ORIGINAL: sabotloader
Do I feel more confident with an American barrel - yes! It is really harder to say that about some American cars vs some foreign cars.
This is all that is required to tip you to buy American over a lower-priced import. Worked on me. Confidence. It's nothing physical. It is totally abstract. And it will always cost the consumer something to get. Confidence is a product in of itself. It is a feature hard working Americans are paying good money for.
But it is not by "proving" the safety of American made ML's that Randy and his supporters have added this feature. It is rather, by destroying the confidence people have in the competitors of American made ML's, that this value has been added.
Happy Hunting, Phil