Transparency is essential for healthy markets, well informed and discerning buyers keep the trade alive. KY Jon goes to the point in his last paragraph. Being able to find out whether there are apples and oranges in the same basket and being able to tell the difference is expected in a free and informed society (Isn´t this what most of us have been fighting for in our respective countries for the last half a century?).
TDS´s statement on liabilities bearing on outworkers is very telling. Why a company would come to that kind of practise? The answer is simple: some gun makers want to keep their outsoursing out of the market´s knowledge.
Dig gave us some examples of companies not going and going sometimes to the trade, helpful information in my view. But what about others like William & Son, Aspreys, William Evans, Jeffery or William Powell?
So, the question remains open.
