Looks like Sabre Defence is going under.

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"If I am not mistaken in this country you are innocent until found guilty in a court of law by a jury of your peers."

You don't have to be convicted to already be screwed by the evidence - evidence that goes back to at least 2003.

The Justice Department has e-mails, phone records and the 2nd set of books among who knows what else. It looks bad for the bad guys. Of course, maybe one of them framed the others.

www.justice.gov/opa/pr/2011/February/11-crm-161.html


God help them if a member of the U.S. military died due to their actions.
 
Sabre Defence was at one time the sole distributor for the Sphinx pistol.

I tried to get a replacement slide for a Sphinx 2000 pistol. The original slide cracked below the ejection port.

Sphinx (Switzerland) and Sabre Defence didn't want to be bothered with solving my problem. All I kept hearing from both companies was 'import restrictions'.

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You may be in luck now, because KRISS-TDI will be importing the SPHINX line of pistols now
 
If true, you'll have to send your "iGun" rifle back to Apple for reloading as the magazine will not be 'owner-serviceable'. ;)

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And also, proprietary everything.

Instead of the quad-rail, the Job-Rail. Only compatible with Apple attachments. The iVFG, the iLight, iLaser, worst of all, they're going to start their line of iOptics. Instead of red dot sights, blue dots!
 
Not sure which was funnier -- the original iGun/Sabre-Apple article or the fact that some readers were wondering if this was a joke. Wow, some people will buy (and buy into) just about anything.
 
So my questions is, should I go through with my plans to buy one of their AR at a local shop brand new for $860 OTD ? (and no it's not the cheaper light weight with the one piece polymer lower)

Good idea? Bad idea? Does it matter that they're going under?
 
There's an auction in Nashville for all of Sabre Defences' assets on Feb. 15th.

There are 20 million (that has to be $$$ and not units)(my source inside told me this) remaining in unfulfilled contracts. Potential bidders have been told that these contracts can be salvaged.

The employees have been laid off for sometime now.
 
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The articles I've been directed to:

Brandon Gee, "Federal grand jury charges gun manufacturer with illegal arms trafficking", The Tennessean, 8 Feb 2011.
http://www.tennessean.com/article/2...ges-gun-manufacturer-illegal-arms-trafficking

Stephen Wright, Paul Bentley and Daniel Bates, "The Lord of War from suburbia", UK Daily Mail, 15 Feb 2011.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...adition-U-S-claims-smuggled-weapons-Iraq.html

tend to paint the UK owner, Guy Savage, who called himself the "Lord of War", as the bad guy, would not take "no" for an answer, considered himself above the law, etc. The USAO press release warns "An indictment is merely an accusation and each defendant is presumed innocent until and unless they are proven guilty." However, it looks like Guy Savage, Lord of War, has gotten a lot of folks at Sabre Defense, Nashville, Tennessee, in deep doo-doo and most of them do not seem to deserve it.

I am not sure who is going to play Guy Savage in the movie, Nicolas Cage or Austin Powers, but the melodrama is there:
Daily Mail

Officers from Scotland Yard’s elite firearms squad shot out the tyres of Guy
Savage’s Mercedes and threw stun grenades in an early morning ambush.
Public-school educated Savage, 42, is accused of smuggling weapons to Iraq
and the Middle East.
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[snark]Just think of the hoopla if he had been accused of smuggling to Mexico.[/snark]
 
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Companies tend to model their behavior after the head. Guy Savage wasn't the only criminal out there.
 
I love the "... Public-school educated Savage,..." *** does that his background have to do with this. A private school grad would not be involved in something this seedy?
 
Yes many things have been happening as far as being accused by some Fed agency..When the truth comes out the defendants are innocent but broke and with out a business. Not saying this case is like that however innocent until proven guilty and mega bucks wasted is still the law.
 
Wow, the "public schools" are actually private schools, and the taxpayer supported schools are "grammar schools". Elementary, dear Watson.
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I got that, but what point are they trying to make here? That somehow what kind of school he went to had something to do with this? But this is getting way off topic.
 
Wow, the "public schools" are actually private schools, and the taxpayer supported schools are "grammar schools". Elementary, dear Watson.
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They are "public" in the sense that they are open to the public, with the right connections and money. As opposed to private tutors hired by the nobility.

Savage was obviously an upper-class well educated type, not a yobbo, as they say over there.
 
There is no If. They signed an agreement on this. The principles in the company were incredibly guilty on all counts. They deserved to go out of business. They will deserve to get serious jail time.
 
Wow. I really would never think a firearms manufacturer would be directly involved in arms trafficking like this. Is this a totally shocking and new occurrance or has this happened in the past?
 
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