> Honestly, this all smells like an overblown hysteria campaign to pump American brands.

Sig Sauer, Inc is an American company, and M17/M18 are manufactured solely in US. Afaik the design is also from US.

> Sig Sauer, Inc is an American company

It appears to be the American half of a German-owned transnational company: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SIG_Sauer

The German company and American company are clearly related, given the German company is alleged to have manufactured and shipped firearms to the American company with falsified end-user certificates, which the American company then resold to Colombia in violation of German law: https://www.nhpr.org/post/ceo-nh-gun-maker-facing-five-years...