I've read on a couple of forums that RRA lost a huge contract that they had to supply DEA. Supposedly they lost the contract because the quality of delivered guns was not up to par and these sub-par guns were put out on the open market.

Anyone have any facts about this?

JDS

I haven't read that, and I suppose it is possible. I own one RRA, and two other members of my family own them. All of us are very pleased with the quality and accuracy of these rifles.

Might be posible, but I doubt it. Have shot alot of thier weapons and been very impressed. The only reason I went with S&W M&P was I got one at a price that could only be discribed as a steel.
MM

I heard a rumor that a third of the Sig pistols sold to Homeland Security by the Exeter, NH facility had to be returned due to functioning defects. The Sigs out of Germany are perfect, however.

I don't know if it happened, but that isn't unheard of. I was running a DOD contracting organization in the Eighties and one of our contractors had a lot of 14,000 1911 slides that we rejected. They showed up on the open market with the maker's name on the slides. There are many things that might cause a lot to be rejected that would not necessarily impact its reliability, at least in the short run. In the long run, yeah, those specs are there for a reason.

Rock River Arms is about 10 miles from my house. I talked to one of my neighbors today who works there. They said that RRA still has a contract with the DEA.

I think RRA is a the top of the heap and Olympic is at the bottom, every other AR maker is in between.