Canada per capita is one of the world's biggest exporters and currently running best economy of the G8 and, like the U.S., has built its communities and institutions on exports of our products overseas. Now, the shoes are on other feet.

I buy Canadian and American products on the main street of our closest town and haven't set foot in those big-box juggernauts on the highway. Sometimes I have no other choice but foreign goods at half our prices.

Jimmy asked about ourselves, not the general public's view. From what I've read here the last five years, most of us are doing well and have discretionary income for the shooting sports. Others are obliged to buy at lowest price, bless them.

To come right down to it, I think all this talk about RBLs and other exotica is extravagance when there are so many good old American and European guns of equal or better quality at a fraction of their prices under our noses.

No, Jimmy, buy American. I do, and I feel better doing it.