Is there any 100% American made gun companies left?

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I know S&W, H&R, colt, mossberg, and remington have all sold, or did sell imports, or at least guns assembled from imported parts.

Winchester is foreign owned now, but I don't know if they're importing guns or not.

What about ruger? I don't ever remember hearing anything about ruger importing any guns and rebadging them.

The keltecs I've owned all had Italian made magazines, so they're out.

I don't know about the AR companies, but it seems like there's a better chance of them being completely US made due to 922r compliance and the fact that there's not any other nations with surplus AR receivers to export to us the way that AKs, FALs, and G3 style rifles are.

So, is there any US companies left that make all the parts of all their guns in the U.S. still?
 
Off the top of my head....

Ruger, Bushmaster, Daniel Defense, Rock River Arms, LWRC, LMT, Remington, Colt, Henry, DPMS, Hi Point, Kimber, Les Baer, Stag Arms, Kel-Tec, Wilson Combat, Kahr Arms, MSAR....
 
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Ruger. Buying off-shore firearms doesn't mean the seller is foreign owned.
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"...the AR companies..." There's only one. Colt. Anything else is a copy.
 
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kind of the same argument with people buying so called "domestic" manufactured cars. except that most of the fords/chevys/etc are made in mexico or canada. globalization has affect gun companies similarly. AFAIK, ruger is 100% american made.
 
The Model 70 is American-made, but FN is a Belgian company.

I suppose if I were to have a country, it'd make beer, chocolate and firearms, too.
 
Aren't the colt .22 ARs german imports?
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They are made by Umarex under license by Colt and I think it was a bad marketing decision on Colt's part to stick their name on them. If Colt really did have a .22 AR I would be all over it, sadly they don't.
 
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"...or Canada..." Nope. The foreign owned car makers(Ford/GM/etc) have been closing Canadian car and parts plants, left, right and centre. Literally thousands have been thrown out of work.
Far more American made vehicles sold in Canada are foreign made. Mind you, most of their production does go Stateside.
Only the Japanese makers have not closed any plants. No over paid($35Cdn per hour for unskilled work), under worked, CAW union plugs in them, as I recall.
 
I'm pretty sure that the high end 1911 makers like Ed Brown, Nighthawk, Wilson, etc as well as the high end AR makers like Larue, Noveske, and LMT are USA made (or almost all USA made).

I may be wrong here, but there the best chances to the best of my knowledge... which may be spotty :)
 
What about you manufacturing your own Firearm? No serial number and 100% American Made.
 
And years in a Federal prison getting to know a large, ugly fellow named Bubba (who isn't really gay, but is simply "satisfying himself" in a place with no women) if the government learns you're manufacturing firearms without a license.

But go ahead and try it, make sure you drop a line once in a while so we know you're enjoying yourself.
 
And years in a Federal prison getting to know a large, ugly fellow named Bubba (who isn't really gay, but is simply "satisfying himself" in a place with no women) if the government learns you're manufacturing firearms without a license.

But go ahead and try it, make sure you drop a line once in a while so we know you're enjoying yourself.
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Wrong.

As long as it conforms to title I regs, it is perfectly legal to manufacture a firearm for personal use. It does not need to have a serial number, either. It's a little trickier if you wanna manufacture a title II weapon, though
 
"...the AR companies..." There's only one. Colt. Anything else is a copy.
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You sure about that? Colt bought the AR-15 design from another company. Hint.... it's what AR stands for, ARmalite.
 
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"...the AR companies..." There's only one. Colt. Anything else is a copy.
You sure about that? Colt bought the AR design from another company. Hint.... it's what AR stands for, ARmalite.
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...and Colt didn't design the 1911 either, JMB did.
 
So for all these gun companies where folks think the guns are 100% American made, do you actually know the source of the raw materials?

...and Colt didn't design the 1911 either, JMB did.
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Sort of. JMB was working under contract for Colt at the time. That makes it a Colt product designed by Colt people. Of course, it wasn't designed just by JMB or Colt people. It went through over 40 changes required by the military. So it was a joint design effort.
 
So for all these gun companies where folks think the guns are 100% American made, do you actually know the source of the raw materials?
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The raw steel and so on? Probably not, but that seems rather hair-splitting to me. If we ask that, then we must also ask where that steel came from before it was overseas. America exports tons of scrap metals for recycling/remanufacturing overseas. It does remind me of a good quote though:

If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe." - Carl Sagan

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