More Ammunition Woes
BY PGF
1 year, 2 months ago
The Hornady plant fire will certainly slow overall ammo production. The extent of manufacturing disruption at Hornady is hard to ascertain.
By now, you’ve heard about Lake City being ordered to stop sales to civilians.
A person with knowledge of the situation tells us that, more than just “considering” the move, Winchester, which operates the US Army’s Lake City ammunition plant, has been informed that it may be blocked from selling M855 and SS109 ammunition produced in excess of the military’s needs on the civilian market.
How would that affect the civilian supply of .223 and 5.56 ammunition? We understand that as much as 30% of the commercial market’s sales volume of .223/5.56 is produced by Lake City.
The White House is now denying this. Making your own seems like an increasingly attractive option. Ammunition control is gun control.
On October 16, 2023 at 10:08 am, xtphreak said:
“…This story isn’t true. We will not let this plant close. …”
Typical political doublespeak.
Offer a strawman response that doesn’t answer the concern raised.
Nobody said anything about “…closing the plant…”.
Of course they aren’t closing the plant, and we still don’t know if they will limit sales to civilian distributors.
On October 16, 2023 at 1:12 pm, Drake said:
I consider myself lucky to live near a Palmetto State Armory store. Their AAC ammo is very good and ridiculously cheap right now.
On October 16, 2023 at 2:30 pm, Mark Matis said:
Ready to make your own primers as well?
On October 16, 2023 at 2:38 pm, Grunt said:
I love the making your own statement. My friends all say that I won’t ever worry about having ammo because I reload. Well I do, but I don’t make primers, powder or bullets. Recall the great primer shortage. Unless you had them stacked deep, you weren’t making your own.
On October 16, 2023 at 3:21 pm, God Guns Guts said:
The controlled demolition takedown by internal quisling traitors only gets worse from now on.
They support the various Trojan horse sleeper armies and not legacy Americans.
The Long March to burn down America once and for all only took 100 years and is ahead of schedule.
The republic experiment is over.
On October 16, 2023 at 10:40 pm, Dan said:
Yes…the left isn’t having as much luck as they’d like in banning guns so they are definitely turning their attention to the ammo side of the equation.