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This Whole Ammo Shortage Thing by the Numbers
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| 6/26/13
| Alan Korwin
Posted on 06/25/2013 7:12:56 PM PDT by Nachum
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To: smokingfrog
Maybe, but making 22 ammo would seem to be a whole different machine than the ones making centerfire ammo, so it would seem they only have one option for those machines and that’s 22 or similar rimfire. That, and 17HMR is really expensive. It’s just a 22 magnum necked down to .17, but it costs as much as any centerfire.
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posted on
06/25/2013 8:53:02 PM PDT
by
CodeToad
(Liberals are bloodsucking ticks. We need to light the matchstick to burn them off. -786 +969)
To: umgud
Ditto.
I gave away a brick to a buddy/customer who found himself close to being out of .22s...
To: CodeToad
I was thinking more along the lines of cost to manufacture versus the amount of profit for the various calibers.
The .22 rimfire machines would be totally different and specialized just for that purpose.
A 500 round brick of .22LR costs about the same as a 50 round box of .40 or .45 pistol ammo, but wouldn’t there be a lot more brass and lead going into the .22LR ammo?
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posted on
06/25/2013 9:09:27 PM PDT
by
smokingfrog
( ==> sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
To: CodeToad
Because federal ammo excise tax records are public
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posted on
06/25/2013 9:31:42 PM PDT
by
Atlas Sneezed
(Universal Background Check -> Registration -> Confiscation -> Oppression -> Extermination)
To: Nachum
So only 14 rounds of .22LR are manufactured for every man, woman, and child in the U.S. per year?
Thus only 8.4 million people can purchase a brik of .22LR every year.
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posted on
06/25/2013 10:17:28 PM PDT
by
SampleMan
(Feral Humans are the refuse of socialism.)
To: Figment
"Cant make bullets without brass and primers"
Bullets are to cartridges as flour is to bread as cement is to concrete, etc. When will you and they ever learn?
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posted on
06/25/2013 10:30:43 PM PDT
by
Buffalo Head
(Illigitimi non carborundum)
To: smokingfrog
Someone’s making big $ on it; I’ve seen bricks, online and in stores, go from $9.25 to $75-90. That’s just insane.
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posted on
06/26/2013 2:54:17 AM PDT
by
Carriage Hill
(Guns kill people, pencils misspell words, cars drive drunk & spoons make you fat.)
To: ctdonath2
if the larger companies bought enough equipment to raise production 10%, i think they'd prolly pay for themselves and then some before that happens
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posted on
06/26/2013 4:36:05 AM PDT
by
Chode
(Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
To: Figment
i don't know anybody that loads .22 and that is what the article is about... it also says nothing about component shortages, only production capacity
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posted on
06/26/2013 4:39:23 AM PDT
by
Chode
(Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
To: West Texas Chuck
There is no shortage of .22LRs. I can buy them all day long.
http://www.gunbot.net/ammo/22lr/
To: Atlas Sneezed
Good to know. Didn’t think of something like that.
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posted on
06/26/2013 7:22:02 AM PDT
by
CodeToad
(Liberals are bloodsucking ticks. We need to light the matchstick to burn them off. -786 +969)
To: carriage_hill
"Thats just insane."
No, that is how the free market works to allocate scarce resources. The alternative is "...each according to their needs".
The current administration prefers that those who vote for a living be able to live as well as those who work for a living.
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posted on
06/26/2013 8:26:05 AM PDT
by
Buffalo Head
(Illigitimi non carborundum)
To: Buffalo Head
“...those who vote for a living be able to live as well as those who work for a living.”
My neck hairs are standing on-end. All too true.
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posted on
06/26/2013 12:16:00 PM PDT
by
Carriage Hill
(Guns kill people, pencils misspell words, cars drive drunk & spoons make you fat.)
To: Chode
No, no one reloads 22’s, didn’t mean to imply that at all. They do need powder and brass. Powder is in short supply and brass is scarce and the price has skyrocketed for the raw material. It has turned into the perfect storm as far as supply and demand and doesn’t seem to be easing any time soon. Production is being gobbled up by the gov and the private sector both. I don’t worry about that though, I no longer have any guns to fire the ammo in. They tragically are laying at the bottom of the Tennessee river
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posted on
06/26/2013 4:43:35 PM PDT
by
Figment
To: Buffalo Head
Thank you for the correction. You’re obviously a real fart smeller
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posted on
06/26/2013 4:46:08 PM PDT
by
Figment
To: Figment
i guess my point was that there is no mention in the article about shortages of lead, copper, powder or brass at all, simply that the machines are running at full capacity...
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posted on
06/26/2013 4:52:14 PM PDT
by
Chode
(Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
To: Chode
“simply that the machines are running at full capacity...”
I'm in manufacturing for mainly the auto industry. Running full capacity doesn't necessarily mean running 24/7. You're running all you can is all that it means
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posted on
06/26/2013 7:32:21 PM PDT
by
Figment
To: Figment
very true, i guess i was reading too much into the all the time part...
That is running all the machines, full capacity all the time,
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posted on
06/26/2013 7:50:42 PM PDT
by
Chode
(Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
To: Nachum
Checked Walmart today. Plenty of 9mm, .243, and 7.62x39. No .223 or .308.
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posted on
06/26/2013 8:41:41 PM PDT
by
Gabrial
(The nightmare will continue as long as the nightmare is in the Whitehouse)
To: Chode
A friend who used to stand up manufacturing plants for a living tells me it’s generally a two year process to get new capacity on stream.
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posted on
06/27/2013 1:53:56 AM PDT
by
FreedomPoster
(Islam delenda est)
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