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Originally Posted by Ducimus
I make no apologies for my love of country, and firm belief that the things we use should be made here.
EDIT: By the way, the M9, while an italian design is made in the US, so you can remove the picture of the Beretta 92fs.
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I will not because the parent company is Italian and therefore the capital goes to the Italian owners.Also some of the parts are still made outside the US.
What does love of your country have anything to do with it? I love my country yet do not share your opinion on this matter.I am no fan of globalization but international trade and international exchange of ideas and weapons among your allies is really a good thing not bad and the US benefits far more from selling of gear to others how many nations fly F-16s and AH-64s,SH-60s,C-130s? Plenty we buy relatively inexpensive small arms they buy very expensive aircraft it is a good trade off.
A good military will rise to the challenge of any supply issue hell in the Marines they always joke about the quality of most gear in WWII they came up with genius ways to solve logistical and parts problems.In my job in the Air Force we where always low on funds and the brass would tell us do not order a new part make the old one work take two broken machines and make one working one and we did it murphy's law nothing goes according to plan plan for failures plan for things to go wrong find a way to solve the problem that was the mentality in my units. Remember everything that you use was made by the
lowest bidding contractor regardless of where it came from.