Buying Your Pseudo-Military Stuff from China
It seems like the involvement of American purchasers (both corporate and individual retail) in funding Chinese companies to develop better and better red dot sights, electronic devices, and so on will have only resulted in both capital and knowledge moving to an enemy of our way of life.
Every person who buys a knockoff micro RDS (even from the “big names”) or scope, or even an iPhone, may end up being complicit in funding the design and purchase of weapons that will be used to fairly decent effect against US soldiers at some point in the future. Or do you think that those same companies wouldn’t be nationalized to produce those “as good as an Aimpoint” items the second we got involved in a conflict?
It’s something that needs to be said. I’m all about free trade. I’m not a fan of DJT’s approach to economics. I’m all about distributing labor to lift the entire world out of poverty. But there’s a limit.
I think we’re going to reap the wildwind on this. And I think it’s only honest to acknowledge our involvement, without the usual “well, everyone else is doing it, my purchase didn’t matter.”
I don’t care about Harleys or Cadillacs, the Chinese can have those.
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Buying Your Pseudo-Military Stuff from China
Though I don’t completely disagree with your sentiment. Slick Willy sold China our strategic defense secrets during his term. In the grand scheme of things, small arms accessories are a small drop in the bucket.
Also if the Chinese really want something, they’ll just fire up the corporate espionage servers. Ain’t no thing.
Buying Your Pseudo-Military Stuff from China
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Adrenaline_6
Your question should be why isn't there a US company that makes a competing product?
100% this.
That said. Government needs to unfvck the cost of manufacturing in the US if anything is to ever change.
Also, trijicon and Aimpoint had one job going into SHOT and they blew it miserably so I for one have no qualms about picking up a holosun 509T when they’re released. That’s how markets work.
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