Anyone else pissed about HK sueing ATI over the GSG-5? Get in here.

[DOC]

I am for one pissed that HK sued them for making a tribute gun in their likeness and instead of HK pulling its head out of the sand and noticing the serious amount of money in the civilian market. What did they do? They sued ATI for making a gun similar to the MP5. So I went to they website and looked on their forums while I saw a bunch of spam messages I didn't see any about the GSG-5.
In case they don't know what a BS move this is on their parts I wanted to let them know and thought maybe you would like to say a few words to them too.

Here is their customer service email. (I assume its for military and police use only too, but I don't see any laws against us using it) cs@heckler-koch-us.com

Send them an email if you have a GSG and are scratching your head wondering where you are going to buy more magazines or plinkers from? Ask if HK is going to license out their design or if they are going to start selling to the real gun lovers, the law abiding citizens of the world?

Thanks for letting me rant. I hope you can send and email sharing your distaste for their actions. And post your responses if you get any.


Here is a thread I started on their site.
http://www.hk-usa.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=5475
Its a good ol fashion fire mission.

[mutt]

I don't see how they can win. Colt couldn't stop other manufacturers from making AR's and those are identical in look and internal function. A GSG-5 may look like an MP5 on the outside, but internally it's a totally different design. The GSG-5 forum on arfcom had some info on this and it seems GSG/ATI won some early victories in the pre-trail stuff. But yeah, this is pretty lame on HK's part.

[Irving]

I bet if HK were suing some Chinese company for copying their design, no one would care.

[DeusExMachina]

They have already won. Under the threat of lawsuit, HK bullied GSG into ceasing production later this year, and ceasing sales in January of 2010.

[mutt]

Oh yeah, it is over. I missed that part of the tread. Good luck getting spare parts for those after 2010. Guess the amount of $ needed to fight in court exceeded the expected profit.

[DOC]

I think they may license GSG to sell their gun~ if they pay a fee. But I don't want HK prices for a toy.