Perm, I HEAR you...but then again, did we Crufflers (OK, in my case, an EX-cruffler) REALLY get into it to be "collectors" or shooters of foreign exotic guns we would never have owned CHEAPLY?
Yeah, I too have been upset where the import stamp was on on many FINE guns, and is why many of the few I have left were ones stamped DISCREETLY under the barrel and not over the CHAMBER..if they TRULY were "Collector's Items" WOULD we have bought them in the first place considering the price?
I am NOT a "Collector," but a "Shooter." for example I have owned at LEAST 150 various Mosin Nagants in various condition but am now down to only one M38, four M44s, and 4 91/30s... EACH one tells a story, including the $9.95 Century Ufixem special I call my rehab rifle, that I rebuilt from parts when I was recovering from my heart attack and shoots pretty well besides...
Outside of a few REALLY rough transition pre-1930 91/30s, every ONE I still have left is because they SHOOT pretty well...
So in the ling run, give it to me cheap, have it shoot well, and I don't give a rat's behind where they put the stamp....
If it was truly COLLECTIBLE, yeah, I could be sitting on a gold mine, BUT I probably wouldn't have bought it in the first place.....
And I don't know if you've noticed, but no matter WHAT guns I bought with my CRFFL, I never sold ONE without making a tidy profit...
...and I wish I would have bought a helluva lot MORE of the 3/$99 "Dropped in the Rubble no more than Twice" condition 91/30s when I had the chance....