utter baloney!
CountyComm is a USA company in California that buys chinese products and sells them to anyone who will pay. They claim one of their customers is the US govt. CountyComm does not manufacture anything themselves, they do have things made to their specs, in China, in order to try to control exclusive product designs. Sometimes CountyComm will take an existing chinese product and ask for it to be manufactured with some unique exclusive features, but they are based on existing Chinese products, for example the Peanut Light, which is very similar to the DQG line of 10180 lights.
Currently CountyComm has Lumintop make the Maratac for them, on exclusive contract, using the same electronics and tooling as the Lumintop Tool (the maratac body is an exclusive, the head is the same as the tool). Same thing DarkSucks did (another US company in California), when they had Lumintop make the Prometheus Beta QR, which is almost identical to the Copper Worm. (The Beta body is an exclusive, the electronics and head are the same as the Worm). The copper Beta, like the Copper Maratac have been marketed in the past at over $70 each, and people buy them.
Previous versions of the Maratac, and Tool, had more aggressive knurling, which is now just simple scored lines, cheaper to manufacture, and so they are now being sold for half of the initial prices. This is similar to what happens with other Chinese electronics and products, someone comes out with an “exclusive design”, they sell it for the highest price they can, when the high priced buyers run out, the items go on sale through numerous resellers, for example Banggood, Gearbest, and the US company Massdrop.
Apple computer is also a US company, that sells chinese products made on exclusive contract.
CountyComm is not much different than a used car salesman, that makes you think they have something special you want, and gets you to pay as much as possible, but ultimately will drop the prices until the items sell.
I still like the CuMaratac, a lot, I also like my iPhone. They are not made in USA by any stretch of the imagination.