Dan Wesson Firearms vs Heckler & Koch

Side by side, from the public record each company was imported from. Where a figure is missing it is because no source we hold states it — not because it is zero.

Heckler & Koch is the older of the two, founded in 1949 — 19 years before Dan Wesson Firearms.

Founded: 1968; 1949
Status: Closed 1996; Active
Headquarters: Norwich, United States; Oberndorf am Neckar, Germany
Industry: weapons industry; weapons industry
Founders: Daniel B. Wesson II; Alex Seidel, Edmund Heckler, Theodor Koch
Employees: Not recorded; 923
Legal form: Not recorded; Gesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung
Website: cz-usa.com/products_dan_wesson.php; heckler-koch.com

Facts on both companies come from the public records named on Dan Wesson Firearms and Heckler & Koch.