Evey kindly contacted me to alert me to the fact that a major arms company is based in Nottingham.
“Not many Nottingham residents are aware of it, but the city is home to a major multinational arms company. An anonymous warehouse on an industrial estate in Lenton is the UK headquarters of Heckler & Koch – the world’s second largest manufacturer of handguns, assault rifles, submachine guns, machine guns and grenade launchers…
The company has shipped guns from the UK to warzones such as Bosnia[3] and Nepal[4], and has licensed its weapons for production by regimes with poor human rights records such as Turkey, Mexico, Thailand, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Myanmar[5]. Furthermore the company effectively evaded UK and EU export restrictions when these licensees sold H&K weapons on to conflict zones including Indonesia[6], Sri Lanka[7] and Sierra Leone[4].”
Follow the link below to read more.
http://nottsantimilitarism.wordpress.com/heckler-koch/
July 14, 2009 at 9:43 pm
Please tell us Nottingham residents something that we don’t already know.
H&K employs former ROF Nottingham Staff. Of Which ROF Nottingham provided gun barrels for Iraqi T-33 and T-55 tanks in the 1980’s
Also ROF Nottingham made the Iraqi Supergun.
Also Boots PLC still makes mustard gas. I suggest you take a walk along the canal at the back of Boots PLC HQ at 2am in the morning, as your eyes will sting.
Guys, I suggest you start doing some proper research…. yawn yawn yawn…..