They'll manage to stay alive as long as the government needs them for the M-16 contract. FN and Remington produce only a small portion of M-16 parts and guns for the military. Tom is right. They've been mismanaged for decades. As long as they stick to the basics, (AR's, 1911's, Single Action Army's), and stay away from "Smart Guns", and disasters like the "All American 2000", their end product has always been good, just not the idiots running the place. Another one of their big mistakes was discontinuing the Python. Again, it was one of the few things they did right.