August A3sa American semi-automatic rifles entered the United States with twists and turns.

Steyr AUG rifle came out in 1970' s, which is made of a large number of engineering plastics, with a modular design and no supporting structure. The optical sight is integrated with the gun body. At that time, these designs were very advanced. The U.S. Immigration Bureau and the U.S. Customs used to be equipped with carbine AUG rifles, and the demand for AUG rifles in the U.S. law enforcement and civilian markets has been great. However, in 1986, the FOPA86 Act passed by the United States stipulated that no matter domestic machine guns or foreign machine guns (the United States will collectively refer to repeating weapons as machine guns), those manufactured after 1986 May 19 will not accept private registration. The passage of the bill made it impossible for AUG rifles to enter the American market. 1994, the United States even issued a "ban on offensive weapons (validity period 10 year)". Therefore, the AUG rifles that flowed into the American people before 1986 became a hot potato. An AUG A 1 rifle can offer up to $5,000. However, Steyr-Manlixia of Austria never gave up his efforts to export AUG to the United States.

1997, Steyr-Manlixia found that the United States could import "SportingRifles, and immediately took action to change the AUG rifle into a semi-automatic rifle that met the American" sports "rifle standard, and named it the AUG USR semi-automatic rifle. A total of 3,000 of these AUG USR semi-automatic rifles entered the United States. Shortly after that, US President Bill Clinton personally ordered that this semi-automatic rifle be banned from entering the United States, but before that, 3,000 AUG USR semi-automatic rifles were not counted. Of course, these 3000 AUGURSR semi-automatic rifles can't meet the American civilian market, so after President Bush took office, two "American clone versions" of imitation AUGURSR rifles appeared in the American market. This situation makes Steyr Manlietia unable to sit idly by. They decided to use a new method to attack the American civilian market-that is, to change the production location-and put AUG rifles into domestic production in the United States, thus avoiding the import ban bill. In 2007, Steyr Manlixia USA cooperated with Sabre-defense to produce AUG A3 version of civil rifles in the United States. The gun was named AUG A3 SAUSA semi-automatic rifle, and the "SA" in the gun name is the abbreviation of "semi-automatic", which means "semi-automatic", that is, only one bullet can be fired. In terms of quality, the gun is by no means inferior to the Austrian AUG rifle.