.

What on earth is a “JM marked REM 870”? JM marked Marlin rifles seem to bring higher prices than Remington made Marlins but why there would be a JM marked 870 is beyond me.

ken158 · Feb 4, 2021

Hold off on the guns and make some primers! Seriously, Vista Outdoors bought the ammo and accessories part of Remington so hopefully they will get things cranking soon...

rosewood · Feb 4, 2021

Puller said:
I've already seen it repeated that this will make JM marked Remington 870's more valuable on the collector market.

They need to hire JM back

Oh, wait, Ruger will be the ones hiring him since they bought the Marlin arm.

Rosewood

rosewood · Feb 4, 2021

ken158 said:
Hold off on the guns and make some primers!

Different company now.

Since this company is only guns, maybe they will focus on guns and bring the quality back to where it once was.

Rosewood

Puller · Feb 4, 2021

Scottrh2 said:
What on earth is a “JM marked REM 870”? JM marked Marlin rifles seem to bring higher prices than Remington made Marlins but why there would be a JM marked 870 is beyond me.

Sorry, it was a joke. I'm sure the Marlin "JM purist" caught it.

I predict there come a time when REM marked Marlins will be the one's bringing the premium.

Mike SC Hunter · Feb 4, 2021

Mdclinks said:
For Remington to succeed they will need to take their legacy products and upgrade them. The 870 needs to be on par with the other pump modern pump shotguns of the world; lighter, smoother, better finish at the price point they currently at. They need to introduce an auto loading shotgun that is on par with Mossberg. The V3 was too expensive for a 3” chambered semi functional semi auto. The Versamax was a decent design but wasn’t going to command the same money as Browning, Franchi, Beretta, Benelli. Remington needs to take a serious look at other metal finishes as their recent products rusted just by looking at them. Hell half the parkerized guns I received had a good amount of surface rust when we got them directly from the factory.

They need to make NOTHING on par with a Mossberg.

bushmaster1313 · Feb 4, 2021

Mdclinks said:
They need to introduce an auto loading shotgun that is on par with Mossberg.

Way back when, Remington made pump shotguns on par with a Winchester 21:

Top:___ Winchester 21
Bottom: Remington 17

Farmer17 · Feb 4, 2021

The 1187 was great auto-loading shotgun for 479 bucks which is what local Walmarts were selling them for about a year ago.

Mike SC Hunter · Feb 5, 2021

Reading elsewhere. It stated the 870 was the first gun going back into production.

GaryHK · Feb 5, 2021

Mike said:
Reading elsewhere. It stated the 870 was the first gun going back into production.

Makes sense. Smoothbore a lot easier to work out the kinks/teething issues than rifled barrels.

The Norseman · Feb 5, 2021

Shotgun News

This is great News. Now, Remington just has to upgrade their machinery,
keep to the Basics (a nice Shotgun and a nice Rifle for now),
and Innovate.

Remington Forever!

Remington to resume production

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