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The assassination attempt occurred in Luxembourg. Herr Glock is a resident of Austria. It is illegal and practically impossible to travel internationally with a handgun.

- Jim

Gee, Mr.72, I thought you didn't take the politics or ideology of manufacturers into account.

If we don't buy from Ruger because of statements made decades ago by their deceased former owner, and don't buy from Smith and Wesson because of their former management's acceptance of trigger locks, and don't buy from Kahr because they are linked to the moonies, we're going to run out of politically acceptable vendors pretty soon.

You can still get nice Single Action Army replicas made in Italy.

Glock reportedly has better than 50% profit margin (which is huge for a hardware manufacturer). They can comfortably adjust their prices to be competitive with other vendors. Part of the reason that they dominate the police market is that they can undercut everyone else.

- Jim

TDDude wrote:Also, it is my non-provable belief that ALL white collar federal prosecutions are politically motivated to some degree.

It's not provable.

Look at the number of campaign contributors like Enron executives and Madoff that were prosecuted during the George W. Bush administration, or Republican politicians who were prosecuted either by the U.S.D.O.J. or U.S. district attorneys appointed by the President.

Probably every administration has had some lower-level appointees prosecuted by people working for the same president that appointed them.

The majority of federal prosecutions are against drug dealers, embezzlers, mobsters, counterfeiters, and the like with no political aspect.

Sure, sometimes they are politically motivated.

- Jim

Just keep in mind that at this point, most of this information is allegations or rumors.
the FBI has been wrong, or at least failed to prove its case.

The IRS usually gets their pound of flesh, though.

- Jim

This lengthy story states that Glock (the company) is under investigation by U.S. officials for possible tax irregularities and other legal issues:

http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/co ... op+stories" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

I have no opinion one way or the other. Tax and import-export law are so complicated that probably any company could be prosecuted if the investigation went deep enough.

- Jim