Windham Weaponry is kill!
>Unable to meet loan obligations.
>Open through this evening 12 Sep, 2023.
>Going up for auction / full liquidation.
What are the implications? Who is going to buy them out?
Windham Weaponry is Kill!
Windham Weaponry is kill!
>Unable to meet loan obligations.
>Open through this evening 12 Sep, 2023.
>Going up for auction / full liquidation.
What are the implications? Who is going to buy them out?
>What are the implications
Some Mainers are sadly out of a job. That's about it
Sadly this is what happens when your main market is a dying out generation.
First ar I ever bought was a WW in 2019, I was still in hs, still own it probably 6k rounds through it.
Shame though they made good stuff, should have advertised more
Shame there gonna go under
They had a solid product but did not advertise enough. I never saw any of the guntoobers shilling their stuff. Given how the retro rifle made a big comeback and PSA can't keep their stuff in stock Windham had no excuse. They just needed one of those retards to run around with their dissy and it would have printed money.
Man. WW's retro rifle was going to be the next gun I bought but it was never in stock when I could afford it.
MAC used to shill them, but does anybody under 30 even take him seriously?
He's a POS scalper so they shouldn't.
WW had several flaws:
-Almost complete lack of marketing, most people didn't know who they were in a market flooded with AR-15 centric companies
-Even with their lack of marketing their rifle offerings were rather dated. Seriously go look at what they had and you'll see they were basically stuck in like 2008-2012 with their offerings.
-They failed to appeal to anyone with their prices domestically given PSA is here, which given what I can see of WW most of their business probably came from shipping internationally which was probably in fierce competition with Norinco.
Its a shame though, I always thought it was admirable how the old Bushmaster employees rallied around WW to revive some of that legacy.
tl;dr they failed to tell the consumer they existed and even those who did know they existed they failed offer them a modern or at least an affordable product.
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Hard to stay in business like that. The budget market surely killed them. Their prices were insane for what they offered.
>$555.00 for a basic bitch carbine upper
Yea, no. You get an entire rifle for less at PSA. I have no doubt their products were very decent but you can't do that shit these days.
>$415 for carbine upper
>No, it only comes in the 1:9 twist rate
>Oh, you want the bcg and CH?
>That'll be an extra $145, plus tip
lmao fuck them
Nothing wrong with 1:9 when we all know poorfags are only shooting 55gr 223 anyway.
55 grain is fine. You can get 223 hollowpoints and do major damage instead of zipping through. If you want armor piercing go with a 308. Fals are pretty reasonably priced considering what you get.
Old boomer company with outdated and overpriced ARs, good riddance.
Personally I liked their barrels. Have them on a couple uppers I built.
Did they actually make AR components, especially the barrel?
What are the chances the employees form a new company?
Windham was already the former Bushmaster owned by Richard Dyke.
anything that is good dies in this shithole state, I'm not surprised windham went out of business. the sooner this place gets annexed by canada the better
>t. mainer
Fuck canada, but other than that i agree woth you.
Both of my ARs were made by these guys, i have an original Bushmaster XM15 and an m4 made of WW parts.
How the fuck do you go bankrupt selling guns in the past 4 years?
12 years ago….2011…Obongo is in the White House, and everyone is buying so as to be grandfathered when the inevitable bullshit gets passed.
That was 5 years until Trump Time. Orange Man could best be described as “squishy” on the 2A.
Then we had the Coof for two years and broz was buying guns like they wuz losing their fucking minds.
The FAG goes tits-up, taking Bushmasterbater and Phlegmington with it. Windham was still a marquee among the boutique AR-15Tards.
Windham must have been run by certified imbeciles not to be able to make bank.
Or this is a JooScam to stick Maine with the tab. The tax holiday to “keep the jobs” ran out or something, and Schlomo is now taking the bigness and heading for Abalama.
>How the fuck do you go bankrupt selling guns in the past 4 years?
By offering items nobody wants.
>By offering items nobody wants.
at prices way over their market value.
That's just the nail in the casket.
They could have been offering the stuff cheaply, but the market for what they were selling was all but saturated.
They should have looked into making retro shit, or something, other than "Tacticool. Just like everyone else".
They did have retro shit but they didn't advertise it properly and they didn't push the right skus. They had an A1 and A2 well before PSA did but most people didn't know about them and they weren't all that "correct". They were also one of the few to have a factory dissy but it was only with a flat top upper, for some reason. The parts and potential was there. But they just didn't execute.
LOL. Selling 'wrong' retro shit is worse than not having any at all. A lot of the buyers are anal-retentive fudds who will moan if a forge mark is off.
Shitty advertising is the lacquer, on the casket.
They were obviously of the opinion that the market was stupid, and would keep buying the same old shit. That is why they likely did not push some of the more interesting/esoteric items.
The gun business sucks, because if you do not have an edge on something, you're fucked. Nobody is going to sped more for "good enough". And really, that is all WW was offering.
>best course of action for a full liquidation which should happen within the next month or so
will this be worth keeping tabs on? or are these things corporate auctions in name only now?
For the longest time all they ever offered were carbine length gas 16" rifles and I haven't been back since. It's a sad story but this liquidation was completely self-inflicted.