Here's how I see it - the gun was produced, then it went out of production. Not for just a while, but many decades. All the good people who built it are dead and gone. The Meriden shop is gone. The tooling is gone.

There is no way you can avoid the label 'reproduction' under those terms. Further, the new $49K gun is being reproduced on the same floor as Foxes...I am sure your average Meriden employee would barf at that.

The gun may look the same but dare I say it....it doesn't have the soul of a real Parker Bros. gun.