SIG P210 Production Ceased...

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.

First HK announces that the P7 is being discontinued and now SAN sez no more P210's. Looks like 2005 isn't a good year for high dollar Euro 9mm pistols.

I own one of each, a 1992 factory nickel P7M8 and a 1996 P210-6. Got four factory mags for each and the original boxes and paperwork. I figured it would just be a matter of time before the bean counters would kill off these two fine pistols. Looks like the makers of plastik pistolen have finally triumphed.

Some of my shooting pals have handled and shot my P7 and P210. At least one of them will make my an offer on the P210 the next time he sees me. He well tell me that now that the P210 is no longer in production, he will be doing me a favor by taking the "orphan" off my hands and he will even give me a good price. Approx 50% of its blue book value.......


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