Whatever one might think or feel about the Turks, either historically or at present, I must say from experience that Turkish guns aren't "crappy", they've made decent trust-worthy firearms since ww1 at least. Ask anyone who's fought them, or been allied to them for that matter. Their weapons are all over in that part of the world and they are getting better, making improvements in manufacturing, quality, and trained work-force. Hurts me (kinda) to say so, but the most recent Tisas .45 I checked out was the quality of any modern Colt 1911.. while price increases are unavoidable due to the failing US Dollar, they've been doing a good job holding the line on prices.
I'm not so whippy on their ammo, but they are up to NATO standards, sooo... Speaking of NATO, the Turks HAVE been our ally and holding the s.e. tier of Europa and access to/from the Black Sea for many years now- probably since the '20's, or '30's of the last century, at least. America has never been to war with Turkey, not even ww1. All too often their reward has been being treated like a red-headed step-child...
