AR Sponsor
Posted: 10/1/2010 11:38:54 AM EDT
|
surefire sent me a email showing 3 new models of handheld lights
A new version of the G2 & 6P 200L pretty cheap |
|
Quoted:
surefire sent me a email showing 3 new models of handheld lights A new version of the G2 & 6P 200L pretty cheap They're cheap because they are not made in the USA. I saw a new 120 lumen G2 at a local gun shop and the packaging said, "assembled from foreign and domestic components". |
|
Quoted: Quoted: surefire sent me a email showing 3 new models of handheld lights A new version of the G2 & 6P 200L pretty cheap They're cheap because they are not made in the USA. I saw a new 120 lumen G2 at a local gun shop and the packaging said, "assembled from foreign and domestic components". That statement does not mean it was not assembled in the US........... |
|
Like other SureFires, the four new G2X and 6PX (each offered as either Tactical or Pro variants) models are effectively made in the USA but because the LED, a/the critical functional component, is often imported because there is no suitable USA manufactured alternative source, they can't be called "Made in the USA". Even though like all SureFires the manufacturing and assembly is done by SureFire in the USA, they have to use qualifiers to account for the imported LED.
They are considered American made according to the 'Buy American Act' required for supplying the US Military. |
|
Surefire is claiming that the new designs are in fact being made at their Fountain Valley facility.
The LED emitter in the 6PX and G2X is a Cree (either an XP-E or an XP-G), which is based in North Carolina. So they could be very much American made lights. Definitely more so than when they were buying Seoul LED's out of Korea. 
Credit for the photo goes to Rookiedaddy of CPF. |
|
Even LED manufacturers in the USA have often critical components or sub-assembles from the likes of S. Korea and therefore aren't technically "Made in the USA".
The point is that SureFire turns its own metal components at its World-leading US CNC machining facility, sources its proprietary Nitrolon polymer components from its long established US supplier, and manufactures, assembles, packs and ships from it's SoCal facilities. |
You just like to argue don't you? 
Even the Seoul LED's made in Korea had Cree dies in them. The Crees are *mostly* U.S. made now. They were 100% a couple of years ago. I'm just glad Surefire is finally putting some *cutting edge* LED's into their lights. I will still never buy a nitrolon light. It's a joke to use a plastic body on a high power LED light. The 6PX's look impressive, and I'll probably buy one. |
AR Sponsor