Heckler and Koch on the verge of going out of Business

[chucklenut]

i like their handguns

price should be lower IMO and their marketing team could do better

 

[BIKER13]

I have a 45acp HK

 

[MaconGuns]

Ive heard and felt like they focused strictly on military market and skipped the civilians. Good quality but most items priced out of the normal Joes price range. If a firearms manufacture isnt going to cater to the civilian market and isnt going to sell to the military, might as well close shop. Colt listen to the public and brought back revolvers and from what I can tell, it seems to be working well. Glock isnt listening so they have to rely on fanboy purchases and police. Sig is definitely being innovation. Smith seems to be keeping up. I had a HK rifle in my younger days and 3 pistols not to long ago. None impressed me enough to keep. Though I wish I still had the rifle as a collectors piece.

 

[BMC73]

It be fun to be Uber wealthy- buy the H&K designs, name, and manufacturing equipment- open up a factory in the south east and start cranking out new American made H&K’s. Not sure if I’d make any money- but that would be fun!

They been doing that in Turkey for a quick minute already.

 

[Torn]

Love my USP. Hope they stay afloat.

 

[byedan]

I don’t think they are going any where, military contracts are what is keeping the flow really low, I think a true hk mp5 for around 1800. Would steal the market from cz and ar9’s

 

[Ken Ford]

No, more Wars for a while. Our military is now recovering from constant Wars. Plus, I have have a child and nephew's in the Military. If, we are attacked OK, let's go to War, but no bull**** Wars like Bush n Cheney put us in!

Doesn’t have to be OUR war...

 

[bulletpaluza]

I don’t think they are going any where, military contracts are what is keeping the flow really low, I think a true hk mp5 for around 1800. Would steal the market from cz and ar9’s

Yeah but got to pay those European union dues...

 

[byedan]

Not if they are US made, I will not go into it much but HK USA has lot of plans for 2019 and 2020, also the reason we don’t have a lot of HK guns hear for non military is due to German export laws

 

[spencer60]

^^^ This... Germany is really reticent to export firearms. Lots of internal pressure to limit sales outside NATO allies.

As Colt, HK and many others always find out, military sales are a boom/bust scenario. Colt *should* have had the advantage of having a robust civilian market as well, but they are run by bankers so they screwed that up. HK was primarily trying to sell into anti-gun EU countries, and the amount of R&D and manufacturing they put into customizing guns to be legal in countries they would only sell 500 units in has to be bleeding them dry.

I do believe that HK has plans for it's US subsidiary. I've heard two podcast interviews where they've said as much. Too bad for them they are going to be doing it during one of the slowest period of gun sales in the last decade or so. Whatever they do better will have to be spectacular to get the sales they will need to keep afloat.