Quote Originally Posted by derekm View Post
I understand alright. The stock and a bit of steel are more expensive to buy to make a British gun, but so are the foreign manufactured complete guns, lock, stock and barrel plus their manufacturer's costs and markup.
I get what you're saying but it's not that simple because the % profit taken by the factory will be a slightly higher figure as will the % profit by everyone along the chain.

so if it did cost £200 to produce + 10% profit = £20, out the door at £220, the wholesaler takes his 10% (£22) & sells for £242 etc, etc

if the £ is worth less, so it now costs £250 to produce, that 10% profit is now £25 so out the door becomes £275, the wholesalers 10% now becomes £27.50 so he sells at £302.50, etc, etc.

If the foreign gun is made in a country with a better exchange rate their increase might only go up to £220 to produce, so out the door with 10% profit at £242, wholesale £266.20, etc etc

does that make sense to you.