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Let Freedom Ring,
Posted on 05/18/2010 4:03:17 PM PDT by Second Amendment First
In a firefight, a soldier armed with an M-16 rifle can zip through a couple hundred bullets.
The United States military is fighting wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
That combination is prompting the biggest surge in production at the Lake City Army Ammunition Plant near Independence since the Vietnam War.
This year the plant will produce about 1.5 billion rounds of small-caliber ammunition. And the complex is in the middle of a $244 million modernization program to keep up with the demand.
Its work force has jumped from 600 people when its current operator, Minneapolis-based Alliant Techsystems, took over the facility a decade ago to about 2,800 workers now.
That’s a far cry from its World War II heyday, but the same grimy machines that produced ammo for the grandfathers of some of the troops now fighting overseas continue to crank out polished cartridges of 5.56 mm, 7.62 mm and .50-caliber ammunition each day. A more limited supply of 20 mm cannon shells also is made there.
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Let Freedom Ring,
Thanks, I forgot it.
Probably because he has the extra production set aside for his domestic policies....and I’m only half joking about that.
Anyone know the status of the recurring “destruction of once-fired military brass” story, re: Alliant? That bubbled back to the top a few weeks ago but I’ve heard nothing further...
This warms my heart. Glad I bought a bunch of black tip 30.06 for the old NM Garand while it was still available. Hedged my bet by purchasing a bunch of 30 cal AP pulls and Lake City match 30.06 cases.
I got a pile of that from a CMP shoot I did a few years back. I don't even own a riffle-gun that shoots the stuff but I figured "what the hell.."
I'm glad I did.
Is that guy in St. Louis still in business? He used to have all kinds of cool pulls. I got some blue tip .45 pulls. Boy is that stuff fun! Grabbed a couple hundred 5.56 blue tips, too.
I've got so much 7.62 LC brass laying around that it's an embarrasment of riches. A buddy of mine used to sweep the range the local Fibbies and ATF types used. He did it for free. Only caveat was he got to keep the brass. It's all stamped "M". LOL.
We polished it all in a small cement mixer, that's how much we had.
I bought 3K of that LC green tip from Ammoman back when it was $169/K. It hurt back then but now it's doing better than my 401K.
I bought 5K of 7.62 Russian when it was $139/K. Yea, it's that Russian stuff but it goes BANG and those Romanian AK's we slipped into the stash can go through a lot.
I haven't actually bought anything but a couple large boxes of 12 gauge 000 in years.
That probably means I'm not shooting enough.....LOL
Isn't that the truth. Bought most of mine in the run-up to Y2K. Most of those places are out of business, now.
BTW, I love that image of using a small cement mixer as a case tumbler.
If you’re interested in getting any more ‘06 Match brass, Jeff Bartlett’s still got some.
Improvise, adapt, and overcome my friend. We had so much it would have taken months to run it through my vibratory. So we rented one of those for a day and cranked 'em all out over a weekend.
BTW don't buy that expensive specialty tumbling media. Go to the pet store and get the crushed walnut shells you use for birds. It's dirt cheap and works just as well.
How are you fixed for .40 cal brass? I've got a thousand or so laying around and have no use for them. To give you an idea it's a carboard motor oil case and I'd say it's about 1/2 full of once fired Winchester cases. It hasn't been cleaned or deprimed but it came from that same range.
Say the word and it's yours.
Hope all is well out your way.
I believe it was a retread from last year.
guess i'm confused... i thought they were running about max capacity for some time???
That's what I suspected, seeing how Georgia Arms hadn't raised another alarm.
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In a firefight, a soldier armed with an M-16 rifle can zip through
a couple hundred bullets.
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Yes.
When the rules of engagement lets them.
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