unfortunately protectionism means obscene prices and useless service. I still like to buy local when I can but it is usually the various parallel importers that give me the best deals. Just as well for places like Brownells or we would still be faced with $5000 bottom end ARs.
These guys are ok also:
https://www.dsarms.com
they also do the less than $100 deal for exports and $100 for the ITAR shit paper if you need. Haven't shipped anything for a while so cant comment on shipping costs.
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