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They make a damned fine product, here in the U.S., using the best materials they can obtain, and they pay their few employees as decently as they can while still making a rather modest living themselves.
4ager, I understand where you're coming from, but someone's standard of living really shouldn't enter the conversation and is irrelevant anyway. It doesn't matter if the principals own 10 mansions, four yachts, and a Lear jet, what they're doing is not immoral and it's not profiteering.
Melvin Forbes makes $3,000 rifles, does that mean he's an immoral profiteer? Hardly. It just means that like the tent makers, he's identified a high-end niche market of discerning customers willing to pay a premium for gear they believe is worth it. No one needs a $3,000 rifle or an $800 tipi; there are plenty of cheaper alternatives so these are luxury items that people with disposable income choose to buy. The fact that people are willing to pay the premium allows these items to be manufactured in the US at a living wage, and that's a win/win; there is nothing nefarious about it.
And making a profit is not immoral. It's what tbis country was built on.
