Sig Sauer Catastrophic Failures

[ir0nclash86]

Well this should rile up some feathers. Newly posted and only source appears to be a newspaper as well as a reddit thread talking about it. Idk if this is legit or just a fake. I mean it is sig though so how far fetched can it be LOL.

German police bought 563 Sig Sauer MCXs. 53 presented catastrophic failures and the department will now replace all of them for HK 437.

If anyone knows how to read german, feel free to please translate the newspaper article accurately.

https://www.reddit.com/r/HecklerKoch/s/66PpXWRckB

https://www.reddit.com/r/SigSauer/s/8ffYZSFXnV

[tabascoz28]

It says, look I washed for supper...
Probably some armorers were not using the right parts when changing calibers. It's why I sold my 300bk upper, too easy to overlook something.

[Dan_Eastvale]

These days, the customer performs the beta testing...

Across multiple industries

[morrcarr67]

I read Google translate

Material defect: Police
must replace all assault rifles
The country is buying new weapons for 4.3 million euros - the costs are borne by the taxpayer
Eckard Gehm


They were intended to enable the police to take action against terrorists: in 2018, Schleswig-Holstein acquired 563 medium-range weapons, semi-automatic assault rifles from the Sig Sauer company from Eckernf?rde. The trademark advertised by the manufacturer of the weapons,
each costing 2,500 euros, is called MCX: high penetrating power and a hit pattern that is accurate to 300 meters below. However, as the State Police Office (LPA) confirms, "53 of the weapons have currently been taken out of service due to significant defects." A development that was already indicated in 2021, after the ten training courses weapons through excessive were worn out during use.

Marcel Schmidt, spokesman for the state police office: “As a result, material reports were commissioned from two different, independent testing institutes. Both have determined that manufacturing errors were made during the processing and curing of the raw material, which have a causal influence on the technical service life." Now the final line is the Sig Sauer chapter, all rifles will be replaced. In addition
to durability, another reason is the closure of the factory in Eckernf?rde, which makes purchasing spare parts expensive and leads to delivery
times of a year or more, says Schmidt.

The exchange is scheduled to start at the beginning of 2024."Which weapon should replace the MCX assault rifles? LPA spokesman Schmidt: “The new weapon is the HK437 from Heckler & Koth.” This weapon with the special caliber 300 Black out is an “optimized means of use” because, among other things, it has the advantages of the submachine gun Combine MPS and MCX assault rifles. The country waives any recourse claims That means: The state police are using the exchange to get rid of the submachine guns they have been using for over 50 years.

According to the EU Verga portal, Heckler & Koch is to deliver 60 training weapons and 140 set weapons in the first year of the contract, and 200 weapons in each of the following three years. Set of weapons and accessories. Costs: 4.3 million euros. Is the country taking recourse against Sig Sauer because of the messed up MCX barrels? “A recourse review was carried out by the legal department,” explains Schmidt. “However, the verifiable results of the material report were not clear enough to justify this recourse.” Added to this is Sig Sauer's current place of jurisdiction in the USA and the fact that the company has formally met the requirements of the tender.

Sig Sauer had already not answered questions from our editorial team about possible material weaknesses in 2021, the then managing director Tim Ein-Castagne explained: "We are not aware of any such complaints from customers."