Believe me Jeff, that if we could make these here at an affordable price we would not support another country's economy. However, look at the big picture:
1) We have over 350 employees (Americans) whose jobs were created because of the stuff we import and resell.
2) Countless UPS drivers, truck drivers, postmen, longshoremen etc... are involved in handling our products on a daily basis. We ship tens of thousands of pounds of freight per day. Indirect partial employment by us.
3) We have 1.2 million square feet of warehouse space all of which we built using American architects and American contractors and numerous US made components.
4) With the equipment we sell, there are tens of thousands of self employed Americans that were able to buy affordable equipment and put themselves into business feeding their families and stimulating the economy with the ripple effect that flows when people spend money. Very often we have found that when a person gets laid off, they will buy three or four thousand dollars worth of machines and start making cabinets, doing small machine shop type projects etc. to make some money. Quite often I have seen these small one man shops turn into major businesses. And then we sell more equipment to them!
People pile on China, but the majority of our machines still come from Taiwan. However, the price difference just between China prices and Taiwan prices is sometimes a deterrent in affordability. Imagine what US made prices would do to the equation. We do have a few very nice lathes made in Taiwan that could be used in gunsmithing (in stock). Mr Coleman, whose post appears above, has one such lathe, but they are more money and if you have the money, they are very, very nice. Bob Pastor has our new 16 x 40 lathe and is thrilled beyond his expectations.
