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Steyr Arms controversies

Controversies tied to this brand in public sources. A listing is not a finding of fault.

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  1. 1940

    Forced labor in the wartime Steyr industrial system

    During the Second World War, the Steyr factories were part of the German wartime industrial system and used forced labor, including prisoners associated with the Steyr-Münichholz subcamp of Mauthausen. This history concerns the wartime corporate organization from which the later firearms business descended.

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