Remington's product quality went way south soon after the acquisition and hasn't really recovered. When you have a very traditional market for your products (m

Remington's product quality went way south soon after the acquisition and hasn't really recovered. When you have a very traditional market for your products (many firearms designs are decades old), those products are expensive, and potentially designed to save your life or at minimum contain tens of thousands of PSI inches from your face, losing your reputation for quality is a death sentence, and due to the capital costs, you're unlikely to be able to squeeze out cash by burning your reputation.