Just a Side Word on Brazil, and it's Products / Industry /, and Development. For any of us who may Not be so Familiar.

(This is No Comment, Pro or Con, on the Brazilian Made Gun you Mention. I Know Not on That.)

One may Think Brazil as a Rather Undeveloped, Third World, Banana Republic, "Cheap or Crappy Products" Country. Regarding the First Three of these anyway, -Much of Brazil is Such.

But Much of Brazil is also Not! Much of it is Quite a Longstandingly Developed, Industrious, Country! Brazil is Such a Mixed Picture and Bag. Many Outsiders may Not so Readily Know that!

This Largely Hinges on What Part of Brazil you are In! Of What Part of Brazil One is Talking About!

The Southeast and Far South, are this Country's Industrial and Manufacturing Center, as Well as Most of it's Agricultural Breadbasket. Much Mining and Minerals there as well. A Quite Sizeable Middle Class exists there.

By Contrast, -It's also Populous Northeastern Coastal Bulge, is Predominantly a Poor, Hard Scrabble, Agrarian, Un/Underdeveloped, Third World, Banana Republic Area.

It's been the Historic Seat of Brazil's Yesterday. But it's South, Amazon, and Other Interior Areas, -are Brazil's Today!

Many may Think Brazil Only to be Amazonian Jungled Rainforest, -"What Industry or Development can they Have?!". But that is Only Half or so of Brazil!

Broadly Speaking, -There are at Least Two Brazils! Very Contrastive, Different Brazils! It again Comes Down to Which of these Two Major Brazils, that One is Referring to!

Brazil is perhaps Within the World's 10 Greatest Industrial and Manufacturing Economies! That is Nothing to just Sneeze About!

So a Brazilian Made Firearm or Other Product, -Does Not Neccessarily Equate into "Hong Kong Trinkets"!

However, Beyond This, -I am in No Knowledge or Position, -to Comment any Furthur on your Brazilian Made Firearms, of which you Speak. So I am Not Making any such Further Comment.

I just Wanted to Apprise a More Accurate Picture, -of Brazilian Products, Industry, and Development and So Forth. Towards Any such Area, that Any of us may Not so Readily Know of.

The Gun May or May Not Approach or Be Up to American Snuff. But it Does Come from Quite a Long Industrialized and Developed Country and Economy! And Not a Third World Amazonian Outpost!

I'm Not Saying that you Suppossedly Thought, Said, or Implied the Latter. Just So thats Known! And that may Already be Understood and Known in Any Event! I Do Want to Get Ahead of any *Possible* Mis-Appearance here, though!

Once Again, -It's a Matter of Which Brazil that One is Talking About! Brazil as a Whole is and Has Long Been, -Quite a Mixed Bag! It's Something of a Backwater on the World Scene, -But Also Quite a Potential Powerhouse!

The Latter Potentiality is Going to Come Down to, -When, How, and If, -Brazil May Find That in Itself!

Brazil and it's Culture / Affairs, -is a Continental Sized Country to Keep an Eye Towards and Watch! [color:"black"] [/color] [email]bountyhunter[/email]