Larry, I wasnt specifically referring to guns with that line. But you make a good point. All the lack of a bigAmerican brand name means is that recognition and acceptance will take a few years longer.
Thats assuming they continue as have....upping the quality level they can and do produce.
Brand names are simply a code that tells us something about the product. And lots of them rise and fall. But once well established, a good brand name has amazing staying power. Consumers like shortcuts.
As far as stack barrels and competing against Browning and Beretta goes....there was a time when it was laughable to imagine Toyota, Honda and Nissan challenging the Big Three in NA. Simply laughable. Then, while we were laughing, the Big Three had their asses handed to them so badly that by the end of the last decade, two of three needed government bailouts. Complacency can be a [censored].
There was a time when Beretta meant little to American consumers. Same with Perazzi. If your competition is hungry and means business, look out. The only question that remains is are the Turks really committed. Truly, that's the only question. I've seen it in too many other areas of consumer products. Guns aren't somehow magical in that they can only be made in the places they have always been made by those who always made them.
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