Popular firearms manufacturers and dealers in Germany
Germany has, among all the European nations, the broadest reputation for technical building of firearms. In the last century it was dominated by the name Mauser, and more recently Walther and H&K are the names most commonly associated with German arms making. Disarmed after each of both the World Wars, German engineering of weapons designs always won reconsideration for their novelty and application in a wider global view, be it in a Cold War or a war on terror.