KarateHottie93
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I ask myself this question literally every single day. It’s too the point that I’m seriously considering selling off a car and some firearms to buy an old PTR44. Apparently that same company (SSD) still makes a clone called the BD43. They also make FG42 clones. They even make fully modernized versions of these platforms. Why can’t someone just start importing them? I’m not sure of all the legalities and logistics involved in importation, but what I do know is that a lot firearm collectors are willing to pay big money when they want something. A lot of people definitely want a fairly true to the original STG…the same way a lot of people want an AK, an FAL, a G3, etc.
Ever since the HMG debacle I‘ve seen people use their failures to argue against an STG clone. They say things along the lines of “if people wanted them HMG wouldn’t have went out of business”. That’s not a good argument though for several reasons. First off, a single rifle never made it into the hands of the consumer. A lot of people just aren’t going to risk preordering a newly tooled firearm from a very small and relatively unknown company…especially one that made what name they did have off assembling parts kits. The reason those guns didn’t sell isn’t because enough people didn’t want them. It’s because they didn’t actually exist. Yeah there was a lack of preorders but that’s because people saw huge red flags and questions went unanswered from the start. The main one being that they were taking preorders for four vastly different calibers when they hadn’t even released it in one of them yet. My point to this rant is that the HMG ordeal had nothing to do with the STG not being a highly desirable firearm. It had everything to do with their own questionable practices.
Ever since the HMG debacle I‘ve seen people use their failures to argue against an STG clone. They say things along the lines of “if people wanted them HMG wouldn’t have went out of business”. That’s not a good argument though for several reasons. First off, a single rifle never made it into the hands of the consumer. A lot of people just aren’t going to risk preordering a newly tooled firearm from a very small and relatively unknown company…especially one that made what name they did have off assembling parts kits. The reason those guns didn’t sell isn’t because enough people didn’t want them. It’s because they didn’t actually exist. Yeah there was a lack of preorders but that’s because people saw huge red flags and questions went unanswered from the start. The main one being that they were taking preorders for four vastly different calibers when they hadn’t even released it in one of them yet. My point to this rant is that the HMG ordeal had nothing to do with the STG not being a highly desirable firearm. It had everything to do with their own questionable practices.