Troubled German gunmaker Heckler & Koch takes aim at US for sales ...
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May 2, 2015 - Heeschen, 54, bought H&K in 2002 from British Aerospace, now BAE Systems, with Keith Halsey, owner of English gunmaker Boss & Co. The company is perhaps best known these days for supplying the rifle that may have killed Osama bin Laden. He is raising H&K’s profile as he pushes back against ...
I could be wrong but I think this is the first time since the US military purchased the Krag (Krag–Jørgensen repeating bolt action rifle designed by the Norwegians Ole Herman Johannes Krag and Erik Jørgensen in the late 19th century) that the US has bought a weapon from a foreign owned company for general use. “And beneath the starry flag, we will shoot them with a Krag....