Glow Rhino Reactor - Made in the USA or Not?

They probably consider they built in the USA because I doubt they can import them with the tritium installed, and the bulk of the value of their product is the fact it has trits. You’re not buying a knife with tritium illumination, you’re buying a tritium illuminator with a mediocre knife attached to it.
 
Why not give SMK a call, and ask them?
After all: it's in their ad for the knife...
 
But how is "Country of Origin" defined?
Where it was sold?
Where it was built?
Where the parts were from?
 
Rupestris said:
Seems they are part of Night Fision out of Dearborn, MI. A firearm accessory company that deals in tritium sights and does other tritium accessories, bits and bobs.

https://www.nightfision.com/product/tritium-glow-fob
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For what it’s worth, I just read through a multi page thread regarding their CZ sights- the verdict of the masses is that their tritium isn’t as bright as other examples from other companies. I don’t know, my only experience with tritium is a sighting compass, but I can’t see the appeal of a knife with an insert anyway. Now, if the whole knife glowed, that would be cool 😎
 
AdamFuzzyballs said:
For what it’s worth, I just read through a multi page thread regarding their CZ sights- the verdict of the masses is that their tritium isn’t as bright as other examples from other companies. I don’t know, my only experience with tritium is a sighting compass, but I can’t see the appeal of a knife with an insert anyway. Now, if the whole knife glowed, that would be cool 😎
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I don't have experience with their tritium gun sights, but I have that glow fob on my keychain in green and blue. It's as bright as any other tritium tube that I've owned in that size and I've owned a lot over the years as key fobs. Seems to be as bright as the T100 tubes in my Nite watch also.
 
Bob Denman said:
But how is "Country of Origin" defined?
Where it was sold?
Where it was built?
Where the parts were from?
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Having gone over this in the other thread recently,
Made in America requires all or virtually all of the product to have been made in the country.
You can also label items as 'Assembled in America with foreign and domestic parts' or similar wordage if you, say, had your blades machined in Fiji and shipped here before putting them into your knife.
If the product is assembled elsewhere and imported it legally has to be labeled with the name of the country in which it was built.
 
Insipid Moniker said:
Having gone over this in the other thread recently,
Made in America requires all or virtually all of the product to have been made in the country.
You can also label items as 'Assembled in America with foreign and domestic parts' or similar wordage if you, say, had your blades machined in Fiji and shipped here before putting them into your knife.
If the product is assembled elsewhere and imported it legally has to be labeled with the name of the country in which it was built.
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If it is the same company as Night Fision and made at the same facility, they've already lied. Dearborn is not Detroit 😜.

I know the suburbs get roped in when someone says "Chicago" or "Detroit". On the other hand, you have people that are in the suburbs that say they're from the bigger, more recognizable city just for the clout. Probably what is going on here.
 
Bob Denman said:
Thanks: I missed this earlier...
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So you won’t feel that your missing out anymore, Insipid Moniker Insipid Moniker has even more detailed information is in here too, you just got to look for it.

When it's not exactly Made in the USA - Hoback

Hoback now admitted they source parts from out of country From ig Sorry for the small text, but it's what the company posted. My immediate thought is what a scummy thing to do in all of your advertising using the claim USA made (sorry missing 100 percent mind you), when it's really more...
www.bladeforums.com www.bladeforums.com
 
FWIW, my immediate suspicion is that this is an 'assembled in America out of foreign and domestic parts' situation. If they're already importing and then putting in the tritium they would probably have to disassemble the knives to do so anyway, so why not have them delivered in parts and just put them together?
 
Bob Denman said:
They should have just said "Michigan".
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While it's long over, Detroit still clings to its manufacturing heritage and is desperately trying to keep that image.

I have no clue why. Putting all of their eggs in the manufacturing basket is what killed the city.

Dearborn is the home of Ford Motor Company, Eppinger Dardevle, Carhartt and a bunch of other well respected companies. Be proud of that. Put Dearborn on the card if they're made there.
 
Also, I'm pretty sure the main suppliers of Tritium gas illuminators are Europe (Switzerland) and China. With the light source necessarily imported and a major part of the item's value, the best these could probably hope for is Assembled in the USA from foreign and domestic parts.
 
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