My uneducated guess is that it's an honest rifle. Only a small percentage of the JJ Co. imports were assembled from parts after arrival in Brooklyn. A shop in Montgomery, Alabama, bought a thousand of them and I was into them heavily at the AGCA shows in Birmingham when I first got licensed in 1990. I never saw and of the rifles assembled here in the USAicon from original parts until several years later. There were some very nice rifles, early and late production. The good old days for a youngster like me!