18 Jun 2009
Military.com is calling it the Remington ACR (Adaptive Combat Rifle) but the last I heard it was being called the Bushmaster ACR. Bushmaster is now a sister company of Remington under the Cerebus empire. The ACR was, of course, previously the Magpul Masada.
June 19th, 2009 at 7:53 am
[...] spotted a video where a Remington VC referred to the ACR, formally Magpul Masada, as the Remington ACR. It looks [...]
June 19th, 2009 at 8:09 am
So did Remington/Bushmaster buy the design from Masada, or did they acquire Masada, or …?
(Please excuse my ignorance…)
June 19th, 2009 at 9:46 am
[...] Busmaster ACR now the Remington ACR? [...]
June 19th, 2009 at 10:23 am
This stream video player sucks. Too heavy and cant pre-load like youtube.
June 19th, 2009 at 11:31 am
[...] Short video by Military.com over at Murdoc Online. [...]
June 19th, 2009 at 2:07 pm
To Nicolas’s question above…
Magpul developed the concept and partnered with Bushmaster to commercialize it. e.g., Magpul realized they are great at product concept work but didn’t have the expertise to “productize” a firearm…at least not yet.
Bushmaster…along with Remington, DPMS and a few others…were (and still are) being purchased by the holding company called Cerberus (same guys that owned Chrysler for a while). The firearms part of that equation is called Freedom Group.
Remington is being used to hit hunters on the “civilian” side and mil/police on the government side…leveraging the name and already established go-to-market channels. I suspect that Bushmaster will remain the tactical brand they go to market with for civilians.
Kris
June 20th, 2009 at 1:11 am
I hate to sound stupid here, but isn’t this just a newer version of the Stoner system from about forty years ago?
June 20th, 2009 at 9:45 am
[...] spotted a video where a Remington VC referred to the ACR, at one time Magpul Masada, as the Remington ACR. It looks [...]
June 22nd, 2009 at 5:03 pm
sooo, where’s that release date?