Swiss Arms

About

SIG, standing for Schweizerische Industrie Gesellschaft (Swiss Industrial Company), is a Swiss group with a historically major involvement with firearm manufacture. The group was originally founded as Schweizerische Waggon Fabrik (Swiss Wagon Factory) in 1853 by Friedrich Peyer im Hof, Heinrich Moser, and Johann Conrad Neher. The company entered a rifle design competition for the Swiss Army around 1860s, which they won and are awarded with a contract for the production of their Prelaz-Burnand rifle. This prompted the company to shift its focus and begin its firearm manufacturing production, as well as renaming itself to SIG in 1860.

SIG would continue to expand its firearm manufacturing capabilities in the following decades, with many of its weapons adopted by the Swiss Army. They produced the Mondragón Rifle in early 1900s and developed the SIG P210 in 1937. The company purchased J. P. Sauer & Sohn and Hammerli in 1970, and entered a partnership with the German Sauer due to Swiss laws preventing firearm export, creating SIG Sauer GmbH from which they could expand into the global market. SIG also created SIGARM Inc. in the United States to import its weapons into USA.

SIG today no longer manufactures weapons, and are instead a major player in the food packaging industry. In 2000, to refocus its manufacturing on to food packaging, all of SIG's firearm manufacturing subsidiaries and subdivisions were sold to Michael Lüke and Thomas Ortmeier. SIG's own firearm division became Swiss Arms, and is now a part of the Lüke & Ortmeier Gruppe. Many of Swiss Arm's weapons are imported into USA by SIGARM Inc., now named SIG Sauer Inc.

Specifications

Founded: 1853 (SIG), 2000 (Swiss Arms)

Country: Switzerland

Products: Pistols, Assault Rifles, Sniper Rifles, Machine Guns, Grenade Launchers

Guns

Pistols

Weapon	Caliber(s)	Capacity	Produced	Variants	Image
SIG P210	9x19mm	8	1949-2003 2010-Present

Submachine Guns

Weapon	Caliber(s)	Capacity	Produced	Variants
SIG M1920	7.63×25mm Mauser 9×25mm Mauser 7.65×21mm Parabellum 9×19mm Parabellum	50	1920 - 1927
SIG MKMS	7.65x22 mm Luger 7.63x25 mm Mauser 9x19 mm Luger 9x25 mm Mauser	30, 40	1934-1941	MKMS MKPS MKMO MKPO
SIG MP-310	9x19mm Parabellum	40	Late 1940s - 1972	MP-48

Rifles

Weapon	Caliber(s)	Capacity	Produced	Variants
SIG SG 510	7.5mm Swiss 7.62x51mm NATO	20, 24, 30 20, 24, 30	1957-1983
SIG SG 540	5.56x45mm	20, 30	1977-2002	SIG SG 543
SIG SG 542	7.62x51mm NATO	20, 30	??
SIG SG 550	5.56x45mm NATO	5, 20, 30 round proprietary box magazine	1986-Present
SIG SG 551	5.56x45mm NATO	5, 20, 30	90s-Present
SIG SG 552	5.56x45mm NATO	5, 20, 30	1998-Present	SIG SG 553
SIG SG 556	5.56x45mm NATO	5, 20, 30	2006-Present
SIG SG 751 SAPR	7.62x51mm NATO	20	2009-Present