Drop your bias, and wake up. Do you really think everything's just black and white? Do you really think that there aren't backroom political actions taken all the time? Has everything we've seen in our government in just the last decade not taught us to question what goes on in our government? Stories of unions, and crooked politicians working together is a tale as old as time. (if time originated when the unions came into existence) When SIG built in NH it was during a time when no major foreign company moving their production state side was trying to build anything in the northern union states. LMFAO, they didn't want the headache of a union coming in to try and regulate their business. Everyone was wanting to move south, or midwest. Yet SIG builds in the heart of New England, in a union state. Hmmmm.... Traditionally your largest American firearms manufacturers originated in New England states. Maybe SIG just like the tradition, and figured they'd have the best gunsmithing? Yet I really doubt that. They're not making hand built precision rifles, and highend, hand fitted 1911's. No, I feel that them moving to a union state was politically motivated after seeing them getting awarded every type of small arms contract, and our more established suppliers being neglected.
Let me tell you a little story. I can't remember it perfectly but here it goes. "During WWII when we were developing and building new planes and other instruments of war there was a contract out for some plane. I can't remember which plane it was. I think it was a bomber, but it might have been a P61 night fighter or something. Anyway the government put out a contract for a certain plane. At the end it came down to two companies designs for this plane. Again I don't remember which plane won, so I can't remember its manufacturer, but I do remember who the losing manufacturer was. North American lost this contract, but its plane was regarded as the better plane that the military preferred over the one that won the competition. The reason that North American was not awarded the contract for this plane, was that they already had a large contract that had them building the P51 Mustang that had them staying safely afloat. The supposed inferior plane that won the contract was still a good product, and during this time of war the government needed to feed that planes manufacturer something to keep them going strong as they didn't want them to tank, especially during the war effort." That's the gist of it anyway. You don't put all your eggs in one basket. You've got to spread out the wealth, or competing companies cannot hope to survive. SIG makes a good product, but compared to their competitors they do not make a dominant product. Like was already pointed out, that whole 6.8x51/SIG MCX transaction just seemed a little shaded in biased (predetermined maybe?) in how it transpired.
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