Well, we don't make many doubles in this country--period. Haven't for quite some time. And we're never likely to make many at that price point, unless maybe Ruger can get its Gold Label problems straightened out.
Better to have illegals making them in this country than Turks making them in an American-owned plant in Turkey? Not as far as I'm concerned. You guys follow the news on the ICE raids on the Swift meatpacking plants? One of those is just down the road from me, and not only did they scoop up over 1,000 illegals (total, in all the plants they raided), but they also discovered lots of them were into identity theft--which was one of the reasons behind the raids in the first place. Out my way, the meatpacking industry used to pay very good wages. They don't any more, because they found that immigrants--legal or otherwise--were willing to work for a whole lot less. So much for thousands of good paying, blue collar jobs. Would not want to see that happen to the sad remnants of the American gun industry.
Lots of issues at work here. How do we feel about buying Toyota and Nissan pickups, vs Ford/Chevy/Dodge, now that the former are being made in this country--by American workers, but foreign-owned companies?
To paraphrase the Clinton Administration: "It's the global economy, stupid!" We may not like it, but we pretty much have to live with it--although no one's holding a gun to anyone's head to buy a gun made in Turkey, whether marketed by an American company like S&W or a Czech outfit like CZ.
