OK. Safety is always first with any firearm. One of the things that is persuading me to stay with American made is where the money goes after the purchase. I am in the auto industry and have never preached buy domestic but, people need to realize where there money goes after a purchase of any item. Our economy is strong enough for the rest of the world to feed off of. When we lose jobs from importing, how long will it take before everything is imported and there is nobody working here to afford these items? Anyways,I am leaning towards an encore, the quality is there, tested and true. By the waymost domestic vehicles are very comparible to imported ones. Thanks for that link sabotloader, lots of good on the spanish made.