Posted on 02/27/2022 8:18:56 AM PST by rktman
Well,
All Amendments Are Equal, But Some Amendments Are More Equal Than Others!
I think AK’s like
Steel cased.
Wow, I had not heard that America was in a war with Russia. Do you have some breaking news?
And the Marxist Lefties you are helping out, are totally fine with suing domestic ammunition manufacturers out of business with the support you have just given them.
Not so critical for an AK. Lacquered steel is fine there. The wedge shape of the chamber makes it extract easily, and the AK extractor is harder than the steel casing so it doesn’t wear. You can use steel for decade in an AK since it was designed for it. Not reloadable.
The problem comes when you use it in a 9mm pistol or nearly straight rifle case like an AR or M1 Carbine. They can stick in a chamber and horrifyingly rip the casehead off and you are seriously not clearing that. You can destroy the softer extractors too.
AK steel is fine, but never ever in our rifles. Just not worth it.
Isn't that patriotic of you!
From your statement I am assuming that the highest caliber firearm you own is a BB gun. For instance, the difference between Wolf and domestic brands for 7.62×39mm has been far more than “a few extra cents a round” recently. Wolf and the other Russian brands have been around $.35 a round compared $2.00 a round or more for Remington if you could even find it. And that is the real goal here. In the calibers we are talking about domestic companies don't even make it for the most part.
And I don't even keep track of such things very closely since I reload most of my 7.62×39mm and Nagant handgun ammo. Of course, I have a bunch of corrosive berdan primed spam cans stockpiled for Armageddon but that is another story.
I’m an American. I don’t have Russian rifles.... I have American rifles.
Doesn’t matter if the profits still flow back there.
Can we use this retroactively to chuck Hillary in the hoosegow over the Uranium One controversy? Yeah, I doubt it.
How about when her husband, Bent Bill Clinton, transferred US Ballistic Missile Stage Separation Technology and Multiple Independent Reentry Vehicle Technology to the Communist Chinese Army in exchange for Campaign Contributions for the DNC from Charlie Trie?
Would that count?
Why would you knowingly fund our enemy? Just to save a few bucks?
WTF?
proves me one thing:
good ol’cowboy lever action rifles should not have trouble finding the caliber necessary for its ‘diet’.
it may not look ‘woo woo’, it might not load and shoot nasty pointed bullets, it might not have detachable and/or big round drum magazines, but unlike those things, you can keep loading as long as you carry bullets, it might just go one bang when you press the trrgger, but your one zhould be sufficient - downrange.
Maybe you consider it more important to save a few bucks on ammo than you do to support manufacturing ammo domestically, but I don't. Certain industries that are qualify as critical for national security should be solely sourced domestically, and ammunition is one of those. Further, when you buy Russian ammunition, you are helping to keep Russian ammo factories in business. Can't really bring myself to do that.
Give me a break! I said in my post that I reload my guns from Eastern Block countries. But it is interesting to see who is buying into Biden's ridiculous political theater. I assume that you are into MMA and pro-wrestling as well. The Russian people are not our enemies and Putin is now playing the part of the villain for the benefit of our own petty dictators who are starting to get push back. Putin for the most part hasn't even shut down the power, phones, cell phones, and high speed internet in the Ukraine.
“I’m totally fine with stopping Russian ammo imports and meeting that demand with domestic production. Seems to me like subsidizing Russian ammo manufacturing capability rather than our own wasn’t a good idea from the jump.
I’m willing to pay a few extra cents a round to make that happen.”
It not just a few extra cents per round.
The big problem is there isn’t enough American capacity to meet the demand.
American companies are un-willing to spend the money to meet the market demands which can be quite cyclic and subject to the political cycles eg Democrats are very good gun and ammo salesmen.
Bush 1, killed off Chinese ammo sales and now Biden has chopped Russian ammo sales.
We are now short on ammo.
Get the idea? RINOs and Democrats want us disarmed.
Interesting that in Ukraine the first thing they did was start to hand out guns to civilians and tech them how to make Molotov cocktails.
What is the chance a Democrat or GOPe government would do that?
But I also do not buy into the political theater going on right now. Because I am not an idiot. The Russian people are no longer our enemy and Putin is just playing his part as villain in this political theater that seems custom made to take the heat off the petty dictators who have been systematically destroying freedom in their own supposedly free countries.
That's just fundamental economics. Yes, some ammo will become more expensive, and that's the price that we pay because Americans won't work as cheaply as will Russians.
Into MMA?
No. And even if I was, what does that have to do with anything.
Clown post.
I am sorry to hear that. People who have bought completely into this political theater also tend to believe what they see on professional wrestling and MMA. You are probably really missing out on something that you would find very enjoyable.
That's kind of like saying "Real ammo doesn't have 'millimeter' in the name"...
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