I’ll agree with you on the 870 and 1100 series shotguns being quality guns but disagree about 700 series rifles. There’s several videos and reports of 700 series rifles discharging with the safety on and the shooter never touching the trigger. One of the guys that had this happen to him was a sniper for a SWAT team while closing the bolt. So not an untrained individual. One of the people who was on the development team for the 700 brought it to Remington’s attention during its development and even redesigned the safety and trigger assembly for it. Yet Remington disregarded it and used the faulty original design. I remember hearing that there was a judgement against them over it. I wouldn’t be surprised if this is still playing a factor in their current financial issuesRemington built quality guns, but hasn't really built a gamechanger since the 700 came out 60 years ago. Quality of the old stand by models, the 700, 870, and 1100 has steadily declined over the past couple of decades.