Buckmaster's got a good point. American gun manufactorers are getting a bit old fashoined or just plain lazy. Why should they upgrade their factory to modern standards when you can just outsource it to Japan and Russia.
Outsourceing is cheap and doesn't at first involve any risk. You can avoid all sorts of legal issues, labor unions, and high American wages by letting someone else do you production for you and then slap an American label on it and hope nobody notices. I notice, I won't buy any gun that doesn't say "Made in USA". My one exception is a 60 year old Spanish SXS that my father inherited from his father 35 years ago.

The problem with outsourceing is that the company looses the ability to make their own product. Shutting down a production line can be a pernament loss if the expertise that worked there moves on with their lives and gets into to other careers. Seriously, can you restart a factory after it being closed for 20 years and truelly expect it to function like it used to? It's not just the loss of the guys on the production line that gets lost it's also the guys who direct the production line. Good managment is tough to find and good managment with expertise in the field you specialize are very rare. It could take a guy 30+ years before he gets any good at factory management where he can have his product compete internationaly. Close that factory and you loose that guy.

The problem with outsourceing is also problems happen that are out of your control. Now that most of our clothes are made in China, what's going to happen if we ever go to war with China, go naked??? A strike in Russia, political instability in Asia or heck anything else could shut down a good American company because they outsourced too much.