"....Alliant Techsystems, which runs the army-owned factory in Lake City, is in talks with the military about remedying the bullet production shortage, insisting it could expand output by 200m to 300m a year..."
Gadzooks, another illiterate journalist. The word he wants is "remediating"...
Response: Yet another result of "outsourcing?"
Interesting thought. If OUR troops, who are well trained to aim before firing, are getting a bit short, you gotta wonder about the Jihadists whose supply lines gotta be much more fragile than ours and whose primary "tactic" is to spray 'n pray a whole mag.
There's something I find vastly amusing about getting the civilian ammo market to make up for military shortfalls. Heck, they oughta just pass the hat at my local range.
Didn't they do something like this in WWII?
How about a bullets fundraiser. Imagine school children sending their penies to bullets to kill terroirsts. The left would go bald from pulling their hairs.
Am I the only one who is wandering what would happen if we were in a real shooting war instead of fending off a bands of thugs and terrorists as claimed by our leaders?
Now we are running short on ammunition at the same time as we are running short on troops.
Isn't this "war" going ass backward? Isn't the usual process of wind-down after a victory? Isn't it usual for need of troop strength to decrease after defeat of the enemy instead of a build-up? Shouldn't there be less demand for ammunition in mop-up then would be required in full combat between regular armies?
I'm all for supplying the army with more bullets, but it would be better if they gave the troops powder and primers as well, maybe in some sort of self-contained cartridge.
Seems the Saudis needed all the 9mm ammo for celebrating with their Sterlings.
This article is talking about the UK not the US military.
BLOAT. (Should have listened to us)
Makes me contemplate if we should have gone to a 7.62 x 39 round. There is an ample supply to be taken from the enemy.
The Government bans the private sector from owning military style firearms, the private sector stops producing military style ammo to sell to the private sector.
Actions have consequences.
The idiots in Congress don't understand that.
Yep, bet we outsourced that too..
Here's an 'assault weapon ban' take on this.
If every family in America owned an AR-15 there would be plenty of privately owned manufacturers of .223 ammo to pick up the slack.
9mm ammo is in plentiful supply in America thanks to it's wide popularity. I buy 300-500 rounds a month.
The free market always fixes these things. I'm not sure why that's a hard concept to understand, but the handwringers and fingerpointers don't.
I'm interpreting "1.2m" as 1.2 million. Shouldn't this be 1.2 billion?
I will give up my private stock of .223 ammo to the Military providing each bullet ends up residing in the torso or head of a terrorist.
This situation is at least six months old. Unbelievable that it hasn't been addressed yet.