SIG Sauer: Lost the Biggest Gun Contract Ever — Then Conquered America Anyway

SIG never set out to make guns. It was a Swiss wagon factory railway cars and carriages that won a rifle contract and then ran into a problem no other gunmaker on Earth had: its own country's neutrality laws made exporting weapons nearly impossible. This is the story of how a company that legally couldn't sell its guns abroad ended up arming the United States military the German partnership that got around the ban, the legendary P226 that lost America's pistol contract by a few dollars in 1985, the Navy SEALs who chose it anyway, and the 32-year wait before SIG took the contract back. A documentary built from the record: the names, the dates, the trials, and the strangest path any gunmaker ever took to the top.