of third world undeveloped nations employing sweatshop labor and importing truckloads of slop pistols with pennies worth of margin into our country and outcompeting our own domestic arms manufacturing industry?Say what you want about Ruger, and I will agree with those who say that 99% of what Ruger makes is turboslop also made in a sweatshop by people who probably receive food stamps... but at least they're made in the USA still. It is incredibly concerning how many (American) people unironically wish that we could import guns from China into the US.Should tariffs be applied to these foreign guns, the proceeds of which go toward funding domestic CNC and arms manufacturing?
Nah fuck us companies they should be making a good product but they cant even do that. Giving them another bailout just so they can keep making dogshit helps nothing. It just encourages them to fuck up more.
You sound young. Ask a boomer what it was like when all we had were god awful american cars that broke all the time and were shit to drive and exploded into a fireball with the slightest impactAsk a boomer what it was like when all we had were gas pipe schwinns and coaster brakes while europe and japan were innovating with derailleurs and lugged steelProtectionism kills innovation by allowing bloated monstrosities to monopolize markets. Sure, short term you'll get a nice little dopamine jolt thinking you "did good" and helped your neighbor. But your neighbor will be unemployable soon with skills developed on production lines that belong in a factory from 50 years ago
>>65085656>but at least they're made in the USA stillGuns made in the USA have god awful quality control.Barely better than Turkey
>>65085656I won that at an elk foundation banquet back in 2007 for $20. Use your own pic to start a thread next time, fatso
The whole reason why hipsters embraced "made i USA" in the '00s and '10s was because conventional wisdom was that it signaled mediocrity and high prices. Buying domestic was literally counterculture. It was a way of virtue signaling that you'd take one for the team and you could afford to deal with the consequences.
>>65085708It looks like junk. Gaudy, ugly. I wouldn't own this gun even for free. It is a shame you would even consider taking a photo of it and posting it to the internet.
>>65085667American cars of that era can actually be worked on and repaired.
>>65085717You know what's better than something you can fix with a hammer and a grease gun?Something you don't need to fix!
>>65085715You’ve clearly never been to a hunting association banquet lol, half the prizes are weird shit like that
>>65085656>cheap guns from foreign sweatshopsnothign new about that, tons of shit-tier guns have been imported from Belgium and Spain for literal centuries.>but at least they're made in the USA The funny thing about this is how so many people talk about how domestic manufacture is important to them, but you wen you look at how they actually spend their money they don't really give a shit. Often times it's situational--think about how many boomers bitched about "Jap Scrap" automobiles, yet were happy to buy Nikon cameras, Sony TVs, Panasonic stereos. I know a bunch of guys who love to talk about which of their tools are made in USA, but they all drive foreign cars, foreign-made clothes, etc. They talk about "quality" while they shovel processed food down their throats. Very few people are actually sincere about this concern, it's most just virtue-signalling.
>>65085715>I wouldn't own this gun even for freeIt's a good gun with a dumb paint job, why are you sperging out like a woman? I like surplus guns, which means I PAID for shittier, uglier guns. Do you even own guns?
>>65085774Good might be debatable. No purists were harmed in the making of this firearm. Meme caliber for a meme paint job
>>65085806>.40I was wondering why the slide had that weird contour on the left side above the slide stop.
>>65085806>>65085656I thought it was rusted or dirty or something, but no someone actually paid for that specific coloration. Absolutely disgusting
>>65085656What's amusing is that to highlight your tirade, you chose a Browning Hi Power/GP, a handgun that was never made in the U.S..Even the current Springfield offering, is a Girsan under the label.
>>65085656If the US government is unwilling to subsidize ammunition production/purchases for civilians, whether that process requires you to get some gay license or not, then I'm 110% in favor of dropping all ammo sanctions from foreign countries and letting cheap foreign made ammo into the country so I can at least shoot in an affordable manner. I still kick myself for not stacking more steelcase .223 during the Trump 1 years which was a golden age for cheap ammo. Now everything sucks dick on ammo prices and we get raped more and more as the days go by. I have no politics outside of seeing cheaper ammo prices and do not care what course takes us there
>>65085853Street shitter has never encountered a field of tall grass in their entire Mumbai existence. Brothers, pray for this subhuman
>>65085806>>65085857>made in belgium>assembled in portugallel.
>>65085908Im sure your cover in the grass wouldve been blown if your pistol was a different color than oreo diarrhea
>>65085959You’re just mad I copped a fawty hi-POWA for 20 bux
>>65085997I want a stainless .40 hi power
>>65085715Somebody's jealous.>>65085656Cause a lot of American gun manufacturers suck donkey dongs. It's why we have Zastava or Beretta opening factories in the USA. Even then, the finish quality on American Berettas is worse than Italian Berettas. American sig sucks. Foreign sig is good.
>>65085656>What are the implications100x more bitching on this board.
>>65085656>what are the implicationsi can't believe there are this many posts in a fucking /pol/ thread
>>65086127the /pol/ thread is the other one thoughbeit
>>65085656Fuck yamudda
>>65085656>It is incredibly concerning how many (American) people unironically wish that we could import guns from China into the US.We simply want all the guns on the planet. We hold 52% of the world's guns, and we wish to increase that number.
>>65085719Do you know how retarded it is to swap a battery on a 2013-2017 Ford Escape?
>>65085667You are a gay globalist nigger and will be molested by the fair trade monster
>>65086928Battery is something you should be changing before it fails anon
>>65086928No.
>>65085719>Something you don't need to fix!Name any car where this is the case. Hell name anything period.
>>65085656Arms protectionism makes a certain amount of sense from a strategic standpoint, as does protectionism for most critical industries. Domestic manufacturing of small arms and the materials needed to make them gives a country a strategic safeguard in times of war. The best way to not get outcompeted by foreign, possibly hostile states, is to have a certain amount of capability locked into the country via protectionism or nationalization. Beyond just maintaining the ability to produce our own weapons, there's not much point in blocking arms importation from allied nations. Hostile nations should not be given the money or usage data of their domestically produced guns by millions of private gun owners, so yeah we shouldn't allow importation of Chinese guns. But by the same token, we shouldn't accept Chinese nationals into our country either because they will likely be spies.
>>65087707What I'm saying is that I remember a time when anyone of means had at least 2 cars per household not because so much driving was happening (people drive a lot more now) but because there was a fairly high probability that one or the other would be in the shop at any given time because a critical engine part just failed spontaneously or the transmission was on the fritz. Most of my exposure to different cars early in life came from riding around in dealer loaners because cars were just chronically broken, all the time. It was normal back then to carry spare tires everywhere. Remember when being able to change a tire was seen as an essential life skill and a prerequisite for being considered competent to drive at all, rather than something you drop as a flex like it seems to have become today?Cars got so good that they're having to enshittify them by adding required electronic systems that brick the car after the cloud servers running the subscription cert renewal service get too old and unmaintainable. The old business of "sell them a new car every 5 years because the old one went through too many engines to be maintainable" stopped working. This was catastrophic to their expected future profits so they adopted something that works for the phone handset industry. Just make the old product dependent on something controlled by the people responsible for questions of profit and loss.tl;dr you really don't have to fix anything in today's cars, yes of course they still break but it's noteworthy when they do
>>65085857I thought it was tisas
>>65085656american industry as a whole has been dead for a long time. early 90s id say. since it's already dead and buried, why worry about competing with foreign companies?
>>65087757idk man, new shit breaks down mechanically all the time,. my cousin needed a water pump on her exploder, like a gazillion dollars because the retard engineers put the water pump inside the engine, you have to pull the intake and timing cover to get to it. mechanic quoted 10 hours of labor. anyways nu-cars have obnoxious electrical gremlins all the time that are suicide inducing to fix because you could unravel the wiring harness in your average 2012+ car and span the fukken globe. id much rather rebuild a carbd sbc every 150k miles
>>65085806https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cvA2smmMSDA
