Homemade $10 handguns!

[kurtmax]

I don't suppose we could get one of them to post the plans......

(Administrators, as poor a one as it may seem, that was a joke!!)

It's not illegal to make your own guns in the US...

 

[RPCVYemen]

Actually, what the article doesn't tell you is what the per capita income in Ghana. If it's $1500, that $30 bucks a week. That would mean that a $10 gun is about a 1/3 of a week's pay.

I have guns that cost me less than a 1/3 of a week's pay. If you make $50,000 year, that's like spending $300 on a gun.

Given that (in general) in Africa income is very unevenly distributed - many countries have a few rich and a vast number of poor (with no significant middle class), $10 could well be a week's wages for an average Ghanaian.

The guns may be "cheap" by US standards, but not so cheap in Ghana.

Mike

 

[Shear_stress]

uhhh

Do you think that has anything to do with anything? Because I have more money on average and everything is relative, I should have to pay more for a car?

That makes no sense... Thinking like that is what is killing American innovation and competitiveness.

What exactly is your point? Are you surprised that things are cheaper in countries with dirt cheap labor and low standards of living?

American innovation and competitiveness is what gives us the means to afford the things we do and makes it more expensive to do business here than in developing countries. It's basic economics, not some conspiracy to make you spend more money. Do you think that same car would be $1800 if shipped and sold in the U.S. and brought up to our standards of performance, luxury, safety, and reliability?

To return to the thread, as has been pointed out, $10 guns are cheap by our standards, but still cost a bit in the market's they're sold in.

 

[JImbothefiveth]

There are still starving kids somewhere in Africa... with no guns

Actually, that's a good argument: if they had guns, poor rural farmers could still get food.(They did in America for over 100 years)

 

[mbt2001]

What exactly is your point? Are you surprised that things are cheaper in countries with dirt cheap labor and low standards of living?

American innovation and competitiveness is what gives us the means to afford the things we do and makes it more expensive to do business here than in developing countries. It's basic economics, not some conspiracy to make you spend more money. Do you think that same car would be $1800 if shipped and sold in the U.S. and brought up to our standards of performance, luxury, safety, and reliability?

Yes... I am surprised, that is the point. We are being inundated with "cheap" crap from China / India. We are manufacturing stuff over there. It is a conspiracy that laptops built on outsourcing contracts sell for $200 in India and blooming $1,200 here... That is what is happening! Shoes, same story, clothes, same story, frying pans, tea kettles, EVERYTHING... They are sold in local markets for less, shipped over here and sold at 300% profit rates. There are some costs associated with it, advertising, compliance, importation, but trust me it isn't fair.

Why do you think it is "profitable" to outsource?