Made over seas labor is next to nothing... Of course citizens there do not have our style of government There fishing without a license is a wrist/hand slapping offense and to enter their country illegally is prison time, here in the good ole USA it is totally backwards on top of slapping the hand for entering ILLEGALLY we give you free stuff like housing,insurance, welfare checks that the rest of our citizens PAY FOR and cannot get.
Your explanation makes no sense. I just bought a Taurus Spectrum from Rural King for $119.99 and it is made in the USA. Heritage Rough Riders sell in the range of $120-$130 when they are NOT on sale and they are made in the USA. Heck, even Ruger sells a USA made SAA revolver (Wrangler) for under $200.
My late uncle used to be a business consultant, and we were going over a cousin's invention and what it cost. My uncle said mfg'ers cost of MSRP was typically 35%. Not sure if that included labor or not. Years ago when I was a Domino's mgr, we had to do cost sheets every night. Food costs couldn't be more than 29% as I recall (did not include labor). But that was the food biz, which can be labor intensive. It's hard to say what a G2C costs Taurus, but it can't be much more than 40%. Of course, that is a SWAG (scientific wild a$$ guess).
Look at it this way... Many polymer and even all metal handguns from Glock, Sig, HK, S&W, Walther, CZ, etc cost around the same price if not more than many of the rifles that are on the market. Sometimes for around the same price or more than their own line of rifles/shot guns that they sell. Rifles that require more manufacturing time and cost, use more metal and polymer, and have barrels that are thicker and 4 times or more as long. Not only that, the U.S. taxes rifles at a higher rate than handguns... The OP's should be wondering why are other manufacturers' handgund are so expensive, and how much profit are they making. If Glock, for example, are able to practical give their pistols aeay to L.E. and the military and still make a profit, I'd say they're making a killing selling to us civilians...
Glocks cost about $80 to make. Polymer pistols are cheap. I'd expect Taurus to cost about the same.
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