Swiss Arms SAPR in low rate production

Not availible yet. Even in Switzerland. It was supposed to be out in May of this year (after further delays). I'm guessing Winter at best.

Keep in mind that SAN doesn't have the 300+ workforce it had when it had the SG 550 contact with the Swiss Military. The contract is over and a bunch of people got laid off. I'm told only 35-40 people work there now.

That and there are rumours of a new Swiss Arms pistol to be announced in the coming months. They are pretty busy for a small company.
 
TSE JR said:
We are working WITH R. Nicholls AND Swiss Arms on this. When one is available to us from Swiss Arms, we will navigate it through the RCMP.

JR
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Too bad some people need to get through R Nickols. They got LE contracts and leave all other on the back burner. If you ask me, the manufacturers should have a different dealer than the LE one.

R Nichols is too busy making money with their Arwen products and what ever else they sell to police departments, and rest doesn’t count - we're just a few cents worth. We are still missing services and also missing on possible purchases of many brands name products, because of this.
 
I have two SIG 542 7.62x51 rifles and am sure that the new SAPR will use the 542 magazine and the rifle will be a re-engineered copy of the 542.
 
Police Ordnance builds them under licence here in Canada. Not sure on exact details but they may have bought the rights to the entire system.
Great system. Works good on those who don't listen to instructions. The best factor is that you can reload the cases and reuse the baton rounds with a kit for pennies a round. Makes training on a limited budget alot easier.

On a side note, R Nicholls is very busy selling socks, uniforms and other kit that the real money is made on. How many uniforms and socks do you think a member goes through compared to one pistol every 20 years or so?

Rich
 
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Rich LPS said:
Police Ordnance builds them under licence here in Canada. Not sure on exact details but they may have bought the rights to the entire system.
Great system. Works good on those who don't listen to instructions. The best factor is that you can reload the cases and reuse the baton rounds with a kit for pennies a round. Makes training on a limited budget alot easier.

On a side note, R Nicholls is very busy selling socks, uniforms and other kit that the real money is made on. How many uniforms and socks do you think a member goes through compared to one pistol every 20 years or so?

Rich
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PO began by importing from the UK and eventually bought the rights outright. They manufacture the gun in Canada. They currently make a variety of baton and teargas rounds.
 
Swiss Arms had a booth at the gunshow in Bern last weekend.

They had the new version of the SAPR with them.

The lower is now milled from a block of aluminium instead of the stamped steel lower of the earlier version.

Does look a lot better now.

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Magazines are not quite ready yet, the final version won't have the studs, but they'll come in black, probably just like the dominion arms mags.

Retail price is 5k
 
Kampfhamster said:
Swiss Arms had a booth at the gunshow in Bern last weekend.

They had the new version of the SAPR with them.

The lower is now milled from a block of aluminium instead of the stamped steel lower of the earlier version.

Does look a lot better now.
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any idea why they gave up the stamped steel lower? The weight difference can't be that much.

I don't know why they decided to go with black mags either. There was a reason all of the other SG 550 mags were transparent.

Between this and stopping test targets on all their rifles there is a lot of bad decisions being made by swiss arms lately.

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Would make a fine bush gun except one's too short (17.5" SAP-K) and one's too long (22" SAP-R).

18.51" please :)
 
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