The continuing refrain of the board is to buy the gun not the name. It probably does require 700 hours to build the gun from a bucket of ore to red velure presentations and all that full-colour advertising in quality publications around the world.
My guess is the prestigious maker's profit is many times more than the wages and profits of all the workers and businesses along the way. I don't know why there are suggestions of excessive profit-making. Those who have the money buy the name.
Those who don't, complain.
No one here is knocking British bests---only the price. But consider the value we place on our old American hardware store guns: the extraordinary premium on their originality and higher grades. Who's complaining?
Last edited by King Brown; 05/01/08 01:32 PM.
