[5] After the two Germanies were unified in 1990, the factories involved in production of the StG-940s were closed as they were not interested in further marketing small arms of the former East German government.

[3] Orders made by India and Peru were rendered invalid and the new German government agreed to pay penalty fees due to the cancellation of contracts.

[4] It was reported that Federal Intelligence Service agents removed confidential files related to the StG rifles in 1993 without sharing the information to the rest of the German government.

[6] This came after Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk aired a report by Andreas Wolter, who was looking for more information from East German government files.

[2] This was done to evade restrictions placed on East German assault rifle production of their AK-74 variants imposed in order to prevent competition against the Soviets[2] based on their licensing agreement to not export any AK-74s made in East German soil abroad.