DispositionMatrix
NES Member
SIG Sauer to shutter German weapons factory
View: https://twitter.com/eha_news/status/1268538284864659459?s=20
I gather "locational handicaps" means restrictions on non-LEO, non-military sales domestically.It blamed "locational handicaps" hindering its diverse pistol and sports guns sales, claiming a "few other local producers" were preferred in government purchases for Germany's police forces and Bundeswehr military.
Public broadcaster NDR quoted manager Tim Castagne as saying the workers' council at the Eckernförde site, established in 1951, had been briefed about some 125 job losses as well plans to fulfil purchase orders.
"Due to its international orientation, SIG Sauer is systematically excluded from tenders [in Germany], said Castagne, intimating, said NDR, that most of its weapons were developed in the United States.
View: https://twitter.com/eha_news/status/1268538284864659459?s=20