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That's right. I remember Don having to go to Germany to negotiate the Steyr line. He ended up becoming the world-wide importer for their product and assembled himself a great team of folks there in Trussville. His gunsmith was a German fellow (Herman or Herbert, something like that) that Steyr had moved to the states to support their product. All of his tools that he used to work on the guns he had hand-made at a young age in Seoul. He was a man of few words as his English wasn't too sporty. It seems that only a few years after being named importer, the BATF seized a large shipment of AUG's at Birmingham airport in front of the waiting media who immediately broadcasted. It was a political stunt orchestrated by the "those in charge" and it aggravated an already touchy subject - "assault weapons."