Originally Posted by
MountainRaven
On the 9th of October, the Bundeswehr announced that they were canceling the Haenel order. Further comment by the German government was that they canceled the order because they found the Haenel design infringed on Heckler & Koch patents.
I could not be a small arms supplier to Germany. I've never seen an industry that gets so f'ed with on a regular basis like it's all normal.
I think of the time and money dropped on the G11 project with the West Germany military claiming it will be the across the board replacement for the G3, then the wall came down, West had to pay for infrastructure improvements in the East and a flood of PhD types came to the West who thought $8 an hour was amazing jack and bottomed out their economy.
The German army then decided they didn't need the G11 and I think Fiat came damn close to owning it before it sold to RSA in England. Their laws are insane (even compared to ours) and their "everyone gets a fair and equal shot" approach to weapon adoption is well intentioned but wholly impractical. Haenel thought they had a date to the dance and then SUDDENLY, nope not happening.
And I'm fairly certain Haenel had all of their eggs in this basket and now they are probably done.
It's hard to be a ACLU hating, philosophically Libertarian, socially liberal, fiscally conservative, scientifically grounded, agnostic, porn admiring gun owner who believes in self determination.
Chuck, we miss ya man.
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