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Originally Posted by Roger Rambo
What was the reason for shutting down the government armories?
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Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara is the reason back in 1968.
According to Ian Hogg's book "The Black Rifle", McNamara was "convinced" by the Colt firearms company to begin production of the SP-1 (later M16) and recinded Springfield Armory's contract to make the M14, he (McNamara) also closed down Springfield Armory which was the last government armory.
It aggravates me greatly because in Ian Hogg's book "Pistols of the World" he states that Samuel Colt (when he was alive in the 1800s) wanted to corner the market on manufacture of government arms, and his company did produce many of them in addition to the government armories for nearly two hundred years.
When the military industrial complex came to power in the 1950s, all of the remaining government armories were closed during the 1960s.