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Just curios how big the company is, and what direction its heading? Seems everyone that tries your products loves em, what kind of growth do you see in the near and fare future?
I've always thought that LWRC and Robarm should get married. It would be a solid pairing for both organizations. What would suck is for Robarm to pull a magpul and sell out to some assbackwards outfit like Bushmaster.Sometimes i wish all these little guys would get together , and make one big American company like Colt once was.
Gun companies tend to keep info like this close to their chest. Doesnt matter if it is Robarms, LWRC or Colt. It's also meaningless to some degree. Made inhouse, or contracted, the QC and build standards are identical for any company worth anything.Some things like the forged lower and extruded upper surely are contracted out. The tooling is too costly. Probably final milling drilling, tapping etc in house. Any finishing (chrome, anodizing, etc) contracted out. Barrels are turned in house from blanks now days. Some parts are off the shelf, so you know they just order those (grips, screws, pins, flash hider, mag, etc) Springs? contracted out. Not sure about the bolt and carrier... I'd say in house. Stock parts... in house. How am I doing?
So really they do mostly the design, assembling and testing and most actual manufacturing is done by third party contracting. Interesting, I honestly had no clue. Always just assumed all gun companies where like the big guys just, well, not as big, with a big old tool shop with all the fixings that just spit out gun parts as fats as the engineers could hand the drawings off to the machinist. But unless your making like, thousands a year, that's not a very practical business set up huh?Some things like the forged lower and extruded upper surely are contracted out. The tooling is too costly. Probably final milling drilling, tapping etc in house. Any finishing (chrome, anodizing, etc) contracted out. Barrels are turned in house from blanks now days. Some parts are off the shelf, so you know they just order those (grips, screws, pins, flash hider, mag, etc) Springs? contracted out. Not sure about the bolt and carrier... I'd say in house. Stock parts... in house. How am I doing?
Oh, heh, that kinda makes sense doesn't it? :duh:Gun companies tend to keep info like this close to their chest. Doesnt matter if it is Robarms, LWRC or Colt. It's also meaningless to some degree. Made inhouse, or contracted, the QC and build standards are identical for any company worth anything.
For example, plenty of DPMS uppers contain forge marks that are also on Colt, but not by any means would I say they are the same.
Alex seems pretty picky, back when he posted, he would talk about rejecting parts that werent up to spec
Some things like the forged lower and extruded upper surely are contracted out. The tooling is too costly. Probably final milling drilling, tapping etc in house. Any finishing (chrome, anodizing, etc) contracted out. Barrels are turned in house from blanks now days. Some parts are off the shelf, so you know they just order those (grips, screws, pins, flash hider, mag, etc) Springs? contracted out. Not sure about the bolt and carrier... I'd say in house. Stock parts... in house. How am I doing?
And I believe Kimber.The only American Company doing it all from scratch is LRB ,they are the only ones still making their own receivers.