AmYisraelChai
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Bart Noir said:Not anymore, since the design and rights were sold to Dillon Precision, the company that builds cartridge reloading presses and supplies. There is a branch of the company that rebuilds / fixes them and maybe makes new ones. I think they actually improved them and continue to make sales to both US and other military units. [see recent thread about miniguns defending the scientists]
Bart Noir
It is my understanding that Dillion only repairs/rebuilds/improves them. I dont think any "rights" were sold as there is no longer any intullectual property to sell. (the patents expired quite a while ago) Any one who is able to do so (money, SOT paperwork, skill etc...) could take the design and copy it to manufacture new ones. At this point the only thing G.E. could have sold or held on to would be any tradmarks to the name of the gun they might have had.
I know of at least one other company that does the same thing as Dillion.
This is the same thing as making AR clones or 1911 clones. You dont need anything but the will, money and license to do so. The designs are no longer owned by anyone.