</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana,Tahoma,Arial,Helvetica,Geneva">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana,Tahoma,Arial,Helvetica,Geneva">Originally posted by Sieger:
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No one said that it would be easy to import or assemble and license these here, but if anyone can do it, rest assured someone in our membership can.
</strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana,Tahoma,Arial,Helvetica,Geneva">Okay, I'll bite. The requirements and desiderata for importing newly assembled guns are different from those for assembliing imported parts stateside. Arranging for a small shipment of antique handguns from Germany or Switzerland is a cinch, provided that they do not originate elsewhere, unlike Luger carbines of Romanian manufacture. All you need to break even is set your retail price at or above four times your wholesale cost FOB the port of entry. Setting yourself up as a manufacturer is a very different proposition, bringing to mind the reasons for these carbines to be assembled in Romania, by skilled workers earning $10 a day, rather than in Germany, by skilled workers earning $500 a day. You can cut your labor costs in half by setting up shop in certain parts of Texas or New Mexico. You can cut them fourfold by not looking too closely at your employees' immigration status. But you are not going to cut them to the level of Eastern Europe, whose output impresses you with its value for the money. And bear in mind that Sam Cummings never broke even with his Mauser Parabellum replicas.
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