After going thru this thread and reading about how the venerable 870 has faired as of late, I noticed some comments about "cheap Chinese crap".
I will inform you that Remington is part of a group that is bringing in "cheap Chinese crap" and other manufacturers are doing the same like Stoeger.
I took the plunge and bought two "cheap Chinese crap " shotguns and will tell you that they are NOT crap!
I will state that I have owned and repaired quite a few firearms of all makes and living here in Tidewater, Va, where folks hunt deer over hounds, the shotgun is employed 100% of the time.
I've been inside Remingtons, Winchesters,and Mossbergs mainly and most of the time neglect and cleaning issues where the problem.
I've seen the rust bucket Expresses more than I care to say and Mossbergs rattle like a dog passing a peach pit.
I've worked with metals all my life and my NEF pumps, for example, have some very good metal and machining in them. NO PLASTIC!! Real walnut stocks and forearms.
Not bad for "cheap Chinese crap".
MyChicom SKS has also been a great shooter and dead nuts reliable.
When our elected officials sourced out American jobs, they sourced out quality.
Folks overseas know that they can produce good quality for less and this has proven itself in some areas.
Don't take this as a defense of Regimes that suppress human rights.
The people who build "cheap Chinese/Turkish/ Spanish/Japanese/etc Junk" don't even have the right to own weapons like we do and if they make a firearm that I can rely on, say in the case that has been proven by the performance of my SKS and Pardners, I'll buy "em and do so without worrying about surface rust or a forearm that won't cycle due to a stuck shell.
That's my two cents.