{"id":801,"date":"2017-01-26T01:30:00","date_gmt":"2017-01-26T01:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/2017\/01\/26\/olympic-arms-to-close-its-doors\/"},"modified":"2019-08-16T18:27:24","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T18:27:24","slug":"olympic-arms-to-close-its-doors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=801","title":{"rendered":"Olympic Arms To Close Its Doors"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:8858,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.olyarms.com&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20251011031628\\\/https:\\\/\\\/olyarms.com\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-18 08:49:24&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-23 05:25:15&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-26 08:33:36&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-26 08:33:36&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>\nOlympic Arms, one of the earliest makers of AR-15 clones, has announced that it is closing its door at the end of February. Long before there was a Stag or Daniel Defense there was Olympic Arms. According to their website&#8217;s serial number history, they began making their ARs in 1979.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know if this a general trend or merely an older company that was eclipsed by the younger, more innovative companies. I would tend to think it is the latter and not the former.<\/p>\n<p>I do remember my friend Milo being all excited when he got his Olympic Arms AR-15. I had an email from his describing how he and his son John carefully broke it in. I&#8217;m guessing this was during the early years of the Clinton assault weapon (sic) ban.<\/p>\n<p>Here is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.olyarms.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the announcement from the Olympic Arms website<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"tr_bq\">\n<div style=\"background: rgb(244, 244, 244); border: 0px; color: #666666; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;\">\nAfter more than 40 years of business, it is with great sorrow that we announce that February 28th, 2017 will be the last day of operation for Olympic Arms, Inc.<\/div>\n<div style=\"background: rgb(244, 244, 244); border: 0px; color: #666666; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;\">\nThe Schuetz family would like to express their heartfelt thanks to all their friends, associates, and partners that have been a part of the Olympic Arms experience. Most of all we would like to thank our loyal customers and patrons who have been with us all this time.<\/div>\n<div style=\"background: rgb(244, 244, 244); border: 0px; color: #666666; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;\">\nIn the course of closing, we are announcing the following changes in policy effective immediately:<\/div>\n<ol style=\"background: rgb(244, 244, 244); border: 0px; color: #666666; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 5px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 15px;\">\n<li style=\"background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;\">All sales are final.<\/li>\n<li style=\"background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;\">No refunds or returns will be accepted after 1-25-2017.<\/li>\n<li style=\"background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;\">On-line Shopping Cart will be active and effective while supplies last.<\/li>\n<li style=\"background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;\">All Warranty service ceases 1-25-2017. Warranty work and repairs currently in-house will be serviced and returned.<\/li>\n<li style=\"background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;\">New orders will only be taken for inventory currently in stock, or that can be built from remaining inventory.<\/li>\n<li style=\"background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;\">All inventory will be liquidated.<\/li>\n<li style=\"background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;\">ALL SALES will cease at close of business 28 February, 2017<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<div style=\"background: rgb(244, 244, 244); border: 0px; color: #666666; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;\">\n&nbsp;Thank you for your patronage.<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Olympic Arms, one of the earliest makers of AR-15 clones, has announced that it is closing its door at&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":2,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1339,1680],"class_list":["post-801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-firearms-industry","tag-olympic-arms"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=801"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10958,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801\/revisions\/10958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}