Good point. You might be on to something there but, isn't that why supervisors are supposed to supervise?

The very fact that these stamps were supposed to placed on the rifle before import to the US would mean that the individual was either hired in the US and sent to where ever the rifles were (hence, foreign travel involved) or, they hired them local to the rifles. Either of which would negate whether or not Americans travel very much. That and the information and figures that you state are from 40 to 50 years after the rifles in question were imported to the US.

I think that it simply boils down to a bit of ignorance on the part of the one with the hammer and the stamp. Or, and this thought just occured to me, maybe that was the only stamp they had since all of the rifles were supposed to have originated in Englandicon.

As a side note, whenever the US Army stationed me in Europe and Asia they picked up the bill so, cost was never an issue for me.

Al