Sort of like Husqvarna and their licence built FN Model 1903s, though in that case the license was apparently obtained after they started making them. That was an interesting situation as well, you had a local military cut off from the usual supplier turning to the major industrial concern to make copies of their service arm so as to keep up with attrition while access to that supplier was restricted.


From: Bruce Johnson <xxxxxx@Pharmacy.Arizona.EDU>
To: "xxxxxx@simplelists.com" <xxxxxx@simplelists.com>
Sent: Thursday, 10 August 2017, 0:57
Subject: Re: [TML] Arms Trade in the 3I

All it’s missing is the DeWalt logo :-)

In reality, only really highly vertically oriented companies (aka Old School Vilani Megacorps) would do this kind of thing, and even then it would simply be the milspec versions sold by their weapons division but with custom stock coloration, and possibly only in ‘semi-auto’. 

In many cases it would simply be a licensing deal for the name; after all Caterpillar doesn’t make these: http://www.kotulas.com/images/product/700x700/495/49513_700x700.jpg

On Aug 9, 2017, at 4:38 AM, Graham Donald (via tml list) <xxxxxx@simplelists.com> wrote:

Something else I might throw into the discussion. In the post I made linking to various pages on DevianArts held by designers of concept weapons, one of them (Linked below.) is to a weapon that by it's appearance and color scheme (Which recalls many common types of multimeter/caterpillar tractors) appears to be an industrial weapon rather than a military one. It could be that some companies make their own weapons and issue them specifically to their guards or for sale to other industrial/financial concerns further down the economic food chain.

The weapon itself is linked below:

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