The R&D and museum collections should mean little to the new owners, but mean a lot to us. It would be to their advantage to let the collecting world know when these assets go up for sale.

Hopefully the RSA is staying on them, even if the line of communication is not reciprocal. History does repeat itself though, and DuPont infamously felt that "history doesn't sell new products."

The new Remington would be wise to utilize and promote that history rather than dismiss it.