Not sure this is positive

The last time S&W bought a rifle company they buried it.

https://www.guns.com/news/2026/10/21/smith-wesson-buys-savage-arms?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAcGRvZgRzcnRjBmFwcF9pZA80MDk5NjI2MjMwODU2MDkAAR5sqGk0dU8WVT9bT-I3grqinW7QuGwblZkvhzNGgTksqTJ2KjRfzEDx4A1rag_aem_8OjmDnPDOgrAMM0o5Vh1MQ

Interesting. I mean, surely Savage couldn’t get WORSE, right?

Interesting- if anything I thought maybe Rossi would on there target list as Rossi is building all of S&W’s lever guns.

Taurus isn’t going to let go of Rossi.

I haven’t owned a Savage since the late 2000s, but I really had no problems with it other than that silly accutrigger

$160 million purchase price shows there were some problems. IMO

It’s weird that the group of mostly employees bought it from Vista Outdoors for 170 mil, held it for 7 years then sold it for 160 mil. Maybe Smith can breathe new life. A modern iteration of the 99, dump the Turkish throw away scatterguns, improve the bolt actions and streamline the rimfire offerings. And leave the rimfire leaver actions for Henry and Rossi.