We are going to pay the Germans to build our guns? Why not an American company? WTF?
Didn’t braindead say to buy and produce American products? Yes he did. But won’t remember what he said.
SIG Sauer, Inc, is headquartered in New Hampshire.
Many military arms are Belgian. M240 and M249s for example are Fabrique Nationale, a Belgian company. M9s are barettas, M1014 shotguns are Italian, etc
Tom Taylor, SIG Sauer’s chief marketing officer and executive vice president of commercial sales, succinctly summed this up: “SIG Sauer is an American company, and our firearms are 100 percent manufactured in the USA. Beyond that, and an even lesser known fact, is that SIG Sauer ammunition is made in Arkansas, while SIG Electro-Optics are made in Oregon.”
And wasn't the Beretta M9 the standard issue military sidearm in the U.S. from the mid-80's up until a few years ago? So this isn't entirely unprecedented.
They will be built under license and Sig will get a small fee for each one. This is a common situation in the arms industry. The Beretta 9mms were built in Connecticut IIRC. The Army had to pay a fee to Mauser because the 1903 used the Mauser action way back in the early 1900s.
They manufacture a lot of their guns sold in North America in Portsmouth, NH and another plant in Rochester, NH.
It may be mostly pistols there, but they have been hiring a lot of people for several years.
No, we are paying American’s to produce our guns. Sig Sauer moved their HQ to NH and has been producing firearms in the NH and Arkansas for years now. They are investing in the USA and should be applauded fore producing high quality products here.
Yes, they still have some production in Germany.
As usual… Do your homework.
Probably produce them here under license, though German quality is pretty good.