Astra Arms (Switzerland) STG4 Commando

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Astra Arms S.A. - Switzerland

In the year 2008, 100 years after the foundation of Esperanza y Unceta (Astra Unceta y Cía), a Swiss firearms manufacturing company, founded by the Italian entrepreneur Massimo Garbarino and located in the city of Sion, has adopted the name Astra Arms S.A. and took over the rights on the Astra trademark.[2] Although the company website is yet "Under Construction" as for early April 2009, official company literature states that Astra Arms S.A. will "manufacture handguns and rifles for self-defence, target shooting, professional training and law enforcement"; the company registration available on the Internet, states its activities as "Production, commerce, maintenance and reparation of firearms of all sorts and ammunitions, as well as of electronic, mechanical and other optical accessories".[3] Astra Arms S.A. has established a manufacturing line for high level 1911-type pistols (the U.S. model and the Daytona model), as well as a manufacturing line for AR-15 rifles (the StG-15 & StG-4 models), to be distributed on those civilian markets which are at the time lacking similar American products, whose export requires the issue of an End user certificate. At present times, the Astra Arms S.A. products are distributed on the Italian and Swiss civilian markets.[4][5]


Those caught my eye as well...
 
I met them in Switzerland. The rifles appeared to be very nicely done. European Arms is set to distribute them here.
 
I've just had one in my hands and there is nothing there that would justify $2K price tag. I guess that by "reincarnation" of Astra name in Switzerland is not necessarily going to make their products fly of the shelves.
 
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