No bullets so I converted mine to shoot sodden tampons...
As another Lame Cherry exclusive in matter anti matter.
I would expect that most of you have no idea that the United States is out of ammunition, and has been for months.
I spoke with a sporting goods dealer who lives in Minnesota, and he told me that hunters from the Twin Cities, were purchasing shotgun loads from him, and one of them noted that he had handgun ammuntion, and walked out of the stores with 600 dollars worth of ammo, as any kind of ammunition can not be had in BLM and ANTFIA Minneapolis.
There is a great deal of speculation as to what is taking place. This blog informed everyone that ammo disappeared in the Obama era, when Obama contracted with ammo makers for 1.5 billion rounds of 40 Smith and Wesson for regime stores......the problem is the FBI scuttled the 40 SW and went 9 mm, so the ammo monopoly did work to keep Americans from buying it, and instead being gouged.
There are no real hard data on ammo. I found this blurb.
About 39% of the small arms ammo in the world is made in the US. Annual production of the world is about 14 BILLION rounds of ammunition.
So the United States produces around 6.5 billion rounds of ammo a year. The Government has it's own arsenals like Lake City, but the Government does not have a manufacturing supply on components.
Some had speculated that lead comes out of China, but bullets are available. Powder is available. Brass is available. What was in short supply was primers. Gun & Ammo published this data in August.
the U.S., only four domestic manufacturers produce primers: Federal, CCI, Remington and Winchester. Those four firms feed the entire primer supply including ammunition sold to the military and law enforcement. Millions upon millions of primers are produced every year by these companies.
One has to do the math to see if it adds up. For two years running, gun sales even with Donald Trump as President have smashed the gun buying fear under Birther Hussein Obama.
July Gun Sales Smash Record, 2020 Sales Exceed All of 2019
The industry group Small Arms Analytics & Forecasting said the 2 million firearms sold in July represented a sales increase of 134.6 percent compared to July 2019. Handguns accounted for 1.2 ...
Where there was palates of ammunition available in January 2020, before the biological weapon attack upon the United States, there is not any ammo left. Consider the increases in gun sales.
I was speaking to a local gun dealer, and the kid said, all the AR 15's are gone. They have firearms, but nothing in the commando range. So 2 million firearms were sold in July. 1.2 million were handguns. 800,000 would dominate the AR 15s. These are new purchases so keep that in mind.
I was talking to a Quadroon at the counter, and he stated he was buying guns for his kids. This was some flap from the Air Force, and you can not legally buy guns for others, but for each new gun, consider that 100 rounds are purchased. That is an additional 200 million rounds of ammo disappearing each month. The United States then, from January to August, in normal military, law enforcement (they shoot ammo up like shit through a goose) had civilians purchasing 1.6 billion more rounds of ammo.
The United States was already producing 6.5 billion rounds, and you remember what Birther Obama did to the system with a 1.5 billion round additional purchase in it screwed up the supply for 4 years. The United States civilians did one Obama buy in a few months. So according to the data, there is not some liberal buy up of companies to shut them down, but the reality is that with only 4 primer manufacturers, where the military and law enforcement are the first hogs to the trough, that the citizens are not going to find their ammo needs met.
You have to understand that ammo is not one size fits all. Different calibers require different powders. There are dies that make rifle and handgun cartridges. Shotgun shells are different components. If a company is geared up for 40 Smith & Wesson as Obama monopolized the market, they can not just loading 223 rifle ammo or 9 mm. Yes there are production lines in a company does not just make one type of ammo, but there are things like seasonal production. A company will produce for recreational shooting in the summer, produce for hunting in the fall, produce for home defense. They will have worked out production quotas, as it is not going to do them any good to make 500 million rounds of 250 Savage which costs them money in not selling that round, when it could go to making 30 30 Winchester. In that, if the demand in back orders are for 45 ACP, that is the round they will load for first, rather than a 32 H & R magnum, even if it is the gun your wife carries for protection.
I have contacted several ammo manufacturers, and you get bullshit answers from we are gearing up as fast as we can to we have shipped to these stores. When I contacted the stores.......either they would not reply. they did reply and did not have the ammo or said they had the ammo, but their site was being retooled, so I could not order it....even though they quoted me price and shipping.
So the numbers based on primer shortages appear to be a reality choke point, but some of the major distributors or reloading components are still not providing primers, even though the following quote states that several million were on their way to the United States and should have cleared customs at this time.
The reality in that is, thee American sources are focused on production of the most profitable or most sold calibers. Primers are large and small, primers are shotgun and centerfire cartridges, on size does not fit all, and when there are handguns sold, and most of them are 9 mm's at 1.2 million and 800,000 rifles in 223, then that is where the production will be focused.
It will not matter if you have millions of 38 specials, 10 mm, 45 ACP and 45 Colt. The 9's and 223's will get the production. Oddly in some checks, I found you could purchase that Goddamn 454 Casull, a magnum version of 45 Colt, but no one wants that hand cannon, as it is too much gun, and even though you can fire 45 Colt in a 454, you can't fire a 454 in a Colt, because it would blow the revolver up.
Internationally, primers are manufactured by several firms in different parts of the world. Armscor in the Philippines, for example, Sellier & Bellot in the Czech Republic, Fiocchi in Italy and JSC in Russia are some of the more prominent companies. An industry insider told G&A that several million primers are currently en route from Europe to the U.S. by way of ship, which may help meet at least some of the demand for loaded ammunition. Still, those primers need to arrive, be offloaded, clear customs and then be distributed to the various manufacturers who can use them to produce ammunition. This will take time.
This simply is not going to be rectified. Foreign gun owners who own US plants are spiking prices, and the spike in ammo prices is making immense profits. Just like under Obama, under Trump the same cartel is making record profits, because the cartel has this all part of an agenda to scare people and to make people feel secure behind their locked doors with more ammo stockpiled than toilet paper.
All of this could be alleviated if Treasury Secretary Mnuchkin would stop punishing American consumers in denying them access to Russian made goods. Russia could manufacture billions of rounds of ammo for Americans at affordable prices and firearms for half the price Americans are being charged for guns made in Turkey.
As for me in the brier patch, I was fortunate sort of, as I could not get any ammo, but after running down leads, I was told I could cross into a plague infested BLM ANTIFA state (Yes to my wonder I witnessed a 50 yard wide by 10 feet high BLACK LIVES MATTER sign on a moron farmer's lawn, and fittingly as we crossed the border, there in the Goddamn weeds was a Goddamn cop sitting there trying to speed trap people.) but I was able to secure 50 rounds of ammo from a defunct company, which produced low power loads. All of which turn my firearm from a club to hit terrorists over the head with to something that goes bang and I would hope the bullet does not lodge in the barrel or does break the skin of the said terrorist.
This is America for God's Sake. I never thought it would be like 1775 again in the guns are all foreign and you can't get any ammunition at any price.
If I had money for cognac, I would pour TL a glass of it and say PROSIT, as those who planned all of this deserve to be toasted, as this is one fine agenda to perfection that they have achieved.
Once again, another Lame Cherry exclusive in matter anti matter.
Nuff Said
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