Remington Arms preps for bankruptcy sale to Navajo Nation

NYPOST ^ | 6/26/2020 | Staff

[Alas Babylon!]

[JBW1949]

I had a Marlin 336 in .35 cal...Used it for deer and black bear...

[pt17]

After 11 years of the greatest gun sales boom in world history, you’ve got to think Remington has the worst management team in world history.

I'd take it a step higher and say they might have one of the worst executive boards in history.

[txeagle]

People ask how Remington could go bankrupt?

Most likely because Cerberus Capital Management, who acquired them, bled them dry and is now tossing the desiccated carcass on the side of the road...….

[ameribbean expat]

And the 870 Express which was the first shotgun for an awful lot of us.

[gandalftb]

Navajos are terribly beset by alcoholism and diabetes and most of all poverty.
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But likely, there is no more patriotic peoples anywhere.
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They are serious warriors, fine Marines. Hard to get to know. They are definitely the wrong people to meet at night.

[boycott]

How did they go bankrupt? The usual way - investment bankers / private equity got their claws in them and sucked them dry. In this case it was Cerberus.

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That’s what ole honorable Mitt Romney did in his early days with Baine Capital.

[kingu]

So if Native American tribes opened up Casinos on their land or Reservation as regular Laws did not apply, they used that loop hole as a money maker.

Indian Gaming Act enacted by Ronald Reagan authorized the casinos, prior to that bingo halls were permitted on federal land.

Now does their ownership and incorporated on their land give them exemptions to regular Laws? Hmmm

It vastly protects the assets from tort lawsuits where you must get the Navajo Nation's permission first to sue them. Like people randomly suing the gunmaker for whatever some whackjob did with the weapon.

[Skywise]

First casinos, now guns...

That just leaves alcohol and tobacco?

[kingu]

After 11 years of the greatest gun sales boom in world history, you’ve got to think Remington has the worst management team in world history.

Awful investments of retirement accounts, a couple bad contracts, and then whenever they went for financing, it was always at the top of the market and iron clad so refinancing debt wouldn't save them any money, just cost them more.

[9422WMR]

Tonto wantum hep big pile of guns.

[familyop]

Next thing ya know, they’ll be buying a firewater company! ;D

[Georgia Girl 2]

Rut Rho! Indian uprising on the horizon. 😆

[CurlyDave]

I think that the Sandy Hook litigation is the likely reason for bankruptcy. If the Navajo nation is smart (and I’m sure that their advisors are) the transaction will be structured to leave liability from prior litigation in the past. I used to be an investment banker and even after 25 years, I can think of at least two structural alternatives that would prevent any old litigation liability from attaching to the new owners. The legal status of an Indian tribe (taxes and other immunities) could make it very interesting.

Since the pious fiction is that the Navajo are a sovereign nation, this might make them immune from lawsuits.

[03A3]

How does a gun manufacturer go bankrupt in this environment?

Simple. Let the bean counters run the company for well over a decade (Cerberus) and build stuff no one wants and this happens. Everything I have bought from them in the last 10 years was a donor.

[Yo-Yo]

With the Remington they’re buying, there’s not a chance that they’ll find any.

There’s a reason why Remington is in Chapter 11, and it’s called the R51.

[Yo-Yo]

I have to drive 1.5 hours to find an AR for sale.

Palmetto State Armory. Delivered to your nearest FFL, or buy a stripped lower from your dealer and a kit from Palmetto delivered to your door.

[EEGator]

Thank you, I’ll check it out.

[TheConservativeBanker]

That might be in play for future litigation, but transaction structure can take care of current liabilities. Issues like taxation and the potential for immunity add some speculative opportunities.

[AnotherUnixGeek]

If a company which makes rifles and shotguns can’t stay in business now, when demand has never been higher, it must be breaking new ground in mismanagement.