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Yesterday I was in Wally World and there was a stack of Red Ryder BB guns. I think they were like $29 . Had one as a kid and bought another later in life just because I wanted to. I picked up one on the stack and was interested to see where it was made. It was made in China. No surprise. Is the Daisy plant in Arkansas’s closed up? There was a day when you could send a gun in for repair!

What did you think of those self checkout terminals?

Those are the debbil

I got W2s for about 8 places now

Thank god some places are going to do away with self checkout.

I used to pheasant hunt with Sam Walton, we’d go get $6 haircut too. Play checkers, sip Coors

Was he that guy in that old timey show, had a kid named John Boy

Yes, thatMs how got rich at first. Being a tv star

Lots of business owners in the hunting/outdoor community are just human filth for having anything made in Chinkerland.

Everyone knows that

dummmass

My underbrush brand leafy suit made in usa, came from wal marts

Last time I was in a Walmarks was on the way to Houston TX

Stopped in Kentucky somewhere

Got a new windshield wiper and wrecked the schitter

u put yor i out wrond iy...

Yup pretty disgraceful, I went to buy a pretty cool Ka-Bar pocket knife and I look on the box and it’s made in China, no thanks!

Cheaper is always better regardless of how exotic the origin has to be to get there.

I think there’s light at the end of the tunnel. Was e-shopping leaf blowers yesterday and one of the candidates was made in Canuckia and the other Meh-hee-co.

Getting closer….

Heard the Chinese were selling some of their U.S. land holdings because they need the money. Their economy is collapsing. No source yet.

Build back better.

Don't know about their plant in Arkansas and if Daisy doesn't work on them, there's a place in Ohio that fixes & rebuilds vintage & newer air guns, and that includes Daisy BB guns according to their web site, www.Bakerairguns.com. He did an old mid 60's Crosman CO2 pellet gun that I sent him a few years ago and they have a lot of vintage restored air guns for sale. So if anyone wants to get that old Red Ryder fixed up........

Not surprised

Trump was on the right path to bring factories back home. Tariffs. Tariffs on not only China, but all goods coming into the US except maybe China and maybe Mexico (too keep illegals there working instead of crossing the border). Then put tariffs on Mexican made goods if they don't stop the drugs and help stop the illegals.

Different sort of "Red" in Red Rider these days.
Most Red Riders come outta universities after being programmed as pawns for the left.

Our local John Deere plant is putting up some new buildings and doing some land scaping. Something is going on. It's the big buildings that have me wondering what are they going to be doing in there.

kwg

At the end of the day, we get higher prices through tariffs or because cost of production is higher in the US. If you can't fix cost of production here, you are just raising prices.

Nothing is collapsing anywhere... it all just transferring to the Global Elite.

Geopolitical hate for Russia, China, America is a manipulated game by the 0.1% puppet-masters.

In another 10 years... the average American will be as poor as a Chinaman...

Or to put it another way... In another 10 years the average Chinaman... will be as wealthy as the average brokedick American.

It is what people WANT!

business owners are doing what they should be doing....giving people a choice.....its up to you and I to make the right choice....bob

I agree. Not everybody can drop $400 for a Mystery Ranch pack, but they can afford a Chi-com knock-off for $200. Should they give up the sport because they can't afford American-made gear? Good money says the device we are posting on contains Chinese parts if it wasn't out-right Chinese produced.

Das why I buys my balls from Hornady!

Das why I buys my balls from Hornady!

Sad to hear but I see more stuff made in USA ( some with global parts) than I did in years , and I see less that is made from China. One poster said it is sickening to see our stuf made in China . Scopes seem to be that way and we have a guy names Bigstick that promotes the heck out of the China brand... No sense of patriotism at all . No surprise there, he voted for Obama.

Can you recommend a 100% American made scope please?

Who even makes a US scope?

Even Leupold is "designed, machined, and assembled" in the US, not "Made in the USA". They source a lot of Chinese components. Most Trijicon stuff is Japanese made.

Is not... the very definition of the words "Whiny Bitch"...

A person that complains excessively, without offering any sort of remedy?

Manufacturing is a complicated proposition here. It has slowly been choked to death by excessive government intervention and inflation. Inflation is a way for Roberto increase tax revenues. Fees, regulations and licensing put undue restrictions on manufacturers. All this raises prices to where it’s no longer viable to keep production in country. China has cheap labor and fewer government involvement in industry. They also own a lot of shipping and we give them pretty much free import duty.
Trump’s policies helped but you can’t move the mountain in four years without help from Congress. Government agencies have to be accountable. Congress made them specifically so They wouldn’t be held accountable. Our government has devolved into a giant Ponzi scheme and we’re supporting it.

Don’t know much about prior to WW2 but since the war ended in the late 1940’s our government has prioritized supporting industry, production and development in foreign countries while regulating and destroying production and industry in this country. Remember when “made in Japan” was synonymous with cheap crap. Now the Japanese make some high quality products. Same thing is happening all over the world and our government not only encourages it, but they support it financially with money we don’t have.

Excessive and unnecessary government regulation has resulted in most of the products we use being produced in third world countries. Red Ryder BB guns are no different.

Don't use them

I pick up at the curb

Not the Frankenstud Sling Keeper

It's never going to be sourced out of my own shop

I'll quit selling them before that

Probably housing illegal aliens.

My Daisy 25 I got in 1961 is now made in China too.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daisy_Model_25

scumload: You are just a useful idiot - let me correct that YOU have no logical "usefulness" - you are just an idiot with NOTHING of value to add here!
EVER!
Sad that.
Hold into the wind
VarmintGuy

I got one of those a 3 or 4 years after I got my Red Ryder at age 5 in 1965 for Christmas.

The model 25 seemed to be a little more powerful.
Mine had the Nylon or plastic stocks. Good times! 🤠

I wish he would have taken it further. If we can't own land or businesses in your country, you can't own them in ours. If your citizens can't own guns, scopes and gun parts, you can't sell them to us.

You were strangely silent when I posted pics of my awesome deer blind and any of the kills past or present, pics I post up.

Considering you NEVER post pics of anything you’ve accomplished, built, killed, dragged home, etc. NOTHING. JUST TALK…hot gas.

You couldn’t build a bird house. Congrats you 4-F flat foot fugk

I hope the feds visit your doorstep you mouthy lying ass bottomfeeder. And I dont wish that on anyone.

At age 10 I had the BB gun that did not seem to kill anything.
At age 12 I had a Crossman 22 cal pellet gun... and I was eating robin meat.

Oh wow LOL

Varmint gay is fired up

I think Trump and a few others have the ability and courage to bring back some of what we have lost in the manufacturing . Tax incentives both state, and federal. I think creative employment hiring, such as but not limited to, people who have student loans could go to work in certain sectors where they could pay off their loan and could actually learn something of real value.? Prisoners could be making more things other than license plates ( if they still do). Lots of retired folks would like a part time job.

Make a list of our country's enemies. Is Japan on the list?

It's very disengenuous to say just because a particular type of product isn't 100% made in the U.S. that it's OK to go full traitor mode and buy from a country that is in direct opposition to ours.

During WW2 would your grandparents have bought products from Nazi Germany or Imperial Japan? What about during the Cold War, were you buying Soviet and Eastern Bloc products so you could save a few bucks?

Just because some classes of parts or products are only available from one country due to Corporate America's treasonous behavior doesn't justify saying I can't make better choices when I have options.

Don't try to normalize or rationalize treason.

NO I cant , cause there are no scopes 100% made in America and that was not what the thread is about. . I will go with fiber optic sights made in America before I go with a scope made in China. All my scopes were bought many years ago and are failing to some degree though.

I'm still waiting to be invited to the Walmart staff Christmas party, since I sort of work there now.

Hey dickweed - what do you call this? Huh?

Slumlord commenting on the same dude's buck

Maybe if you weren't such an a-hole, he'd teach you how to post pix of the cool animals you've killed, so he can post positive remarks.







But maybe not.







Hold into the dick

Depends on the grandparents.


https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_collaboration_with_Nazi_Germany#:~:text=Major%20American%20companies%20with%20investments,%2C%20Westinghouse%2C%20and%20United%20Fruit.

Seems you're putting words in my mouth. LEUPOLD is using Chinese stuff. Are they guilty of TREASON? You literally posted your comment on a device made in China or full of Chinese parts.

I don't understand why people refuse to try to get the big picture. Avoiding anything made in China is impossible. Avoiding scopes that say "Made in China" on them is easy. There a plenty of cost and performance competitive scopes that do not say "Made in China" on them.

Is that fugking complicated?

Seems like half the stuff I need to buy here is found only at Walmart or Amazon. The only big department store left here is Target and I avoid that place like the plague. Sears, Penney's, Shopko, all gone.

Red Ryder = Red China

So it's OK to be a hypocrite if you keep it on the down low????