WHY "Made in the USA"

[Harve Curry]

I reload and buy all USA components.
22's and muzzleloaders to, all USA.

 

[Phil DeGraves]

WHY "Made in the USA"

Because it is easier to get parts if necessary.

 

[unisonic12]

It's sort of funny how no one cares where the bullets they shoot are/were made.

Uh, maybe because foreign sources are the only way to get it? I don't see any domestically produced 5.45 x 39 for my AK-74.

 

[unisonic12]

Because it is easier to get parts if necessary.

Really? Parts for my Glock are a dime a dozen and available everywhere. I say this because the OP was about guns.

If we're talking cars, I've NEVER had problems getting any parts for my Hondas.

US made? Had to wait a week for a back ordered part at the dealer for my wife's...Saturn. Back when I had a new POS Jeep Cherokee, the O2 sensor went out at 7,000 miles, stalled the engine and gave me a check engine light. It started back up and I drove it to the dealer only to have it sit for TWO FRIGGIN' WEEKS because the sensor was back ordered and they said I had to leave it because it could damage the engine if I kept driving it and the warranty would be violated. Oh, sorry, we don't do loaner cars, either. I asked them to pull a sensor off a vehicle in the lot and let THEM wait two weeks, but no...they don't "cannibalize". I asked if they would reimburse me for buying an OEM sensor at an auto parts store and they said no even though it was well under warranty. This is the same Jeep that dropped the exhaust system from the manifold header back to and including the muffler TWICE within 20k miles. :roll:

And they wonder why that's the last American car I ever bought. My wife's POS Saturn is only there because that's what she had when we got married. It will NOT be replaced by another one.

 

[blackguns]

When talking about commodity type products i.e. nuts, bolts, small appliances....all the stuff sold in the dollar store and 95% of the stuff sold at Lowes, Walmart & Target the quality is awful. It is cheap but it is CHEAP.

I have customers that buy nuts, bolts, washers and other high volume commodity type products from me not because I am as cheap as over seas but because 100% of what I ship is right. If they need something changed I walk out to the production floor and change it. If they need it tomorrow I deliver it, I provide a decent place to work for my few employees because I get good money for doing a good job.

If we as consumers were willing to shop for "MADE IN THE USA" and pay a fair price for a QUALITY product we would support our own economy. Things that are not quality don't get purchased and the good products survive.

I know of a high end reloading equipment company that is looking for USA suppliers to make some of the dies, tools and other components that they sell. Absolutely no doubt he could buy them cheaper off shore than from me, but he is rightfully obsessed with quality and will only work with companies that share his obsession.

Would you keep buying reloading equipment from Company X if you saw the quality of the product slide? Even if it was cheaper?

Quality is worth the cost but we as consumers can't even tell the difference anymore.

 

[twoclones]

Why do our guns have to made in the USA?

To give jobs to Americans.

 

[rogertc1]

Bail out GM with my tax $'s so the union fork truck driver can still Make $75,000 and get the same amount when retired.
It is a wonder we still have manufacturing jobs in the USA at least for now.