Hj - I don't disagree with you on :sharp" dealer's sales pitch. However, there are non-dealer guys out there who can easily form a valid opinion of the OQ of a gun, name or not. Not all big name guns are gems and not all no-namers are lumps of coal.

In the time of the German village gunmaker, everyone who could afford a gun (everyone wanted a gun) went to the village maker. Everyone knew who made everyone elses' gun - the village maker. It would, therefore, have been rude for the maker to have put his name on it. From the current USA viewpoint, that may not compute, but there have been other view points on guns than curent USA.