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DPMS was in the Remington Portfolio.
Anyone know what happened...
We're they sold, retained, shut down..

PSA bought them.

Dpms and Bushmaster both swallowed by Remington and buried by Cerebus who is /was headed by some marriage connection of jo biden. You figure it out for yourself looked completely planned to me.

Thanks...
Interesting PSA doesn't have an announcement or any info on their site.

I did find the announcement of the auction results though.

Any opinions on if it is an upgrade/downgrade?
Are they going to keep the DPMS name, or roll them into PSA?

One vote for PSADPMS just on principle.

The DPMS name has been dead for a while, well before the recent doings. Its not a huge loss, they didn't really do anything well, other than be needlessly weird.

Hmm.
Just read an Feb, 2020 American Rifleman article on the GII..
We're they reviewing old rifles just to pump the soon to crash Remington?

Seems like the IP would have some value...

Hmm pewPew article (name your own qualifier) says:
Roundhill got all firearms except Marlin..
So DPMS was no longer Firearms as of last July?

Pp gone on to say DPMS was stripped and sold before the bankruptcy..

Seems to be about the time Sig Sauer opened their Huntsville operation.
Maybe they took over the plant?

And PSA just got the name?

Don't know about that after the last panic AR prices hit the floor and I picked up a new in the box DPMS Oracle model for $450 .It works perfectly and the gas block was picatinnied on the top for my laser and the flattop picatinny hosts a red dot sight it is my low- no-any light shtf rifle. Nothing that costs more is anymore reliable. Mb

I never understood why Remington seemed to favor DPMS over Bushmaster. It always seemed to me that Bushmaster had much better name recognition.

With 168gr Nosler ammo, my DPMS GII Hunter in .308 is the most accurate semiauto I ever have shot.

The American Rifleman reviewer agrees, albeit with Black Hills ammo:
https://www.americanrifleman.org/articles/2020/2/6/review-dpms-gii-ar-308 (“The GII Hunter I tested blew me away with its accuracy. I was primarily testing that rifle for our sister publication American Hunter and didn't even plan to include it in this article, but the performance is too impressive to ignore. American Hunter uses three, three-shots groups with three different loads as a test protocol. With the Black Hills 168-gr. load, the first group measured 0.30". That was the best, but the average of three groups was 0.47". The average for all nine groups was 0.80". From an out-of-the-box AR-L shooting factory ammunition, that is very impressive accuracy.”).

That article also explains the cleverness and innovativeness of their redesign of the AR10 to make it better and about a pound lighter.

MH,
That's the article I read earlier. Thanks for confirmation..what barrel does yours have?

I read elsewhere that last September Vista took delivery of tooling equipment, fixtures, etc from Huntsville. But I assume the DPMS stuff was already gone since that sale closed before the Ch11?
Or not...
DPMS was reported sold in July but the Ch11 was listed effective on May 15...

Edit:
Guns.com May 2017 article:
8 businesses moved to Huntsville:
Advanced Armament,
Montana Rifleman,
Tapco,
LAR,
Para-Ordinance,
DPMS,
Postmaster,
Remington RM380s, R51a, & 1911s, and
R&D.
+ whatever was done at the Mayfield, KY plant that was closed in 2016. (Bolt action 783s, 597s, Shotguns, among other things)

I wonder what happened to the model museum, did it go with R&D?

So I guess the manufacturing of these all went to Vista Roundhill but not the names?

Vista just bought the ammo business, which I don't believe had any equipment at Huntsville.

It has a fairly heavy 20" bbl. It's never jammed once. Shoots certain ammo like a custom bolt gun. Weighed 7.5 lbs when it was naked.



It's my go-to Mid-Atlantic deer rifle.



They're sadly hard to find now. An FBI friend of mine has been trying to find one for a long time after he saw what it does.

Nice looking (both photos!)

I wonder if there are uppers still floating around complete or otherwise....
That is the billet receiver with a pinned steel feed ramp.
That should pose no issue installing a barrel I guess..
Enjoy!

Last I knew all Remington R-15's were Bushmasters but the R-25 line was DPMS well that's what I heard anyway. Mb

I think that's correct. A friend of mine has an R-25, and I think it totally is DPMS IIRC.

Nephew picked up one also when they were $450
It’s been reliable and he’s been very pleased with it.

bushmaster did have the better name. but I think their guns were used in some high profile crimes which maybe is why they didn't promote them more. dpms had the gen 2 they never did promote very well.

I have a DPMS A2 upper and a DPMS lower that were made years apart and they fit like they were cut from the same piece of aluminum. They are mounted up with a 1/9 twist Armalite 16" mid length barrel and it shoots like a house on fire.

kwg

DPMS was very much known for accuracy.I had two of them with never a problem function wise.