Unlike FN, HK has been notably recalcitrant in manufacturing so-called "assault weapons" for the U.S. market since the ban ended over a year ago. FN is doing well here. HK could learn from their example.
Unlike FN, HK has been notably recalcitrant in manufacturing so-called "assault weapons" for the U.S. market since the ban ended over a year ago. FN is doing well here. HK could learn from their example.
Would you really want an XM8?
Why don't they do that? I'd like one of those, too...
It's 2006, why go with 1950's technology? There are a half dozen military rifles I'd like to be able to get my hands on, but the HK9x series aren't among them. Heck, there are already thousands of clones available at bargain basement prices. Guns I'd like to be able to buy are: Sig 55x, Tavor, FNC, QBZ 95, FN SCAR, XCR.
The more firearms ~ the better!
Too late on the 91... The patent ran out long ago and JDL bought the H&K factory equipment from the Portugese Government and is producing the PTR91, a great rifle. It is on the market starting at about $800 and topping off at $1300 with the retractable stock & heavy barrel.
Screw 'em. Let 'em flounder until they figure it out.
They do offer a semi-auto version of the G36, which the XM8 is more or less based on.
G-36.
SL-8 semi-auto.
That's with a nuetered magazine design, because BATF ruled, under the Impeached One, that guns able to accept a >10 round magazine could not be imported, even if no such magazine had ever been imported. So H&K had to change the design a little so it could not accept the G-36 magazine. Hopefully they are now able to import the version that can.
HK turned it's back on the civilian market here in the US. They refuse to service any civilian owned full auto and that has hurt them.
HK could become the premier gun company here in the US but that won't happen until management changes and they remember that the civilian market is where they had their big break through in the US.
Mike