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Message: [QUOTE="Cold_Collation, post: 10540682, member: 49715"] There are plenty of high-added-value manufacturing, machining and fabricating businesses in the UK that could build weapons. And I mean plenty, and before we get to Industry 4.0. It doesn't need to be an arms company. A weapon is just a bunch of machined, stamped and moulded bits. You might need some additional security when you've put all those bits together but that's about it; if I gave you a box of 1,000 firing pins for an M-16 what use would they be to you without the rest of the weapon? A lot of this was discussed in the CR2 replacement thread before that got derailed and binned. The question is whether you'd open a specific plant to make weapons specifically for an organisation that will be the size of the [I]future[/I] British Army. It was a different proposition when we had millions under arms. [/QUOTE]