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To: hang 'em
Too bad its the Germans making this rifle, why couldnt a American company make it
5 posted on 04/15/2004 12:16:49 PM PDT by aft_lizard (I actually Voted for John Kerry before I voted against Him)
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To: aft_lizard
its the Germans making this rifle, why couldnt a American company make it?

'Cuz the Krauts live for stuff like this.

11 posted on 04/15/2004 12:30:18 PM PDT by muleskinner
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To: aft_lizard
US companies can license the design, there are a few US companies that do now..
24 posted on 04/15/2004 1:06:09 PM PDT by MD_Willington_1976
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To: aft_lizard
Too bad its the Germans making this rifle, why couldnt a American company make it.

In October, H&K broke ground for their new production facility outside Columbus, Georgia, comfy-close and convenient to the Ft Benning home of the US INfantry School and Headquarters. It's still a German design, but they're an American company now, in part, at least.

41 posted on 04/15/2004 3:13:55 PM PDT by archy (The darkness will come. It will find you,and it will scare you like you've never been scared before.)
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To: aft_lizard
Too bad its the Germans making this rifle, why couldnt a American company make it

Cheaper to outsource it.

79 posted on 04/16/2004 11:22:48 PM PDT by Euro-American Scum (A poverty-stricken middle class must be a disarmed middle class)
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