H&K WILL build a US plant !!!

[BerettaNut92]

 

[Orbital-Burn]

nice, except all their badass guns are already banned. I'd love to buy a PSG-1 or a semiauto G-36 with real magazines but it'll never happen without a regime change.

PS Skunk, if you read the HKPRO site you'll find HK quit importing the SL-8

http://www.berettausa.com/product/spotlight/images/spotlight_cx4storm.jpg

 

[MAKOwner]

Hmm, I'm betting they will not sell any of the good stuff to mere civilians...

 

[dustind]

Led by two longstanding Heckler & Koch managers, Ernst Mauch and Dr. Dirk Holzknecht, the company will continue to serve the international military and law enforcement markets. HK’s new management also emphasized their commitment to the U.S. civilian market.

I hope they mean that.

I am happy, SB-89(semi auto mp5k) and G36 variant (SL series??) here I come.

I can not wait, now all we need to do is to kill that AW ban, and we will be set.

 

[dustind]

Orbital burn

The import ban would be moot if HK builds a plant in the US. I think they will sell to civilians, they have new owners, and there is too much money for them not to.

 

[cool45auto]

[cartman] Sweeeet!!! [/cartman]

 

[Robert inOregon]

Sorry for the mental masturbation interruption, but the new US plant is only going to produce glorified AR magazines and nothing more.

 

[Hkmp5sd]

What does this mean with regard to buying a MP5? Could we buy a newly made short-barreled version with a Class 3 tax stamp (non-FA)?

Yes, you can then buy a newly manufactured HK-94 (semi-auto version of MP5) with a <16" barrel registered as a NFA SBR.

I wonder if it's too early to pre-order a HK SP89 for delivery on Sept. 14, 2004. Might finally get my MP5K!!

the new US plant is only going to produce glorified AR magazines.

That doesn't make sense. It would not be cost effective for H&K to build a plant in the US to make AR magazines. No way could they make them cheaper than they currently sell for, especially with the AW ban going away next year.

The only logical reason to build a plant in the US is to bypass the import restrictions on firearms. For any other reason, they would build in Mexico and benefit from cheap labor and avoid all of the regulations the US puts on manufacturers.

 

[coldshot03/04]

H&K ALABAMA WELCOMES YOU!!!!!!

Trying to get their attention.

 

[natedog]

Now all we need is the '86 ban to go bye bye....

 

[Jeff OTMG]

It is interesting that this is announced 13 months before the expected sunset of the ban. They will be a domestic manufacturer and no longer be subject to the executive order of 1989. Good luck on getting the 1986 machine gun production ban lifted.

 

[Erik]

"The only logical reason to build a plant in the US is to bypass the import restrictions on firearms."

I believe the main reason they are committing to a US factory is to land lucrative federal contracts, though of course there are fringe benefits.

(You do nto have to have a state-side factory, but it helps. Politics is business, sometimes, and visa versa.)

 

[Hkmp5sd]

I believe the main reason they are committing to a US factory is to land lucrative federal contracts, though of course there are fringe benefits.

Any federal contracts are a big *maybe*. Their bigger market would still be the civilian market and most of their long guns have be denied importation rights for civilians since 1989. If the AW ban goes away, they will have an even larger market for their firearms. Just looking at the number of US made HK clones shows there is a market for these guns. A US plant would put the real HKs back in competition.

 

[HBK]

A friend of mine in the Army said that H&K has a contract to start supplying the US military with rifles in 2005.

 

[4v50 Gary]

Build the plant in the South? Does this have any relationship to the statement made to me by one Southerner, "It ain't over yet." Pray for the AWB BS to end so we can all have HK 36s & Cmags.

 

[Bainx]

So....this means, instead of paying way, way, way too much for their way over rated pistol, I just get to pay way too much.

 

[ahenry]

Any federal contracts are a big *maybe*.

I’d be willing to lay some money that the biggest non-military federal contract ain’t no maybe.

 

[Dorian]

looking at the number of US made HK clones shows there is a market for these guns

I think is VERY true.

and wouldn't it be a HK 96, not a HK 36?

G3=HK 91
G33=HK 93
G36=HK 96?


WHO CARES!?!!?! IT's a civilian g-36!

 

[Kharn]

Bainx: Do you think they're going to lower the prices just because they moved to the US? IIRC, something like $100-$200 of the price of a USP is import duties and tariffs. Thats easy money for them to pocket; even if it costs them $50 more per gun to make them in the US, they can forget the import taxes and can just pocket the rest (without lowering the MSRP of the pistol).

Kharn

 

[Spark]

Let's see, they can directly go after Glock's dominance of the LE market by dropping the prices to Glock levels, or they can keep the prices super high and hope that their name continues to draw more people to their brand. The import / export tariffs are a major hinderance to their capturing more of a market share. Moving here get's rid of them. HK has pulled some stupid moves, but give them some credit.