Posted on 09/24/2005 11:30:04 AM PDT by kiriath_jearim
Turkey And USA To Cooperate In Rifle Manufacture
Published: 9/23/2005
ISTANBUL - Turkish weapon manufacture firm ``Sarsilmaz`` will cooperate with U.S. giant firm ``Colt Defense`` in rifle production.
Under an agreement to be signed soon, Colt Defense`s products will be manufactured outside North America for the first time, and be exported to other countries via Turkey.
Latif Aral Alis, the Chairman of Executive Board of Sarsilmaz firm, and James R. Battaglini, an executive of the Colt Defense LLC, will hold a press conference regarding this cooperation on Monday (September 26th).
This may interest you.
My 8mm Mauser was made in Ankara in 1943.
Has Colt Defense announced what all is going to be outsourced overseas under this agreement?
hrmn.
What! No mention of Colt's handgun factory in London the 1840'sand 50's
While I have no problem with the quality of Turkish arms (it's one of the last places where a hand-made shotgun can be produced economically), I don't want to buy a Colt in the USA and find out it came from Turkey. We have Americans here to make Colts, thank you.
Can we get discounts? Ammo compatibility and access?
It's a good time to exercises your Second Amendment Rights!
One man says to a second man: "Do you believe in the First Amendment freedom of speech?"
The second man says: "Of course I do."
The first man then asks: "Do you believe in the Second Amendment freedom to bear arms?"
The second man replies: "No, I don't."
The first man insists: "Then shut up!"
The moral of the story is: you can have your rights, but you have to protect and defend them, too.
I'm an avid hunter, shooter, and gun collector (no...scratch that...I'm more of a gun hoarder), and I spend a lot of time on gun-related internet boards. The Turkish shotguns now being imported into the US have a poor reputation for quality and reliability (although, to be fair, they aren't any worse than the American-made Remington 11-87).
So, what are they making? M-16s and M-4 carbines? That's all I think they make rifle wise, other than 9mm Colt submachine guns.
Funny, I could have sworn they made M-16s in the Phillipines under license in the 1970s.
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.....)
Brings new meaning to having a Turkey shoot.
According to the article, the arms made in Turkey will be for the Non-US market.
I could be wrong, but just posting info from my dealer, who I'm pretty sure was talking about a rifle, not a shotgun.
http://www.colt.com/mil/M4Com.asp
This is the weapon..But i gotto tell you, i searched alot but couldn't find any other source for this news..All sources are Turkish.
If Turkey is really going to manufacture these weapons i am %90 percent sure that it will be for the Turkish Armed Forces mostly, as far as i know TAF has "i use what i can manufacture" attitude.
Which is the difference between the TAF and the other MiddleEast countries, as (except Israel) those ME countries when left without spare parts, in 3-5 years lose their mechanical equipment..
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