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Originally Posted by CamoDeafie

actually.... since our aluminum industry doesnt do much business here, most of the extruding and such are done overseas, (manufacturing processes and materials analysis classes i took in college specifically on research of where materials and processes happens) so it is simply this, extruded material imported into the US qualifies for the made-in-usa since most of the milling, boring, reaming, stamping, finishing happens at the shop that the material arrives. the same can be said for forged items such as barrel blanks, handle blanks, and so on. one particularly amusing tag on my ancient JT straps that i have, says "designed in america, assembled in mexico" and on one box for the spyder semi automatic paint marking pistol, cal .68, says "designed in US, made in Taiwan" so...really. since the forging and extruding industry in the US is not able to get the quality for the price of the materials, most businesses choose to import the material overseas. now...it has been said that american steel is stronger, but thats not true lately...more and more, we're using mexican iron since its usually have higher nickel content, and its cheaper than the home-grown US stuff. I'm not sure of Aluminum, altho i know the mineral is mostly from Australia, one of the largest mineral deposit for the stuff that becomes Aluminum alloy, and one interesting thing is, that aluminum is 100% recyclable, whereas steel/iron isnt.

So who has an Ego and can tell us what the box says?