AHA! Steyr bashers, how would you like your crow?

[Zundfolge]

original German

Google Translation

Basic gist; NO AUSTRIAN WEAPONS FOUND IN IRAQ.

These so-called HS50s were (as has been surmised by Steyr themselves) COPIES.


Here's the Google translated German (kinda pigeon looking, but you get the idea)

But no Austro weapons in the Iraq
US armed forces contradict newspaper report: “No Austrian weapons with terrorists found”
Of Alexander And Mathé

Enumerating “Rumors were not confirmed.”
Enumerating Easement with Steyr Mannlicher.

Vienna. Which began as Steyrgate, ends now as Seifenblase. An English daily paper had reported in February that armor-piercing sniper rifles of the Austrian company Steyr Mannlicher in hands of Iraqi terrorists had been found. But now for the armed forces at the gulf the responsible person U.S. cent ral COMMAND contradicts this article. “In the Iraq no Austrian weapons were found”, explained lieutenant Commander Scott Miller on Thursday in the discussion with the “Viennese newspaper”. “It gave appropriate rumors, was however not confirmed these rumors.” Closer details became however for the time being do not admit.

Also Austria taken by the pillory

Steyr owner Franz Holzschuh was to have been high-pleased, now officially by the “pillory” have been taken, wants the affair however any longer to further pursue. “One is not to wake sleeping dogs. I am glad that grass grew Holzschuh over the thing”, said. It reacted to Steyr Mannlicher and the Austrian government nevertheless to the clearing-up of the affair obviously relieved, was thereby nevertheless both in disrepute guessed/advised.

The “DAILY telegraph” had reported in February that more than 100 sniper rifles of the type HS50 had been found with raids of the US troops in Bagdad. The weapons originated allegedly from a supply, which had gone to 2005 with permission of the Austrian government at security forceses Iran. The editor of the article was not unfortunately attainable for a statement.

The case had become politically particularly explosive by the fact that England and the USA had violently criticized the business with Iran. Both were the opinion, the weapons could into the hands of terrorists in the Iraq turn out.

The press report seemed to confirm this fear and to set the embargo imposed by the USA against Steyr Mannlicher to a strong basis. This embargo is to by the way run out end of this yearly.

Thursday, 29. March 2007

Not going to hold my breath waitning for the British "journalists" at the Telegraph to print a retraction.

 

[Beatnik]

Wow, that is DEFINITELY translated from German.

Good to hear, though. They're making pistols with excellent value these days, and I hope they can recover from the bad press enough to sell more of them.

 

[LawBot5000]

German sentence structure smoothly at first but then roughly interrupted by verbs flows along.

I really have a lot of sympathy for Steyr. Our favorite turncoat conservative Bush I administratively banned most of their products from the country and then his son's minions accuse them of helping terrorists. We just keep adding insult to injury.

 

[Thin Black Line]

What's next? The Yellow Cake didn't come from Niger either? That there was
no Yellow Cake at all?!

Just who are we to believe anymore. For all we know this article about
Steyr was planted by anti-western jihadists trying to help out Iran.

 

[PPGMD]

Our favorite turncoat conservative Bush I administratively banned most of their products from the country and then his son's minions accuse them of helping terrorists.

Wait what? Last time I checked my local gun store had quite a few of the Steyr pistols. Like most imported pistols they aren't the easiest to find but they aren't banned.

 

[El Tejon]

Zee zenteense structure ist, how you say, a bit choppy.

I thought we at THR stated that these were Paki hill tribe copies?

 

[Gifted]

Wait what? Last time I checked my local gun store had quite a few of the Steyr pistols. Like most imported pistols they aren't the easiest to find but they aren't banned.

Most of their products. The EO non-sporting imports ban is what he's referring to.

 

[Zundfolge]

PPGMD, when was the last time you saw a freshly imported AUG?

We can blame GHWB for that.

 

[Skibane]

Even Steyr admits that it sold a bunch of the rifles (700, IIRC) to Iran. The fact that THESE particular rifles apparently didn't come from that batch may make Steyr's legal department happy, but it doesn't say anything new about their integrity (or lack thereof).

 

[Robert Hairless]

There were no weapons of mass destruction, no Steyr AUGs, no Saddam Hussein, and no terrorists. There was no Iraq either. George W. Bush flunked navigation and got us in a mess. We actually invaded Disneyland. It's easy to see that because there are Mickey Mouse comments all over the place.

 

[Lucky]

SKibane, as was pointed out last time - be careful lest your logic be applied at the micro level.

However it's properly encouraged for you to form opinons of companies based on their policies, so that you personally don't like Steyr because of it, that just shows you're an educated consumer.