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1 posted on 04/29/2023 10:31:07 PM PDT by kiryandil
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To: kiryandil

Well it appears OBiden made it priority to get it back online again. /sarc


2 posted on 04/29/2023 10:33:12 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: kiryandil

Definitely an attack from the inside.


3 posted on 04/29/2023 10:33:33 PM PDT by Jonty30 (Black widow spiders aren't the only species that eats their mate after finishing with them. )
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To: kiryandil

Aren’t there a lot of people who know how to make that powder?


4 posted on 04/29/2023 10:38:44 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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To: kiryandil
Black powder is fairly easy to produce. Why is it so difficult to get another facility up and running?

Black powder substitutes are cleaner burning and produce less fouling and are available to enthusiasts. Part of the problem is that the substitutes are preferred by most people.

https://www.midwayusa.com/product/1013083717

5 posted on 04/29/2023 10:42:18 PM PDT by fireman15 (Irritating people are the grit from which we fashion our pearl. I provide the grit. You're Welcome.)
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Dept. of Homeland Security, DOT, NHSTA recently came to a job fair at our local community college - made offers to all the kids who had studied machining, engine technology and drafting/construction - basically anyone who studied some math and was smart enough to enter a skilled trade (not the gender-studies retards - who all go into county social services)

With unlimited printed money and debt, Fed.gov it seems will always pay higher compared to the local, private diesel/engine repair shops, construction firms and machine shops - who are all scrambling for skilled workers.

Its simple “crowding out.”

And they wonder why there is no one to manufacture munitions.

Just another way bloated Fed.gov f***s the whole economy


6 posted on 04/29/2023 10:54:16 PM PDT by PGR88
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To: kiryandil

I remember a few years ago doing some contract work for a DoD contractor who repaired radar systems, etc. It was near Talladega, ALA. On the grounds were old WWII large naval shell assembly bunkers where they loaded and processed the rounds. An elaborate maze of trolley tunnels, copper grounding straps everywhere. An amazing bit of history to see up close.


8 posted on 04/29/2023 10:59:34 PM PDT by Gaffer
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Estes took over the Goex plant and is making powder again. US government is their largest customer. This article is hogwash.


12 posted on 04/29/2023 11:18:51 PM PDT by Chad C. Mulligan
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“Decades of consolidation”

Take that, Putin!!! We know how to apply the smartest and brightest MBA graduates, from IVY LEAGUE schools, to make our military much more efficient!


20 posted on 04/29/2023 11:43:56 PM PDT by BobL
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No one was hurt in the June 2021 blast. But the factory remains offline, unable to deliver its single vital component to either commercial or Pentagon customers.

Just finishing the work of destroying the military that Clinton started when he shut down so many bases and downsized the military, traitor that he is.

23 posted on 04/29/2023 11:52:58 PM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith….)
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To: kiryandil

Let’s Go Brandon


31 posted on 04/30/2023 12:40:46 AM PDT by Allegra
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To: kiryandil

Black Powder Matters.


34 posted on 04/30/2023 2:05:22 AM PDT by rfp1234 (E Porcibus Unum )
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To: kiryandil

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37 posted on 04/30/2023 3:21:40 AM PDT by sauropod (“If they don’t believe our lies, well, that’s just conspiracy theorist stuff, there.”)
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The real “whoops!” Is in giving away every weapon that uses gunpowder to support corrupt nations that will think nothing of turning those weapons on us while we are vulnerable and can’t do a damn thing to stop it. WHOOPS!


39 posted on 04/30/2023 4:49:52 AM PDT by Qwapisking ("IF the Second goes first the First goes second" L.Star )
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To: kiryandil
Black powder is not used in modern arms in any fashion with the notable exception of very large cannon. None of the arms listed in the article utilize black powder.

Black powder is the "lowest" explosive that can make it to military charts.

45 posted on 04/30/2023 5:58:03 AM PDT by GingisK
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“Department of Defense relies on to produce bullets”

What?


49 posted on 04/30/2023 6:33:39 AM PDT by dljordan
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https://www.defenseone.com/voices/gordon-lubold/9686/

(photo at link)

Gordon Lubold is a senior military writer for Defense One. Before that, he was a senior national security writer for Foreign Policy magazine and foreignpolicy.com, where he launched and authored the widely-read Situation Report newsletter, sent to 150,000 readers in the foreign policy and national security community each day.

Prior to that, he was a senior advisor at the United States Institute of Peace in Washington, where he writes on national security and foreign policy.

Prior to his arrival at USIP, he was a defense reporter for Politico, where he launched the popular “Morning Defense” early morning blog and tip-sheet.

Prior to that, he was the Pentagon and national security correspondent for The Christian Science Monitor,

and before that he was the Pentagon correspondent for the Army Times chain of newspapers.

He has covered conflict in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan and other countries in South Asia, and has reported on military matters in sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America.

He has spoken frequently on the sometimes-contentious relationship between the military and the media as a guest on numerous panels.

He also appears on radio and television, including CNN, MSNBC, CSPAN and others, and radio programs such as “Diane Rehm” and “To the Point,” a syndicated broadcast on NPR.


52 posted on 04/30/2023 7:09:53 AM PDT by Texas Fossil (Texas is not where you were born but a State of Heart, Mind and Attitude.)
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God punishes you when you only have one of something.


53 posted on 04/30/2023 7:21:05 AM PDT by Army ret QM
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Sounds like a good time for China to invade Taiwan (bad) or maybe even California (good?).


65 posted on 04/30/2023 12:33:27 PM PDT by immadashell (Save Innocent Lives: Ban Gun Free Zones)
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