This is the way the world has been throughout history of the free world. In non-socialist, capitalist economies, which the US has always been, businesses have had to profit to avoid perishing, and when they don't, they become compromised and either unceremoniously close, or they get purchased and repurposed in one of several established processes.
When Vista decided they no longer wanted to be in the firearms business, a group of employees created an entity capable of purchasing the assets and brand from the ownership group. When Remington saw the writing on their wall, they hired an asset manager to transfer value from the company to stakeholders, CLOSED several of the subsidiary brand businesses - as in ceased production of products and fired hundreds or thousands of workers - bankrupted the company as a whole, and sold IP and physical assets through the bankruptcy proceedings - and those individual assets took different roads on the way out: Ruger purchased a levergun brand, IP, and manufacturing equipment. Rem Arms bought manufacturing equipment and brand IP to profit on a legacy name in completely unrelated manufacturing facilities, pretending to be something they are not. The Bushmaster brand was sold to someone who capitalized upon the name, again, pretending to be something they are not.
Anderson and Ruger are being pretty open about this acquisition. Anderson wanted to sell, so they did. Ruger obviously wanted manufacturing expansion, so they bought it. The American workers working in those facilities have a chance to keep their jobs. The same could not be said about what happened when Winchester closed their facility 20yrs ago, or Remington closed their facilities, or when Remington closed DPMS in Minnesota a handful of years ago, or when Smith & Wesson closed the Thompson Center manufacturing facility in 2010...
