I Can't Take It Any More!!!

[BigBoreFan]

While not a shotgun there in a FN manufacturing plant in the United States http://www.fnmfg.com/ They make FNP pistols, M 249/240 machine guns and less than lethal devices. Good tour if you can get it. I am a fan of the New Ithaca, but you do pay for it.

 

[Walking Dead]

I'm the same way on so much stuff. Mostly tools and knives because of the quality difference not because of the old "buy American" slogans. With guns quality is pretty awesome everywhere. It's hard to be committed to buying American when companies are not committed to manufacturing here.

 

[Dutchman01]

It's my understanding browning now makes winchester model 70s in the carolinas now. I'm thinking about one of them in .06.

 

[OhioChief]

Insult to injury, I thought my Shepherd Scope was made in the USA too..... I really need to pay more attention!

 

[Rembrandt]

Seeing who the labor unions throw their support behind......I would be more upset about buying a gun produced by a labor union manufacturer than I would about which country it came from.

 

[MCgunner]

I'm doing everything I can to buy Made in the USA, with every decision I make.

Glad I don't have that problem. I'd be missing out on a lot of good stuff. If Harley was the only motorcycle I could buy, I'd just have to give up motorcycles. If I had to buy from Detroit, I guess I'd walk.

Make it affordable and with enough quality, I'll buy it. I may get a Mossberg 935 some day. I have hunted waterfowl with a 500 for 20 years. It's seen a lot of steel shot and I'm sure it'll last me the rest of MY life. I have an old Winchester 1400 made in the USA. I bought it because it was a good gun for a good price, not because it was made here.

Browning is a high quality gun. Fear not where it was made, you DID get a superior product.

Seeing who the labor unions throw their support behind......I would be more upset about buying a gun produced by a labor union manufacturer than I would about which country it came from.

I HEARD THAT! +1!

 

[bergmen]

Also, don't forget that there are a lot of countries that buy products made in the USA. If they decided to buy only domestic products it would really put the hurt on a lot of American businesses.

When I started working for HP (Hewlett Packard) back in 1988 fully half of the annual business ($12 billion at the time) was made up of foreign sales. This percentage increased over time. Many large (and some small) companies report large overseas sales figures.

The perceptive buyer can make good choices in products based on a number of market conditions, country of origin being one of them. Personally, I try to avoid products made in China for the most part for a lot of personal reasons.

I never give it a thought when buying firearms. It is the company, the model, the reputation, the performance that counts. USA, Austria, Japan, Belgium, Italy, and Brazil (unfortunately) are the countries represented in my gun safe at the moment.

Dan

 

[MCgunner]

Well, let's see, easy if I just keep it to shotguns....4 american, 1 russian, one spanish.

 

[whalerman]

Make up for it by buying a bunch of American made ammo and shoot hell out of it.
Enjoy and be safe.

 

[Wolfsbane]

Unions have priced American labor out of the market. You don't have to look any further than Detroit to see the results.

Dollar a day earning Chinese workers have priced Americans out of the job market. You couldn't feed yourself here for what they earn over there.

Owen Sparks wrote

Unions have priced American labor out of the market. You don't have to look any further than Detroit to see the results.

 

[tahoe2]

curious?

are Savage, Ruger, and Smith & Wesson, Remington still made here?
mine are made from 1951 to the mid 80's, and a couple of Mossberg 500's(12 & 20) from the 90's
but I must confess I have several mausers, German, Spanish, & Yugoslavian & a couple of Turk shotguns.

 

[Mp7]

Not buying Saudi oil would be the most important thing

 

[orphanedcowboy]

Not buying Saudi oil would be the most important thing

Better look at who the number #1 importer of oil to the US is, that would be Canada. Saudi Arabia is #2


Consider that the economy is global, if we only bought inside our borders we would need far, far fewer workers because we would have to drastically curtail manufacturing. Why would you want to sell to 311,591,917 people when you can have a potential market of 6,840,507,003 people, that is nearly 25 times the market of the US alone.

I work for a global firm, we sell in every market around the globe less a few on the US's "bad" list. We have nearly 10,000 employees, we would need about 1/5 that many to support just the US market. That would add another 7500 people to the unemployment roster in our company alone not counting the domino effect to those that handle the product once it leaves our facility.

 

[Mp7]

...@OrphanedC

My point exactly.

(But Canada is a nice country. And Saudi
on the other hand is funding the whole middle east problem,
which in turn puts immense costs on the US budget.)

i find it amazing to even hear these isolationist ideas coming
from a country that invented and spread the idea of free enterprise.