The Chinese Have Landed...

[jlv08]

A question was posted by a member in reference to Norinco and the PLA of China.

I don't have an answer, but I do know some nice folks from Mainland China that don't share the same beliefs that the Chinese Communist leaders do.

Yes they are a threat but as of late , I haven't seen too many wearing bomb laced panties boarding our aircraft.

I think we, as a nation are way more in danger with Islamic extremists and have a full plate with that aspect of threat to our nation.

I would like to know how we wound up with so many military issue SKS rifles from China?

I remember that they were brought in by the boxcar loads off ships from China and could be purchased around the gunshows for about 80.00 bucks.

They were PLA rifles no doubt and armed their army.

We enjoy the spoils of rapprochment and still complain.

Didn't the Soviet model of Communism poop the cot in the last few years?

I, for one am happy with my little Chinese made pump and also have enjoyed another product of Chinese origin.

They make some of the finest acoustic guitars I have ever played and the reason is that their workers have to attend luthier schools and most are musicians.


In the meantime, I applaud Lee on his objectivity and his effort to enlighten us regarding these shotguns that have stirred the interests of those of us in this forum.

It's good that we can all enjoy being enlighted informed and knowledge is power.

A BIG THANK YOU FOR YOUR EFFORT, LEE.

 

[jlv08]

Broom,
H&R are owned by the Cerebus group and Remington is part of that group. The law department of these companies as well as most companies probably have squared away any infringements of design regarding manufacture of these guns.

If you want to talk about copycats, the Japanese are the worst of the bunch and Indonesia is coming up fast ,too.

The Japanese built some of the best Les Paul copy guitars ( Yes, I know, it's not a firearm but the principal is the same.) and got sued royaly.

Fender did the same with the strat copies with a suit filed against the Chinese guitar makers and lost.

This put some of the Chinese makers out of bussiness due to law costs. Fender has money long as train smoke.

I'm no lawyer but I don't think H&R is run by a bunch of fools.

This is the world of free trade and our elected politicians have ushered this in to let companies go offshore to manufacture goods too expensive to make here.

The Japanese made a real nice Auto-5 shotgun for years as Belgium, for whatever reason, was not making them.

Didn't Japan bomb Pearl Harbor in WW II ?