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A Third Primer Manufacturer Now Tooling Up For Production in Texas in 2022
The Truth about Guns ^ | January 26, 2022 | John Boch

Posted on 01/29/2022 10:42:07 AM PST by Texas Fossil

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A much needed timely event in Texas.

Ammunition plant coming to the Texarkana area

https://www.ktbs.com/news/texarkana/ammunition-plant-coming-to-the-texarkana-area/article_a00ac8b4-7a38-11ec-83e4-5754598b14c6.html?utm_campaign=blox&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social

By JULIE PARR, KTBS TV Jan 20, 2022

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Job fair today:

https://www.expansion-industries.com/

1 posted on 01/29/2022 10:42:07 AM PST by Texas Fossil
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To: Texas Fossil

Oh yes please...BTT


2 posted on 01/29/2022 10:48:32 AM PST by Billthedrill
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To: Texas Fossil

You can be sure that rather than encouraging and assisting this much-needed new initiative, Brandon’s Administration will sic the EPA, OSHA, BATFE, IRS and as many other tentacles of the FEDGOV on the owners, in an effort to obstruct, delay, discourage and disrupt their operations.

Good luck to them. I wish them every success.


3 posted on 01/29/2022 10:50:37 AM PST by SharpenedEdge (Stockpile. Prepare. Arm. Train. A Storm is coming.)
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To: PROCON

Ping


4 posted on 01/29/2022 10:52:48 AM PST by Tilted Irish Kilt
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To: Texas Fossil

Next,they need to resurrect the lead smelter the Obama Admin killed off.


5 posted on 01/29/2022 10:56:24 AM PST by CarmichaelPatriot (Recovering Kalifornian... Loving Alabama!)
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To: CarmichaelPatriot

Yes, I remember they closed on in OK when I was living there. (not near it)

The Red River Arsenal is an old facility. I remember being there for a couple of weeks in the early 1970’s.


6 posted on 01/29/2022 11:04:06 AM PST by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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To: Texas Fossil

Now if they would pick up the slack for powder, business would really start booming.


7 posted on 01/29/2022 11:08:08 AM PST by LastDayz (A blunt and brazen Texan. I will not be assimilated.)
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8 posted on 01/29/2022 11:14:16 AM PST by PROCON (Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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To: PROCON

Thanks,
Primers are much
Welcomed!


9 posted on 01/29/2022 11:21:02 AM PST by Big Red Badger (Make His Paths Straight!)
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To: Texas Fossil

I understand that folks can get what they want. But the hoarding is at a level that is absolutely ridiculous.


10 posted on 01/29/2022 11:25:33 AM PST by qaz123
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To: Texas Fossil

I hope they have a retail store next to the factory. It would do a lot a business.

A box of 1000 small rifle primers from CCI lists for $76, and weighs under a pound (currently out of stock).

I could see hand loaders making a pilgrimage to them and getting a trunk full for themselves and their friends.


11 posted on 01/29/2022 11:33:17 AM PST by SauronOfMordor (A Leftist can't enjoy life unless they are controlling, hurting, or destroying others)
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To: qaz123

“But the hoarding is at a level that is absolutely ridiculous.”

Opinion on what this level is varies greatly.


12 posted on 01/29/2022 11:35:37 AM PST by alternatives? (The only reason to have an army is to defend your borders.)
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To: SauronOfMordor; alternatives?
IDK...

Remember the ammo shortage that took place under Obummer? The call for an equivalent "Civilian Army"? And the large acreage fenced-in areas?

And now, 100s of thousands of military-aged men are crossing our southern border.

Anything adding up?

13 posted on 01/29/2022 12:15:48 PM PST by Does so (Americans had no desire for war between 1939 and 1941. Rheinland? Sometimes...War Finds YOU!)
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To: alternatives?

Well, for me that opinion is not showing up at BassPro, with a cart, putting your arm on the shelf and dumping the contents of the shelf into your cart....Is that an exaggeration, YES.... a little bit.

I know most stores are rationing all this stuff and I know the ammo manufacturers are buying up most of it.

But there are also the types out there that think there is going to be war in the streets and they’ll be like, Benjamin Martin, running around.

Issue with that is....the very large majority of the people that think that, the ones with stickers all over their cars, are under the impression that a civil war is going to break out, but they’ll still live their lives as they are. They think they’ll be able to tell their buddy.....Uhhhh, yeah, I can be here tomorrow and Thursday from 5-8 and Saturday, right after my daughters softball game.

And if they think that BLM is going to start roving through neighborhoods, doing home invasions, etc etc etc, they’re believing the wrong person.

I’m not saying that they shouldn’t be prepared for something to happen to them. But having a stockpile of 10-15,000 primers and counting, of various sizes, is a bit ridiculous.


14 posted on 01/29/2022 12:21:28 PM PST by qaz123
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To: Texas Fossil
I've had short term projects at a couple of WW2 era munition manufacturing sites. Both of these and I suspect essentially all similar era munition manufacturing sites fall into the category of permanent brown fields that can be remediated to a much less contaminated and safer condition satisfactory for industrial reuse but cannot be 100% cleaned up.

The OP article mentions that part of the manufacturing will make use of the existing “hardened” infrastructure. I've been around hardened infrastructure around certain hazardous industrial equipment but hardening around these old military munition plants is off the charts.

One of the old munitions manufacturing sites I did some things at has been in continuous operation since WW2 making munitions of the same general type. The manufacturing trains and the storage areas are in long, narrow buildings divided into about 20x20ft rooms with doors opening into a wide hallway running the length of the building.

Each manufacturing room has equipment doing one step of the process. Small openings between adjacent rooms pass the pass the munition from room to room via a blast lock such that the rooms are never directly connected by an opening. Walls, ceilings and floors are several feet thick reinforced concrete. Doors to the hallway and to the wall locks are several inch thick of armor grade steel and had a small glass viewing port as thick as the steel door. Equipment now is fully automated and remotely observed by CCTV.

Back in the day, a handful of workers would be in each bay operating the equipment. What was different from my industrial experience is that the manufacturing bays were designed to contain an explosion instead of directing one towards safe direction. In addition, each bay was originally and still is connected to a water deluge system that will fill a bay floor to ceiling in seconds. Refer back to the top where I mentioned that originally, the bays were each staffed with several workers - No escape from fire, explosion or drowning.

15 posted on 01/29/2022 12:26:08 PM PST by Hootowl99
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To: SharpenedEdge

I don’t know anything about the company, but this is certainly needed. Not sure who is baking it, but want it to take off an become a huge thing.

If it does, it will rapidly change the availability of ammunition. Primers are the missing component in the ammo supply.

Fed Gov has by rule making only allowed foreign primers into the USA for manufacturers. Nothing for those who reload ammo.


16 posted on 01/29/2022 1:15:42 PM PST by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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To: Hootowl99

My father in law, was a division manager at Pantex. I took him for his last visit in Oct 2009. He died in December 2009.

They once had an incident of an explosion in a bay, caused by cutting shaped charges. Operator error. He violated cut rate, was angry. Lives were lost.


17 posted on 01/29/2022 1:21:48 PM PST by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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To: SauronOfMordor

The going scalper price for primers is now $130-$225, plus shipping and haz charges, per box of 1,000.

Reality? The manufacturers hate those who reload and the government wants us all disarmed.


18 posted on 01/29/2022 1:24:48 PM PST by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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To: qaz123

Yes. It is.


19 posted on 01/29/2022 1:25:30 PM PST by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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To: qaz123
Anyone who thinks they are going to pop off 10,000 rounds unnoticed, if civil unrest happens is extremely dilusional.

my stock is in long term food storage, antibiotics, liquor,. Its all lighter then ammo and ammo wont save your life if a cut or scrap gets infected. Ill trade you a bandage with triple antibiotic on it for a box of .223, 9mm, 40 cal,

20 posted on 01/29/2022 1:25:55 PM PST by Ikeon (40 years ago the USN had blanket partys, now it pillow fights)
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