Nikon, a leading optics producer, stops making rifle scopes [View all]

and red dot sights for guns. Once existing inventory is gone there will be no more production.

In a time when other camera makers are looking for additional revenue streams Nikon is listening to the wildlife photographers who are clients and withdrawing from the firearms market.

Nikon will continue producing binoculars, telescopes and spotting scopes for birding but discontinue all rifle optics.

Whoda' thought a bunch of birders could quietly shift a major optics manufacturer.