The executive's job is to make profit? Probably so, in today's world. The entire business world has been ruined by the computer industry and other high-flying firms who post 20%+ returns. People look at them and think EVERY industry must be growing at a brisk rate or it is a failure of some sort.

In truth, it is the executive's job to make a profit, but not at all costs. Making a 35% return today is great, but not when you sell the future of your company and country. I'd rather see S&W make 15% on an American made gun than 25% on a Turkey gun. Why? It's healthier for them in the long run and better for our country in the short, and long, run. Any jamoke can source a gun made offshore. An exec with guts would do it here.

Of course, who is going to make that happen? Not the government, that's for sure.

A S&W shotgun made in the US would really raise some eyebrows....a S&W shotgun made in Turkey is just another imported gun. Period. It's been that way for 100 years now.

S&W is hardly to blame for the sad state of US manufacturing, but they sure ain't helping it, either. They're just another pig at the trough.