[Dick284]

Remington’s are popular because in their hay day they offered what people wanted, rifles, shotguns, rimfires, bolt, pump, semi, lefty, ambi.....all in the latest raciest chambering too.
Cartridges like the .223 Remington, 7mm Remington Magnum, 25’06 Remington etc... they were the front runner trend setter and pioneer for a lot of inovations.

The Remington 700 became the pinnacle of production rifle accuracy because the action was a glorified piece of pipe, which was easy to keep within tollerences, and was repeateble in the mass production arena.

The 870 was reliable to the point that gunsmiths never carried spare parts because it was just excess inventory you never moved.

They made pump action centerfire rifles in high stepping cartridges like .270Win, and .243Win, that were ambidextrous, shot like a bolt action in the accuracy department, yet slid in a saddle scabbard like a lever gun.

They offered their bolt guns, and shotguns in left hand variants.

Sounds like a recipe for success, until market conditions changed, and the competition got caught up, and holding companies and investment firms got hold of the whole thing. And yes a very high profile safety oriented issue was trumpeted in the MSM.

I still own, and will still buy them when the hankering hits me.