Made in the U.S.A. only

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I buy on quality and features..........

I don't buy on price points. The majority of my guns are probably of U.S. manufacture. If I was starting off today, It would be the inverse. Essex
 
Let's see,

Rifles: Japan, Russia, Bulgaria, Switzerland, USA, Russia, Switzerland, USA.
Pistols: Italy, Brazil, Czechoslovakia, Czechoslovakia , USA
Shotguns: USA,

By the way, you folks who like Honda, they are the only remaining car manufacturer that still sticks its customers with an interference engine. In other words, slip a timing belt and explode the engine. All others just run out of time or quit running until you put on a new belt and set the cam timing.

I don't own any asian made vehicles.
Dodge and Ford pickups
Chevy Suburban
Saab Turbo.:)
 
I've got guns from the US, Germany, Romania, Bulgaria, USSR, Sweden, South Korea, and Argentina.

About 2/3 of my guns were made in the USA, but I don't worry about it.
 
Hm...

Guns...
Argentina: 40%
USA: 40%
Yugoslavia: 10%

Ammo from USA, Mexico, Turkey, Yugoslavia, Korea, Denmark, Spain, Britain.

Knives...
USA: 75%
Switzerland: 25%

Cars:
USA: 67%
Britain: 33%

Sometimes we make the best. Sometimes we don't. *shrug*
 
Most of my guns are US made, and I generally like supporting US manufacturers of quality products. That said, I will buy a quality gun so long as it's not made by the Chinese, as I generally oppose the continued outsourcing of products to China.

My now-sold Browning M1919A4 beltfed was made in the US, exported to Israel, and modified with Israeli components to fire .308.

My XD pistol is made in Croatia. I've owned (and will buy again) Glock pistols made in Austria. I'm considering getting a CZ bolt action .22 rifle, which is obviously made in the Czech Republic. I might own an AI (British made) rifle in the future.

Otherwise, the Ruger, Remington, SA M1 Garand, Mossberg, and Busmaster rifles I own are all made in the US.

I buy US, Czech (S&B), and Russian (Wolf) ammo in great quantities. I buy what's cheap and what works, depending on the situation (I have begun buying more US made, brass cased ammo as I can reload them for cheaper than it costs to buy new non-reloadable stuff).
 
I would rather buy new guns made in the United States. I even avoid foreign made guns that American gun manufacturers are branding as their own, for example, the Spartan line that Remington features.

The Milsurp question is a little hazy for me, since I don't begrudge anyone buying a piece of history along with a great deal. It helps me stick to the "Buy American" that I am now on a "quality, not quantity" kick right now, (Okay, only after filling up a closet with milusrps).

I will probably stick to buying American made arms, unless I get a chance to buy Glocks at 3 for $299 pricing or something ridiculous like that.
 
I didn't do it deliberately, but the best guns for my needs are all made in my home state of Connecticut:

CCW: Colt Detective Special, 1974 (Hartford, CT)
IDPA: Colt 1911 (West Hartford, CT)
Pocket: Seecamp LWS380 (Milford, CT)
Rifle: M1 Garand, Winchester (New Haven, CT)

Didn't plan it that way, just how it worked out.
 
It's not an oxymoron at all, it's simply a matter of what scale you're using.
Of course you're not going to get a hand-fit 1911 for $1.25.

However, compared to our options in the past, a quality new manufactured firearm today is surprisingly inexpensive to what it would have cost someone (in hours of labor, not dollars of course) in years past. Some of that's price pressure from the tons of used and foreign-made arms, and a lot of it from increasingly automated manufacturing techniques I imagine.

That we can still come out ahead these days after all the taxes and lawyering costs is a true testament to what we can do these days I imagine.

Now, to the original question... I prefer American made, but it's not a primary criteria. CZ makes nice stuff. :)


-K
 
S&W
Savage (both US. and Canadian)
H&R
Browning Buckmark (I have no idea where it was built...)
Springfield 1911 (Brazil, right?)
Taurus (Brazil)
Bushmaster
JLD (German and US parts)

Oh, and my Tacoma was 'imported' from California.
 
USA: 2 + 1 (CMP Garand on order)
China: 2*
Yugoslavia: 2*
Germany: 1*
Russia: 1*
Czech Republic: 1
Romania: 1

*milsurp

As they say, there are lies, darn lies, and statistics. In terms of purchase cost, I've spent more than 50% of my gun budget on US firearms. So don't nobody ever go around calling this new citizen unpatriotic. :D
 
Ala Dan said:
I boycott Steyr firearms like the plague, because the company has sold
large caliber weapons to Iran; which were subsequently used by Iraqi
insurgents to kill American and allied forces.
Click to expand...

Steyr sold 800 HS 50 rifles to Iran for use by their border guards against drug smugglers. Absolutely ZERO of those rifles found their way to Iraq. A leftist British newspaper reported incorrectly that the .50 rifles found in Iraq were indeed Steyr when in fact they were copies of HS50 rifles.

Here's an article explaining the situation in German
Here it is translated loosely to English by Google.


If its just trade with Iran that you oppose, then you need to find out who all these companies are and boycott them too.

As for Steyr, our own government it partially to blame for the sale of .50 rifles to the Iranians ... it needs to be easier for foreign arms makers to bring their products to the American market ... I'd much rather see those .50 rifles in the hands of American sportsmen than Iranian cops.

As for me, I could care less if something is made in the US or not. When it comes to cars I actually prefer foreign because I don't want to give a penny to the UAW so they can use the money to elect Democrats and push for gun control.
 
I buy price points, sometimes. I have no choice.

Yes, I could buy an American-made trap single, but I can't afford it. The only ones on the market are custom-built, or antiques.

Browning's BT-99 could be made by an American company, but nobody does. So I got the Browning. Ruger announced a trap single some years ago, but for somet reason, they never hit the market.

I also bought an 870 Express. Far and away the best field beater out there, inexpensive, and American-made.

There are things I won't stoop to, though.:)
 
I would rather buy new guns made in the United States. I even avoid foreign made guns that American gun manufacturers are branding as their own, for example, the Spartan line that Remington features.

Milsurps are a little hazy for me, but it helps that I am now on a "quality, not quantity" kick right now, (after filling up a closet with them).

I will probably stick to buying American made arms, unless I get a chance to buy Glocks at 3 for $299 pricing or something ridiculous like that.
 
Of course the whole 'sending money to overseas manufacturers' thing only works with new guns...Milsurps and used guns have already made their money for the manufacturer. You're not doing Winchester or Remington, etc a bit of good by buying a used one. I don't know about you, but about half of my guns were bought used.
 
that isn't something i really concern myself with i do own a few anerican but that is definetly not something i look for in a gun maker. some of the greatest guns ever devised were non us. sigs, glocks xd's etc!
 
I find it hilarious that people think that Dodge trucks are still American. A foreign owned company that makes it's trucks in Mexico. Does anyone not read the fine print on the sticker where country of origin is described?

Not my Honda. Great car, made right here in the USA. Ahhh the irony...
 
what scurtis_34471 said on the issue of china...

I buy the best quality at a reasonable price. If that's american, great, if it's indian, great...

my collection comes from:

america
russia
finland
croatia
brazil
india


Wow only 6 countries... I need to do more shopping.
 
USA?

No made-in-China crap in this house. Never. Mine are from:

USA: 4
Czech: 1

"The beatings will continue until morale improves." -- Chinese Communist Party

"The crab instructs its young, "Walk straight ahead - like me." -- Hindustani proverb

"The revolution, like Uranus, eventually devours all its children."
 
I TRY as much as possible to buy American made or American owned.

Sorry to be blunt, but any American who does not is an idiot. Many will find this out in the long run and in a brutal way.

I own firearms made in 6 foreign countries however, and have owned vehicles made in 4 foreign countries.

The biggest POS car I ever owned was a Mercedes. The best a Pontiac Gran Prix.

I don't need some out of date, testing year old products, illegally billing magazine like Consumer Reports to try and give me info.

The ONLY firearms that I have ever owned that truly had a mechanical problem were a SIG P228 and SIG P220 (they refused to call it a recall. Hey FATTSGALORE, at least Ford has the integrity to call it what it is.), and a Glock G31 (want to see a grown man scream? Use the word recall around Glock).

It really will be funny when your children are trying to fight off Islamofascists and there is no company in the USA capable of making the tools for them to defend themselves.
 
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