Anyone buying a gun made in Turkey, or some other God-forsaken place, beware - even if it has an American name on it.
I was at my local gun dealer not long ago, and the manager told me that he had recently called Remington to tell them that he received two rifles from them (of foreign manufacture - probably Turkey or Russia, I forgot which he said it was) that were not test fired. The guy at Remington told him that was impossible, because they test fire ALL of their rifles. The manager said there was NO WAY that these two rifles were test fired. The reason?
The chambers were not machined fully!
Now THAT's real QUALITY CONTROL, huh?
Remington has gone down hill since they started selling in volume to such big stores as Wal-Mart, and now, THIS! I'm also O.K. with German, Italian, British, Japanese, and other CIVILIZED, INDUSTRIALIZED countries firearms, but TURKEY? Not me.
Part of this has to do with the fact that I've been there before (while on a Med cruise with the 22nd MEU) and was NOT impressed whatsoever , and, one of my good friends was murdered by a Turkish national that he had befriended.
Too bad the cops didn't kill the bastard, but at least he is serving, I believe, 20 years for the murder of my friend, 20 for the attempted murder of my friend's wife, and 20 for the attempted murder of one of the cops that he got into a shootout with.
Hopefully, some other con will do a "Jeffrey Dahmer" on him and send him to allah early by way of a claw hammer up side his gourd.
Remington isn't, as far as I can tell, importing any rifles. It is, however, importing the "Spartan" shotgun from Russia. Maybe that's what he was talking about. (I'd post a link, but Remington's server appears to be dysfunctional at the moment.....)