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Not a rumor!!! Wilson Combat purchased NULA in early April and is being moved to Arkansas, Don't ask me how I know!

Good news that the line will continue with a known quality builder.

seems odd melvin would tell me to send my rifle in for a re barrel and we talked about the issues and pricing increases he is dealing with if the company was sold and this was yesterday

Maybe the deal was just struck and it won't close for a few months.....plenty of due diligence to be done.

Maybe it will work this time.

OK.

How do you know?

Interesting....

well we would be a month into the buy out and it would seem machines would be in shipment I would think to their new location not to mention crucibel steel got sold and douglas doesnt know when they will be getting stainless in for a barrel and that is what i want but melvin said send it and he is ordering other things to make guns....just seems odd but its not my business so i can only speculate

Nothing was mentioned to me when I sent my gun in last month to Melvin. It will be a couple months turnaround because of the rebarrel job. He must be in business still that long at least. I was hoping to get a second one done, might not be enough time I guess.

Melvin does the rebarreling/conversions himself outside of NULA. That’s why you make the check out to him directly. I’m speculating but doubt Wilson will make the rifles using Melvins equipment and instead use cnc machines so Melvin can still continue to do work on NULAs.

Wilson will charge at least $5K for a “NULA”. I’m glad the end of Melvin won’t be the end of NULA. But damn.

It's been the same for a very long time.

He's an okay guy, I think.

I am looking forward to retiring soon as I get my medical condition taken care of, wonder what the pay rate and vacation schedule is like. I could relocate for the right gig, although the GF probably wouldn't like it.

thats bs, and i know for a fact otherwise but am not at liberty to speak details

Lovely……….

My money is on the fella from West Virginia.

We will see about the 27th of May at the NRA Convention.

Always interesting to read posts from people who absolutely know what's going on, and don't....

Had a 2-hour conversation with Melvin yesterday, but can't reveal the real deal for a little while.

I’m happy for Melvin that there is a deal. I hope the company will be in good hands and lives on for many years.

You do know Ed Brown's 1911s are every bit as expensive and reliable/accurate as the WC 1911s right?

Surely you would at least go to Brown's website and verify the utter BS you are spewing.

I have a Wilson CQB Compact that I have had for years, back when they were sub $2500 it was gifted to me by my uncle before he passed, I have owned full size Wilson, Baer and Brown, and sadly let them go for trivial unjustified reasons related to either weight or size.

To try and put DW or any other mass produced 1911 up against any of the top shelf 1911 builders is ludicrous at best, but I would put DW and S&W 1911s up there above a myriad of other options.

FTR, I wouldn't put Kimber in the same basket as a Philippines made RIA, I have had a dozen of those over priced and unreliable turds and was disappointed every damn time.