I like my Blue Sky M1Carbine. They must have had the "lighter hammer" when they applied the import mark on my Marlin barrel. There are all U.S. parts on my 'mixmaster' Postal Meter. The "SA" Birch M-2 stock pleases me. I have a reliable and accurate shooting carbine that I picked up last year for $325 (including a real G.I. WW2 mag pouch). That import stamp saved me hundreds of dollars and kind of tracks its service from U.S. rebuild to Korean Army use. Blue Sky can be good.