Why the hell are we buying kraut firearms?
He’s certainly near the top of my list
Tough to be an HK anything. They make superb firearms. I have a USP45 Tactical. Best automatic I own, though a little ‘big’.
maybe because they make them better than us?
Because we’ve pissed away our manufacturing base. We no longer make much of the tooling required to make products like weapons...
Germany, however, still makes a lot of machine tooling.
Because we buy the best weapon whether it's American or not?
FWIW, the weapon it replaces, the M249 SAW? It's manufactured by FN Herstal, a Belgian arms company.
Because our House and Senate have destroyed the firearms industry in the USA and enforce it via the BATFE.
The 1986 FOPA Law made it very difficult for small arms manufacturers to develop new weapons without onerous restrictions, penalties, and fines.
Meanwhile, other countries without these laws are free to do all the R&D they want.
Evidently it's to replace our Belgian firearms...though I think most of FN's stuff is made in North Carolina. But at least we're buying them. We stole the Mauser.
‘Cause gun control and the BATF have destroyed firearm innovation here in the States.