“The US Commerce Department has played booster and concierge to the firearm industry, even as America’s mass shootings horrify the world and gun-crime rates rise in many of the importing countries.”
Original article is a Bloomberg piece available at - https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2023-us-made-gun-exports-shootings-violence-sig-sauer/
Bloomberg doesn’t even try to hide it’s bias, try to make it sound like sig has turned into high-point and is just pumping out weapons. They have never been and will never be inexpensive lol. “Rapid fire weaponry” you mean semi-automatic like most weapons since the early 1900s.