It doesn't help that the U.S. market declared pretty much their entire product line un-importable at the stroke of GHW Bush's pen in 1989.Originally Posted by fatdog
Get bitten like that, you're gonna be gun-shy.
It doesn't help that the U.S. market declared pretty much their entire product line un-importable at the stroke of GHW Bush's pen in 1989.
Get bitten like that, you're gonna be gun-shy.
Right, and if you want to sell your product in the largest market, domestic U.S. you get your head out of your ass and figure out a U.S. based assembly or manufacturing strategy like some others did, or you just give up on the biggest potential market because you "don't want to sell these guns to rednecks" as one HK exec told their U.S. based sales management a decade ago.
They have manufacturing plants in georgia and somewhere in new england (vermont i think).
They have a facility in Columbus GA just outside Ft Benning.
The other place you are thinking of is Wilcox Industries in NH, a well known military contractor who HK has contracted with on projects like US production of the HK45 series.
http://www.wilcoxind.com/Small-Arms-...upport-C9.aspx
Yea, wilcox was supposedly involved in stateside production of caracal pistols...no idea what the hell happened to that
What's your point?
"Are you ready? Okay. Let's roll."- Last words of Todd Beamer
Wilcox was just a sub contractor for both HK and Caracal. Don’t really see the relevance.
Which they waited 20 years after the import ban Tam cited to build and open, and longer than that until they started to sell products to U.S. civilians that were actually made there that were exempt from import bans.
The 89 import ban was followed by the 94 AWB. If they had built the plant to produce stateside, it actually could have hurt them.
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I thought Colt sold MORE civilian AR-15's after the ban than they did before....
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