You have quite an active imagination. The LIKELY scenario is Ruger is "freshening up" their product line -- as manufacturers of any product often do -- by removing and replacing chamberings and versions that don't produce certain sales volumes and making room in their product line to avoid over-saturating the market. (Forty versions of the No. 1 would be nice, but not likely to happen.) It's also quite likely that a distributor with a large inventory of No. 1s would stand to gain if a rumor of the No. 1's demise gained legs on an internet message board.
