Most of the people who "work with guns", as in shoot them once a year to re-qualify and jack off the rest of the year, are absolute fudds. Companies like Ruger and Colt are household names, and have legendary achievements tied to other companies that held the same names so companies that are actually good and make decent firearms at affordable prices can't get their dick wet with the retarded fudd police, who only recognize the company names they hear on TV or talking with their fudd friends. Except for a few lucky ones does rock river have a cop contract? I shot their (((highly restricted))) AR once and like it very much, not sure about the price. Colt has their nose very far up our collective asses in the frozen north, but we've saturated the lower ranks of it with good people, so the product isn't horribly bad.