Sig Mcx

Iamscotticus said:

so Sigs CEO will get a $60 million severance package too?

Click to expand...

Coming from a place that transitions technologies to fabrication ... I think I can understand why the 556 didn't take off. They are limited in what they can do while they have to hold to a swiss made design. I think when they begin to make a platform (like the MCX) that's totally something of their make (American make) theyre going to be able to put a lot more chips down on it. They hold all the cards and developmental rights, now, when they aren't acting as the US manufacturing extension of a European company. I mean lets face it they have only truly been their own company now for a little over a decade ... probably making most of their money servicing nothing but euro designed models ... it takes awhile before you can start to actually R&D your own stuff when youre still paying for licensing rights to continue to manufacture and officially service those Euro designed guns the parent company made.

In short xi still lent on its parent companies technologies a tad. MCX is virtually all original in make. I think its a platform they can really hang their hat on as they try to make their own identity. They sort of half assed the break in the beginning because they were scared to lose the rep that their Euro parent company made for them, its a rep that kept them in business long enough to do what they are doing now, and they rode out a time period when other major manufacturers were faltering. I'm actually glad to see them spinning off and trying some original designs.

Criticizing manufacturers, large and small, is one of my soap box issues when I pop in here.
Its not easy making it in the gun business. With an anti-gun government and 3/4 of the population whose only firearms experience is watching some 2-3 hours of fictional police TV dramas and action hero movies demonstrating exactly how NOT to use firearms, and the take away message from it all is that a bad-ass with a gun can conquer all the bad guys of the world, how does a firearms business survive? I suppose that many of the idiots are going to run and buy the tacticool bad guy slayer they saw Aaaah-nold wield with devastating flash and bang, vanquishing the nemesis from hell. Its all fantasy dragon slayer stuff. Everybody should go play some paintball and eat paint till they realize thyre not invincible heroes they fantasize over.

So, complaining about a company like Sig Sauer, whose product leader is pistols, not rifles, not having a perfect rifle, just isn't accomplishing much.
Considering all the other issues a firearms manufacturer deals with like the regulations, reporting, licensing, liabilities, lawsuits, ENDLESS LITIGATION, negative press, internal company conflicts, supplier and contracted supply problems, labor issues, and so much more I don't even know about,
wait for it...






I just say, Thank You, for waking up and doing it every day.
So I can play Rambo on the weekends.

I avoided getting an MCX for years for some reason then found this Gen 1 cheap ($1,156 shipped) recently. It’s impressive in weight, balance, handling, fit & finish.