I did a little research on USFA. It seems they started out in the Colt Building in Hartford with up to date equipment. When I went to their place on Ledyard Street, which is where they are now, the place wasn't much bigger than my house in area. There were also only 5 vehicles in the parking lot. It seems to me that would be a huge step down. Having been in manufacturing for over 30 years my assessment would be that this is a failing company. If they do survive long enough to catch up on back orders I would not expect much from them after that.
I don't know about the Ledyard St address but I read somewhere that after they bought the Colt factory, they found out that the building was too old to accommodate the weight of the new CNC equipment and so they moved the manufacturing out of the building to a new facility . Whether or not that was the Ledyard St address, I do not know . Hold on.....
The packrat in me pays off again ! Just resurrected frm my library, which my wife refers to as the Black Hole of Calcutta, an article from the Nov/Dec issue of the now defunct Shoot magazine. In it , there is an article about the history of USFA. It states that for the first 11 years , the guns were produced in the old Colt factory, under the blue dome . In 2001-2002 they moved to a state of the art , 30000 sq. ft. manufacturing ,which became a necessity, when additional CNC milling units were acquired and it was determined that the wood beam floors of the old Colt building were not designed to hold the additional weight. "Tucked away on a two lane side street off I-91, this unobtrusive building belies the high tech industry that is housed within."
The address given for USFA in this 2006 article is 445-453 Ledyard St. Does that address now look like it houses a 30,000 sq. ft. state of the art maufacturing facility ? That article also shows a photo of 7 men with the caption, "The USFA machinists standing in front of one of their CNC milling machines "