As a Swiss from the french part of the country, I didn't heard about the news, so I made my homework and found the article from the local newspaper (Schaffhauser Nachrichten), published on the 7th of december.
For those who read german, you'll find the paper here:
http://www.shn.ch/pages/archivartikel.cf....da=&startr ow=1
Translation of the part about the P210 is as follow:
(...)
"In year 2000, two German investors bought all the weapon sector of SIG and gave it the new name Swiss Arms. In the first years, business with hunting rifles, the ex-Swiss Army pistol P210 and the Swiss Army assault rifle SG 550 were gut. (...) But, during the two last years, the war for prices has been harder, the accurate weapons of Neuhausen still had a good reputation but they lost ground toward concurrency. (...)
With its new strategy, Swiss Arms will now concentrate on the developpment, production and distribution of assault rifles. Production of the Swiss Hunting Rifles and P 210s is stopped. (...)"
I'm choked of course, as the P210 was the swiss weapon par excellence and it is now the end... Even if used (and new for some time) are still plenty here and for good prices (1000 francs for used army pistols with the A prefix).
Two days ago, I shot my HP against my P49 (army P210). Even if both weapons are different, they have a special flair. For the little story, during WWII as the Swiss Army was looking out for a replacement for its 7,65 Parabellums, the Waffenfabrik Bern developped a prototype that was strongly inspired by the HP to oppose the SIG project.
Bye.
L.
P.S.: very good article from Mr. Zeleny on the P210 linked in the HighRoad post.
For those who read german, you'll find the paper here:
http://www.shn.ch/pages/archivartikel.cf....da=&startr ow=1
Translation of the part about the P210 is as follow:
(...)
"In year 2000, two German investors bought all the weapon sector of SIG and gave it the new name Swiss Arms. In the first years, business with hunting rifles, the ex-Swiss Army pistol P210 and the Swiss Army assault rifle SG 550 were gut. (...) But, during the two last years, the war for prices has been harder, the accurate weapons of Neuhausen still had a good reputation but they lost ground toward concurrency. (...)
With its new strategy, Swiss Arms will now concentrate on the developpment, production and distribution of assault rifles. Production of the Swiss Hunting Rifles and P 210s is stopped. (...)"
I'm choked of course, as the P210 was the swiss weapon par excellence and it is now the end... Even if used (and new for some time) are still plenty here and for good prices (1000 francs for used army pistols with the A prefix).
Two days ago, I shot my HP against my P49 (army P210). Even if both weapons are different, they have a special flair. For the little story, during WWII as the Swiss Army was looking out for a replacement for its 7,65 Parabellums, the Waffenfabrik Bern developped a prototype that was strongly inspired by the HP to oppose the SIG project.
Bye.
L.
P.S.: very good article from Mr. Zeleny on the P210 linked in the HighRoad post.