[wyager]

One really nice thing about safety-critical activities is that the equipment tends to be made to extremely high standards and usually lasts a very long time.

If you buy equipment for climbing, shooting, scuba diving, etc. you can reasonably expect that it's made to a very exacting standard (almost certainly in the US, Japan, or Europe) and will last many years (with well-defined consumable components and maintenance requirements).

[jeffbee]

You probably just have a decent budget for guns and haven't seen the dodgy ones. The market is flooded with garbage that I would not even consider firing.

[wyager]

Even a $200 R700 from wal-mart is perfectly safe and reliable. It’s very hard to find unsafely shoddy guns in the US.