This is Dick Durbin's own statement out of the Congressional Record, so if Dick Durbin is lying, I'd like to know. I'm checking your link, but once again - are these companies majority American-owned?
That requirement wasn't in the original statement.
Nor would the guys in Iraq give a ratsass where the armor came from once the bullits start flying.
If they can make it, make them make it, and if they don't want to, Nationalize them and do it at gunpoint.
It's NOT "steel fabrication," it's making a particular grade of steel with certain properties that is the problem.
"Steel fabrication" is what the Rock Island Armory is doing with the raw product.
Yes.