I’ve researched it.
It’ is about $5,000,000 in startup costs to start ONE LINE of ammo. That is just to produce the cartridges. You still have cost for raw materials (primers, powder, brass), labor costs as well as marketing/branding, shipping, licensing, lawyers, and most importantly Insurance costs.
This is assuming that you are going to produce in enough volume to compete at a national level.
I guess that would be a start-from-scratch. But for an existing ammo business to add factories that would be cheaper? And anyhow are there any patriotic $10,000,000’aires around who wouldn’t mind sinking half their fortunes?
And who’d worry about competing if you could sell all you made locally at a decent price... hey, let the mail orders come in. Get your stuff quality vouched by recognized gun clubs and hey, now you got HiTechRedNeck rounds... well, if I had the $10 million I’d entertain the idea.
don’t forget attorney fees because you’ll need an attorney to fight the feds just to get them to issue you a license and then there is also the licensing fee.
It’ is about $5,000,000 in startup costs to start ONE LINE of ammo. That is just to produce the cartridges. You still have cost for raw materials (primers, powder, brass), labor costs as well as marketing/branding, shipping, licensing, lawyers, and most importantly Insurance costs.
This is assuming that you are going to produce in enough volume to compete at a national level.
The price sounds about right. I have done some research as well, but much lower capacity. The current problem with producing ammo right now is getting the raw materials. The supply chain at the moment is suffering from unanticipated demand. Take gunpowder for example, which is made of many chemicals. A shortage of one chemical stops the production of certain types of gun powder, which in turn stops the production of ammo that uses that gun powder. There's plenty of brass for cases, copper for jackets, and lead for cores at the moment, but the prices are high. Assembly lines however have not expanded signifcantly because a shortage of powder and primers.
That’d be for a huge operation, but who needs it. You can buy 10-20 Dillion 1150’s at 2k a pop and crank out 1000 rounds an hour per. The real hard part is getting the primers—very hard to find.
Back in 2007 when our Leader sorry Loser ran for office. There was no ammo to be found. I told myself never again. I started reloading. Best move I did. Saved my brass, bought primers, projectiles & powder. Now i load whatever i want. No ammo shortage here. Shoot 4 boxes for the price of 1.