old pre-war German made firearms, which are nice, but I feel the British firearms are just better
This could apply for vintage rifles.
Not for modern ones.
British civilian gun industry does not exist any more for factory produced rifle, while German gun industry is very much alive and kicking.
British now have fine gun works shop for high end dollar rifle, and elite market.
Germany has high quality factory production .
Dear all,
We all know about English bespoke guns. they are now also having their renaissance as well.
So this is not about them.
The question is why the British gun industry does not produce any more rifles and shotguns for middle class customers? What happened to british factory guns?
What are the background reasons behind general lack of British factory rifles and shotguns on the market?
Few days ago, I asked AI (artificial intelligence) to list ten worst rifles in production today, based on AI internet sources.
So, AI did just that.
8 of them were American produced budget rifles and 2 were Rossi and CZ (from new euro production).
This was based probably on various internet complaints available to AI.
Generally, difference in quality production related to marketing is following:
- America, is the largest civilian gun market in the world, and produces rifles for all market classes: budget, middle class and high end. Budget class market is growing.
- Europe, in general, and traditionally produces rifles for middle class, and high end market. Germany has maybe largest civilian hunting rifle production (Blaser, Merkel, Sauer, Mauser, Heym, Kreighoff, etc) , whereas Italians are traditionally more into shotgun production, only recently made some break throughs in rifle market. (beretta, perrazi, fabarm, Guerinni, FAIR, etc)
- UK, produces for elite market, bespoke guns.
Probably exemptions exist here and there, but this is general conditions, thus the quality varies for picky costumers and user, who will easy lean towards new and modern German rifle for hunting.
