H&R firearms has one employee

[Darto]

If you added an accessory barrel, Bryan was the pipefitter, most likely.

http://www.go2gbo.com/forums/hr-centerfire-rifles/last-hr-employee/

[Tekkno]

What happened to H&R? one employee? seriosuly

[smith and wesson]

So h&r is shutting down? Damn I was planning on getting a couple of their barrels.

[nick]

There goes the warranty on my Garand

[Thanatos2203]

H&R got bought out by Remington/Freedom Arms group a while ago. Stuff like this seems to always follow, just look at Marlin.

First shotgun I ever bought was a H&R Pardner Pump for $200 dollars at Big 5. Not the most beautiful thing in my safe but it keeps on chugging. Sad to see this happen.

[FNH5-7]

No wonder I just couldn't come across a simple singleshot H&R shotgun.

[Darto]

It is not too late to send in a Pardner/Handi single barrel receiver to add a barrel. Because it is now required now to call their webpage number as the first step, they will be able to tell you in advance over the phone when it is no longer possible for that service. They also keep an up to date list of which barrels are left by their phone operator/receptionist.

Their website lists of what is in stock, is slightly farther behind.

http://www.hr1871.com/Support/accessoryProgram.asp

[sealocan]

Firearms companies are failing, getting downsized, or even going possibly bankrupt (others and maybe even Colt),

even though firearms sales are breaking all time records.

mismanagement, monopolizing / reduction of brand names, wrong types of firearms being made...etc.

I'm sure there's lots of different reasons but I don't want just the two or three big firearms companies that are
" too big to fail "
because then someone in politics will try and make them fail /fall.

[Nickgt40]

What a bummer

[Merc1138]

Firearms companies are failing, getting downsized, or even going possibly bankrupt (others and maybe even Colt),

even though firearms sales are breaking all time records.

mismanagement, monopolizing / reduction of brand names, wrong types of firearms being made...etc.

I'm sure there's lots of different reasons but I don't want just the two or three big firearms companies that are
" too big to fail "
because then someone in politics will try and make them fail /fall.

Being bought out, and then downsized/integrated into the buying company isn't necessarily a negative, and it happens to companies in all sorts of industries all the time.

Colt's massive mismanagement problems that have been happening for at least 20 years is the result of everything from poor business decisions regarding investments, to piss poor marketing and product innovation(rather, a lack of). Just the management problems I recall reading an article detailing them... it was 8 pages. That doesn't even get into the product issues like the OHWS joke they brought to the table and lost against the HK mk23, Colt butchering the 2000 that Stoner and Knight designed turning it into a joke, ignoring the consumer market while relying on their government contracts(and you'd think after they lost one of their contracts back in the 80's they'd have learned... but no), and so on effectively leaving them with nothing but 1911's and ARs in a very saturated market.

You can't really compare the massive amount of incompetence at Colt to a company simply being bought out.

[smith and wesson]

It is not too late to send in a Pardner/Handi single barrel receiver to add a barrel. Because it is now required now to call their webpage number as the first step, they will be able to tell you in advance over the phone when it is no longer possible for that service. They also keep an up to date list of which barrels are left by their phone operator/receptionist.

Their website lists of what is in stock, is slightly farther behind.

http://www.hr1871.com/Support/accessoryProgram.asp

That's good to know I might have to jump on getting a couple of barrels while I can.

[Untamed1972]

There goes the warranty on my Garand

Always remember....a lifetime warrantee means 1) your lifetime 2) the lifetime of the product, or 3) the lifetime of the company......whichever comes first.

[Calif Hunter]

Several years ago, I bought a new top-break H&R .22 just because I wanted a top-break revolver. I don't remember now whether I bought a lifetime warranty or if it came with one, but after Marlin bought H&R, it was no good as they did not work on revolvers. Mike's Gunsmithing in Long Beach has a ton of parts for old firearms and they were able to fix it for me, fortunately. I do still have the Lifetime Warranty Certificate, though....