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I guess they didn't practice enough diversity.
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Then, again, perhaps too much "diversity" MaR !
"Back when" Gibson was located in Kalamazoo MI. During WW2 the firm did a lot of speciality metal work. It carried that expertise over into the post-war years. Its strings were used by everyone. It also carried over a lot of union baggage from that era that was killing is bottom line around the late Seventies. The owners brought in a new CEO and he moved the firm to Nashville, TN - a "right to work state" - and it became not only profitable, but popular featured on such iconic shows as NASCAR. Further, unlike its competitors - Martin is one coming to mind - Gibsons are wholly, totally and proudly proclaimed as "American Made".
Perhaps what we have here is a Demoncratic bureaucracy going after a very successful "anti-union" (and I don't know if they're organzied or not) firm by misusing/abusing some vague and conflicting importation regs (that may only be applicable in the country of the complaint object origin) and paperwork.
IAC, I kinda like Iowa Hawk's take on it and his morph into a paraody of OFF ! >Mech
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Then, again, perhaps too much "diversity" MaR !
"Back when" Gibson was located in Kalamazoo MI. During WW2 the firm did a lot of speciality metal work. It carried that expertise over into the post-war years. Its strings were used by everyone. It also carried over a lot of union baggage from that era that was killing is bottom line around the late Seventies. The owners brought in a new CEO and he moved the firm to Nashville, TN - a "right to work state" - and it became not only profitable, but popular featured on such iconic shows as NASCAR. Further, unlike its competitors - Martin is one coming to mind - Gibsons are wholly, totally and proudly proclaimed as "American Made".
Perhaps what we have here is a Demoncratic bureaucracy going after a very successful "anti-union" (and I don't know if they're organzied or not) firm by misusing/abusing some vague and conflicting importation regs (that may only be applicable in the country of the complaint object origin) and paperwork.
IAC, I kinda like Iowa Hawk's take on it and his morph into a paraody of OFF ! >Mech I wonder how far afield in your fertile (as in composted) imaginations you two would go if someone didn't snap their fingers and say, "Wake up!!" You might try Googling the issue and learn the teensy basics before indulging in such drunken idiotological speculation. Or you could listen to that evil leftist... New Leftist?... Progressive?... Classical Liberal?... (of hell, I don't know which box the Isster puts it in) National Public Radio. It's about rosewood and the Lacey Act. BTW, Iowa Hawk's parody was of your little obsession, Operation Fast and Furious. 
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Gibsons are wholly, totally and proudly proclaimed as "American Made". I have no reason to doubt the veracity of your statement Mech but I wonder why some Libyan rebels had the following to say in a recent article I read. You might also find the article of interest. Although --I assume--the guitars they are referring to to are Chinese pirated knockoffs. At first, their unit moved around the city, so bringing guitars to the battlefield was not possible. Shaka left his acoustic model in his car, and his electric guitar—“a Gibson, but a Chinese Gibson”—at home. Both were stolen when Qaddafi’s troops raided his house. They also kidnapped his father, who had not been seen since.
Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.
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