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Old 02-04-2010, 09:03 PM
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Originally Posted by CNCforLife View Post
Does anyone else think this Merwin Hulbert revival is a ruse? I have been watching their site (along with several others they have) and can't believe that folks are willing to believe what is posted and place a deposit. As mentioned on the site, the excuse provided concerning CATIA (CAD) did not pass the smell test. Anyone paying attention to our economy would quickly figure out that there is plenty of manufacturing capacity in the US (this will be countered that only .001% of shops are capable of producing our incredibly complicated and demanding parts). Montanian sounds like a politician and that should worry the most trusting souls...
Sorry, I didn't realize YOU decided if we were real, let alone incompetent lying politicians, based on browsing our website content which has admittedly lagged our actual progress and certainly understated what we're doing in firearms and ammunition manufacturing. We're known by senior management, generally the CEO, at every major gun and ammunition manufacturer, many of the mid-tier and supplier firms, ATF-licensed, members of the standard-setting and research organizations, many gun magazine editors and senior writers...and the poor naive rubes you pity for "falling for our ruse" are veteran law enforcement, engineers, designers, gun mag editors, dealers, collectors, and in general a very savvy bunch. We did think there were a lot of machine shops with excess capacity for doing some of this work, hence the blind alley with the CATIA shop with 9-axis machining centers, and helping them get ATF licensure to make gun parts takes months along with adapting their methods. We bought SolidWorks, brought in rapid prototyping engineers, hired a veteran world-class weapon systems engineer with 40 years experience, added a ballistics lab-heck we make the testing ammunition for most major gunmakers...it's a pretty dumb way to run a "ruse" but it's how you work your way through bringing back a complex (that's what all of the master machinists and gunmakers say when they examine a Merwin closely, apparently only you think these are fast and easy.) Smith & Wesson have been extremely supportive to this effort, maybe you can straighten them out too with your untapped expertise...but don't call them the same names, although Horace Smith, Sam Colt, B. Tyler Henry, John Browning, Bill Ruger, etc. wouldn't meet your high standards either.
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