You know in reality there are still the kind of domestic gun companies that this discussion laments passing. I offer you Kimber, Dakota, CSMC, and a few others. Today they are considered boutique producers but back in their hey day the companies such as Winchester, Remington, etc were similar smaller volume shops than the mass marketers they are today. You might point to the cost of Kimber etc. but if you look back the Winchester model 70 wasn’t cheap in 1955 dollars. That’s the reason that most of our parents didn’t own a dozen or more rifles and shotguns chambered for specialized rounds. They were lucky to own a good rifle and a single shotgun that they used for everything. Now most of us tend to own 4-5 $500 rifles instead of one really nice $2000 rifle .
