Is Steyr going out of business?

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Was at the local gunshp today admiring a Steyr M-9, when the salesman felt the urge to warn me that Steyr had just been bought by a car company (BMW?) and were no longer making firearms.
Is there any truth to this? Not trying to spread rumors, just seeking confirmation/refutation.

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David
 
This has been going around on and off for a couple of years. They lost their manufacturing plant a while back to BMW I believe. They also lost their importers and were left without a factory. I believe they now have a factory up and running and an importer...


I could be wrong though. I got rid of my Steyr a while ago. It was a nice gun, I just didn't like the way it pointed or the habit it had to eject shells into my face every other round. Nicely made otherwise, a good friend of mine still carries his.
 
No idea about the rumor. There is a Steyr Motors that makes custom high-performance Diesel engines that BMW might be interested in. One might do the conspiracy theory thing and guess that your dealer was "encouraging" you to buy a gun that might become more valuable over time...! Hard to imagine what BMW would do with Steyr-Mannlicher if they ceased to make guns.
 
that is very old information. Steyr is back and doing theyre own importing from outfit in Mississippi IIRC. service and parts on other hand screwed up at moment but being worked on.

www.steyrclub.com or check out steyr section at glocktalk forum number 96.

if you want a Steyr in the $300 dollar range buy now. they are liquidated pistols from 1999-2000 when former importers bellied up. they are no longer making the old M & S series its now MA1's which go for anywhere between $450-$550 not many with manual safety just short/light action DAO.
 
The Steyr USA service center is being stood up now down in Atlanta. Expect them to be up and running (parts and service support) in a month or two. There have been plenty of people from the States in direct contact with the Steyr-Mannlicher management team in Austria and they are ready to make a renewed effort to capture their rightful part of the US market.

You're going to be seeing more, not less, of Steyr in the near future.
 
The whole BMW connection is this. The facility where Steyr was building the M and S series pistols was in a building they where renting from BMW ... BMW decided they wanted to use the building and didn't renew their lease so Steyr had to put their stuff in storage for a couple of months while they hunted for a new place to set up shop.


This is like 3 or 4 year old info.
 
Steyr is now selling rifles through Walmart-----so I doubt if they're going anywhere.
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huh? you must be mistaken with savage. Steyr bolt action rifles have superb quality no pot metal. they sell for $500+ and the $500 range is the value line they have better rifles for 2-3 times that like Steyr Scout,Elite and SSG. they also recently released a 50 caliber single shot rifle and have it in another caliber 460 steyr you see one selling for less you best be buying. dont recall seeing anything over $400 at walmarts gun racks.

Steyr and mannlicher have a long history of rifles. mannlicher manufactured the first semi auto rifle ever was introduced in 1885

little more info
http://www.steyrscout.org/steyr.htm

wish I could pickup one of those HS-50's at my walmart.
http://world.guns.ru/sniper/sn64-e.htm
www.steyrmannlicher.com
http://www.steyrclearinghouse.com
 
they are no longer making the old M & S series its now MA1's which go for anywhere between $450-$550 not many with manual safety just short/light action DAO
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I have no experience with the MA1 but I have been told is is the same basic action as the old M and S series pistol.

If that is true the MA1 is not DAO. It is single action.
 
MA1 same thing different polymer frame and it is DAO. the ATF says its DAO and the Manufacture says its DAO. if you want to call it single action fine. many would like to call the Glock single action as well
 
The Steyr trigger is very similar to Glock's except for a shorter reset. The overall design is better and the barrel has to sit lowest of any I've seen. Result is minimal muzzle jump and hence less perceived recoil. I've 2 now and truly like them.

The new M9-A1 and M40A1 have some changes to the shape of the frame and (except for earliest imported guns of this new model) do away with the manual safety, which sits in the trigger guard.

Bart Noir
 
The Steyr is carried with a fully cocked striker exactly like a SA XD.

How can it be called DAO?
 
the striker is not fully cocked it is DAO by manufacture and atf and ipsc and other sport shooting events.

the sear moves 2 directions vertical trip and fore and aft. sear has to move to disable the sear safety. its short travel but their is no minimum length for dao classification that I have heard.

firing pin is not fully set till trigger pull. trigger is never fully set till the slide is fully forward and the firing pin pushing the sear and sear lever forward till the sear lever takes up the gap between itself and the frame.

like the glock the firing pin is not fully cocked till trigger is pulled. when trigger is pulled this pushed the sear to rear of the pistol the firing pin is resting on the sear it makes rearward travel and only then fully cocks sear safety clears and the sear drops down releasing fire pin. this is nothing like the XD the XD has grip safety to the sear

once you understand how parts 10,11,12,13 and 32 in M series manual work you will know its DAO. doubt they would be importing them under ATF points system if it was not.
 

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I own two Steyr pistols. On both the striker is fully cocked to the rear when it has a round chambered.

Mine are single action.
 
I'm sorry, but if the striker is cocked... then it is a single action just like my XD...

and if the Steyr is somehow getting an exemption in IDPA for SSP then the XD should as well... But the XD is considered single action by both the owners (@ www.xdtalk.com)... and IDPA...
 
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I own two Steyr pistols. On both the striker is fully cocked to the rear when it has a round chambered.
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Were you using your xray glasses to watch the action of the striker?? :banghead:

The striker on a Steyr, just like a Glock, is only partially cocked. It takes the trigger pull (as MrApathy described in some detail) to fully cock the striker and actuate firing. This is the same system that a Glock uses (gee, maybe because the designed used to work for Glock??), which is a double-action pistol. It's also the same way that a Walther P99 QA works.

It may sound like semantics, but if the action of the trigger is required to move the striker into its full firing postion, then it is by definition, double action. It just happens that in the Steyr (or Glock or Walther), the distance that it has to travel is significantly less than a "traditional" double action like a Ruger or Sig. In fact, since this has to happen on every trigger pull (not just the first one, like a Sig P228), the Steyr is technically a DAO pistol.

I don't know how the XD firing mechanism works, so I can't offer an explanation as to why they have been ruled single-action pistols. It must be different than the way Steyrs and Glocks operate --- maybe it is a fully cocked striker system. But that doesn't change the fact that Steyr (and Glock) are DAO.
 
The striker on a Steyr, just like a Glock, is only partially cocked. It takes the trigger pull (as MrApathy described in some detail) to fully cock the striker and actuate firing. This is the same system that a Glock uses (gee, maybe because the designed used to work for Glock??), which is a double-action pistol. It's also the same way that a Walther P99 QA works.
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That is 100% complete BS.

If you own a Steyr you have to know better.
 
I know a forum full of people that will argue against what you say bout it being single action.
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Then you have a forum full of people that don't know ???? about their guns.
 
I don't have a steyr so I cannot speak for them so if it is only partially cocked then it is double action,

The XD utilizes a fully cocked striker, therefore it is single action.
 
Then you have a forum full of people that don't know ???? about their guns.
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That is 100% complete BS.

If you own a Steyr you have to know better.
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This kind of attitude is extremely arrogant. I'm not going to go into how the action carrier works again, it's already been thouroley explained by Navy87Guy and mrapathy2000. I'm sure you realize that a single action does one thing, release the striker. Steyr handguns tend to cause a bit of a gray area because of their short trigger stroke, but anyone that has actually studied how one works will see that it does indeed, pull the striker back and then release it.

To call B.S. in the manner that you have shows ignorance and arrogance, which together are extremely annoying.
 
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