{"id":9447,"date":"2026-10-27T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-27T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/?p=9447"},"modified":"2026-10-21T13:41:49","modified_gmt":"2026-10-21T17:41:49","slug":"what-the-heck-is-going-on-at-ruger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/what-the-heck-is-going-on-at-ruger\/","title":{"rendered":"WHAT THE HECK IS GOING ON AT RUGER?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ruger is one of the world\u2019s premier firearms manufacturers, and certainly one of the USA\u2019s \u2013 and it has been much in the news today. First, the allegations that Italy\u2019s Beretta was trying to take over this quintessentially American company, and second, the sudden discontinuance of some of Ruger\u2019s most classic models.<br>As to the latter, it appears on the surface to be a restructuring based on sales popularity of some legacy models, combined with an intent to streamline production methods. As to the former, as good an explanation as any can be found here:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Beretta\u2019s Takeover of Ruger\u2014 And Gun Owners Aren&amp;apos;t Ready for What&amp;apos;s Next!\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sDEaA2PV5T4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Or watch <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/sDEaA2PV5T4?si=uojc5VSLb-YfmDht\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">video here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ruger is one of the world\u2019s premier firearms manufacturers, and certainly one of the USA\u2019s \u2013 and it has been much in the news today. First, the allegations that Italy\u2019s Beretta was trying to take over this quintessentially American company, and second, the sudden discontinuance of some of Ruger\u2019s most classic models.As to the latter, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":9449,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9447"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9448,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9447\/revisions\/9448"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}