Thompson Center Arms to be sold by S&W: Likely Demise

[CowboyTutt]

It appears to be all over the internet but S&W has announced its intention to sell Thompson Center Arms. Hopefully someone with deep pockets will buy it and keep it afloat.

New edit, its far worse than I thought, and probably the ultimate demise of T/C.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJTuBDxDjho

-Tutt

[KWK]

I talked with a gal at S&W last summer after wondering why there were no receivers available. She said T/C has been for sale for a while and that production had ended over a year before, I think it was.

[CowboyTutt]

S&W bought all of their machining and re-tooled it to make other products. Very sad liquidation basically. -Tutt

[JRD]

T/C has been for sale by S&W since spring 2021. They haven't made any T/C products since then.
With no buyer in that time, I'm not optimistic someone is going to jump on it.

[GunnyMack]

Be nice if Ruger would buy the company and use their investment casting to go back into production. Not holding my breath though.

[RIDERED350r]

The TC saga saddens me going back a good few years. I have three old TC traditional muzzleloaders and miss the good old days when they had a dozen or so traditional models to choose from. No, they weren't historically correct, but they had solid traditional roots and were a good quality product. Nowadays for more traditional MLs it's either very cheap of very expensive. TCs absence has left a void

[AJMD429]

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Hopefully people have any parts break on their Encore or Contender firearms ..

[RIHMFIRE]

when was the last time I saw a TC......??????????

[cas]

Tough to find a buyer for... nothing.

What are you getting? The rights to a brand name that you ran into the ground and killed? Technical packages for items you killed what small market interest there was by not producing any. A darn shame.

[Ray]

Tough to find a buyer for... nothing.

What are you getting? The rights to a brand that name you ran into the ground and killed? Technical packages for items you killed what small market interest there was by not producing any. A darn shame.

Therein lies the problem. The bottom $ sale price reflects the value of the real estate and manufactory and machinery but all that can be got for the price is the brand name and so-called "good will". There are 4 s & w employees filling orders and a c.s.rep. answering inquiries for the t/c branded hornady bullets and sabots and lead conicals and the like.....

https://www.grafs.com/thompson-center

32 items in-stock.

[CowboyTutt]

Tough to find a buyer for... nothing.

What are you getting? The rights to a brand name that you ran into the ground and killed? Technical packages for items you killed what small market interest there was by not producing any. A darn shame.

Cas nailed it. A very sad story that reflects poorly on S&W. There is almost nothing to sell. -Tutt

[6pt-sika]

And with that being said I have a Contender frame with 10” 357 MAX and 6.5 TCU barrels as well as dies and brass THAT WILL hit the market as soon as I’m back in the country

[3030]

when was the last time I saw a TC......??????????

That's a great question, I don't remember the last time I saw anyone shooting one either... :(