I get that certain fanboys won't be happy unless everything down to the cleaning solvent and oil is genuine German sourced, but for those of us just wanting a shooter it would seem US made parts would be a lot more commonly available and affordable.
Take the standard A3 stock for example. You can buy a used one if you can find one for sale, or a Glock. Same price. new I can buy a decent used car instead, well if any were available that is... A US made one in the $200-300 range would sell like hotcakes, yet no one seems to be making them. You can't even find imported knockoffs from Korea or China. These aren't complicated items, once set up with the tooling you could crank them out by the thousands for a few bucks each.
Magazines run $90 and up, at one time licensed copies were relatively cheap but you can't even get them nowadays. Back when I got my Malaysian contract P9s Keepshooting had an Ebay ad for their aftermarket copies of the factory mag. If you bought 4 at one time they were as cheap as $13.50 each. I honestly cannot tell the difference between them and the OEM that came with the gun. Same thickness steel, same design, other than lack of a worn finish you could toss them all in a box and never know which one was original. Obviously an MP5 mag takes more metal and is a bit more complicated to make, but whoever made the P9s mags could likely do the same good job on them for a lot less than $90 per.
Someone with a manufacturing plant that could make these items would seem to be passing on a rather lucrative market at the moment.
Take the standard A3 stock for example. You can buy a used one if you can find one for sale, or a Glock. Same price. new I can buy a decent used car instead, well if any were available that is... A US made one in the $200-300 range would sell like hotcakes, yet no one seems to be making them. You can't even find imported knockoffs from Korea or China. These aren't complicated items, once set up with the tooling you could crank them out by the thousands for a few bucks each.
Magazines run $90 and up, at one time licensed copies were relatively cheap but you can't even get them nowadays. Back when I got my Malaysian contract P9s Keepshooting had an Ebay ad for their aftermarket copies of the factory mag. If you bought 4 at one time they were as cheap as $13.50 each. I honestly cannot tell the difference between them and the OEM that came with the gun. Same thickness steel, same design, other than lack of a worn finish you could toss them all in a box and never know which one was original. Obviously an MP5 mag takes more metal and is a bit more complicated to make, but whoever made the P9s mags could likely do the same good job on them for a lot less than $90 per.
Someone with a manufacturing plant that could make these items would seem to be passing on a rather lucrative market at the moment.
