I don't hate non USA guns but try to US get them if I can. I have many countries in my safe, but I am a huge fan of STI guns all American made except the Spartan that comes from Armscor, same as RIA. Good guns as well. Springfield is a huge joke the way they portray themselves as an American company, not saying their products are not good just don't care for them.


I do think its kind of funny though that the gun loving American man who goes to rally's for America and preach kill all the illegals on the spot usually carry a glock.....

And that is where thing blurr for me. Some Glocks are made in Smyrna Georgia, so he jobs are here but do the end profits go over to Austria?

Springfield had me fooled for a while till I checked it out and found out the only thing American is the name Springfield Armory. Yes I know they still make some here but it is a fraction of the number of Croatian jobs we are supporting.

Don't get me wrong as I said I have more foreign arms in my safe than domestic. Also mixing of nations has been going on since before John Moses Browning went to France because of a money spat with Colt.

While there are some pistols I would not buy (Croatian ones come to mind) They are more about the pistol than where they are made.
I look at the reliability of the pistol and if it's going to serve my purpose.

For me...if I like it, I buy it! Doesn't matter where it came from. That's just me.

Yes, money leaves us. That is another issue I have with foreign cars but that is another fight for another day.


THANK YOU^ This is the bottom line here, most of I bet have different countries in our safe, I just prefer US. Most of us do but if its a gun we like we buy it that simple.

Something else to consider when thinking about "American made", is just where did the bar stock and other metals that are used in the frames, slides, barrels and all the small parts come from?

Pennsylvania steel mills? I think not, at least not all of it. Try China. Just sayin'....

We don't wan't the Chimp's cousins at RIA to go hungry do we? :D


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