What do you bet HK gets the new Army contract?
When we come up with a design that's produced by several contractors, as Winchester, TRW and H&R did alongside Springfield Armory in the case of the M14, and as Colt, General Motors/ [Hydramatic] and FN International have done with the M16, we'll likely have a real winner again. Single-sourced small arms procurement has got to go.
In an ideal world, perhaps. But the world is far from ideal. I only know HK moved an entire facility to Smyrna, GA -- manufacturing, sales, R&D from what I hear. And I'll bet they didn't go to such considerable effort and expense just to sell USP pistols to the public.
I just wonder if the deal wasn't already signed, sealed and delivered long before HK invested in their Georgia plant.