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I'm primarily an American double gun fan, but do have some foriegn guns. Most recently, it was a Beschi produced NID copy in .410. There is that Parker Repro in 28g too. But I prefer true American doubles.
What's in your safe?
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That is exactly my feelings also. When I see the evidence in a store, I leave without buying. I stopped going to Walmart some years ago because of the alien produced products. I encourage all who read this to join in and purchase only U.S.A products and help bring the jobs back home where they belong. Will this pertain to guns too? Are yall willing to boycott AYA, Purdey, Winchester, Beretta, Perazzi, Miroku, Grulla, Holland & Holland, Caesar Guerini, Browning, FN, Rizzini, Merkel? I guess that leaves Remington, Ruger and CSMC. Adam
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In our safe there are L.C. Smith, Parker, Ruger and Remington long guns.....Colt, S&W, Ruger, and Remington hand guns - CBB
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All across the South, foreign car companies have built plants. Honda, Nissan, Kia, Toyota, Hyundai, and Mercedes. They pay well, have great benefits, and were enticed to come her because of low taxes and a union free work force.
3 things are killing American businesses.... taxes, unions, and America's addiction to cheap prices. Most people want a good price. The orgin doesn't matter.
Don't get me wrong.... I prefer to buy American when possible BUT not all costs.
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Don't get me wrong.... I prefer to buy American when possible BUT not all costs. My feelings as well.
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For American car companies, I'd say management is at least as much as fault as unions. These managers typically get paid a lot of money and have made many bad decisions over the last few decades. For example; Chrysler K car, Ford Explorer exploding tires, Ford Pinto exploding gas tanks, plus a thousand small decisions that we don't know about but pay for everytime our American car breaks down.
The same can be said for just about every declining American industry.
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Only a 16 gauge Ithaca double built in 1936 is under the dresser. I don't NEED anything else, I may WANT something besides that but I don't NEED it. And a Ford pick up in my drive way I think its over 300,000 miles now maybe a little less. 
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The "problem" of free trade is that it's here, it is what it is. It's globalization, the way of the world, our countries voted for it, at the polls and from our pockets. Money has no conscience, steel was once the measure of industrial strength. Look where the money and steel resides now. The notion of buying and selling local, taking in each others' wash, is a quaint idea. Canada and the US are exporting juggernauts; trade in innovation and resources across our border alone is more than $1 billion every day. I was brought up to believe competition, private enterprise, open markets would make healthier, happier, democratic societies. Everyone here knows what done us in. It wasn't the unions or political party of any stripe.
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3 things are killing American businesses.... taxes, unions, and America's addiction to cheap prices. Most people want a good price. The orgin doesn't matter.
Amen...........Plus: #4 is the TORT system in this country....every new product manufactured here has a significant "value added" to the cost to cover frivolous law suits.... #5 is Government interference and rediculous manufacturing laws that have driven volumes of manufacturing out of the U.S.....which started the offshore boom in manufacturing years ago...."why build in the U.S.A.".... IT'S NOT COST EFFECTIVE.... There went all the jobs......Gov't, Union and Tort inflicted damage......
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" . . . every new product manufactured here has a significant "value added" to the cost to cover frivolous law suits . . ."
They are all frivolous lawsuits until it is your child who ends up with brain damage on the operating table due to a defective anethesia machine, or your wife becomes a parapalegic due to a defective step ladder, etc. (and by "your" I mean the generic "your", not anyone specifically).
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