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SIG Sauer AG is a Swiss manufacturer of armaments.The company was previously registered as SAN Swiss Arms AG and changed its name to SIG Sauer AG in December 2019. [1] It was known as SIG Arms AG before 2000 when it was acquired by the German investors Michael Lüke and Thomas Ortmeier from parent company Schweizerische Industrie Gesellschaft.
SIG Sauer is a Swiss brand name of firearms originally manufactured in Neuhausen am Rheinfall.Several sister companies that design and manufacture firearms use the trade name SIG Sauer [ɛs iː ɡeː ˈzaʊ̯ɐ] and it is also registered brand name.
In January 2014, SIG introduced the 556xi series rifles as an improvement to the 556 and 556R series rifles. As of May 2017, SIG has discontinued the SIG 556, SIG 556R, and 556xi series of rifles and no longer displays those models on the products section of their website. [19] The SIG 522LR is a .22-caliber sporting rifle styled after the SG 551.
Due to Swiss restrictions on the export of military weapons, SIG entered into a relationship with the German company J.P. Sauer & Sohn, in order to give SIG access to the global firearms market. During the 1970s, SIG purchased both Hämmerli [56] [57] and J.P. Sauer & Sohn, resulting in the formation of SIG Sauer.
Swiss production of the P210 continued until 2006. A new model, the P210 Legend, was introduced by SIG Sauer GMBH of Germany in 2010, and another, the P210A, was introduced by SIG Sauer Inc. of New Hampshire in the United States in 2017. In 2022, Sig Sauer released the P210 Carry originally debuted at the 2010 Shot Show in Las Vegas, Nevada.
As of 2007, around 40 percent of discharged soldiers choose to retain their weapon (nowadays the SIG SG 550), and the going rate for civilianised Stgw. 57 rifles on the private weapons market is reported to vary between 300 and 500 Swiss francs.
The SG 540 is a 5.56×45mm NATO assault rifle developed in the early 1970s by Schweizerische Industrie Gesellschaft (SIG, currently SAN Swiss Arms AG) of Neuhausen, Switzerland [4] as a private venture primarily destined for export markets and as a potential replacement for the 7.5×55mm Swiss SG 510 automatic rifle known as the Stgw 57 in Swiss service.
Schweizerische Industrie Gesellschaft (SIG) is a Swiss company, now known as Sig Sauer AG. [4] [5] In 1975, SIG entered into an agreement with German gun manufacturer J.P. Sauer & Sohn to develop and market a new handgun which became the P220. The P220 was the first SIG Sauer handgun sold in the US.