 After the end of the war the gun was captured and presented to then General, Dwight Eisenhower, and it is now on display in the NRA Museum in Fairfax.In 1942 Karl Paul Merkel died, and by 1943 the production of hunting weapons came to a virtual halt.After the war the production of hunting weapons commenced, and in 1952 the company became owned by the government of the German Democratic Republic (East Germany).