I don't know who this impacts, if anyone, but I'll be curious if this changes the direction of Gretsch, Gibraltar, or Toca. Probably not anything soon, but ...
http://www.drummercafe.com/content/view/164/9/

I remember reading on other forum about Kaman being an artillery/military equipment merchant and how those guys at that forum were proud they bought their LPs before the Kaman/LP agreement and the all antiwar thing. I mean, I'm antiwar - anti any war - but subsidiary corporations have little (if any) to do with what its matrix corporation or sibling subsidiaries do. To LP or Toca, Kaman Music Corporation is just a chair at their board of directives; same goes for Kaman Corp at KMC at.

I hope that with Fender now on charge things change for better. I've heard many people complaintning recently about quality issues with LP, Gretsch (imported) and some other Kaman brands.