HK greatly expanding their US market

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HK hasn't done anything interesting since the P7 series.

With the patents being expired, and HK no longer even making the P7, I sometimes find myself wondering if there's a large enough segment of American gun owners to support a small boutique company making high-quality P7, P7M8, P7M13, and P7M10 clones for about a grand.

The patents are expired and with modern CNC manufacturing I figure one could make a go of it (although a more realistic target MSRP would be $1200-1500)... the fact that Rohbaugh and Boberg still exist proves that boutique arms manufacturing is possible (and I'd guess that a well made P7 clone would do better than either Rohrbaugh or Boberg). Of course there is the cautionary tale of Microtech Small Arms Research.


The big problems with HK are that they don't understand that in the US market that US gun buyers want you to be a pro-gun political ally too. Also that American gun owners are not the idle rich like they are in Europe so we do shop based on price. The sad truth is that while they're fine guns the USP, P2000, P30 and VP9 are simply not worth significantly more than Glocks and trying to claim they are somehow upscale and deserve MSRPs almost twice that of Glocks is folly. You'll notice that when ATI brought out a value priced MP5 clone in .22lr that they sold a friggin boat load of them (before HK shut them down for copyright violation). Apparently HK didn't learn anything then.