Posted on 05/20/2009 5:00:59 PM PDT by smokingfrog
Every day, Darren Newsom's three Bitterroot Valley Ammunition facilities crank out 300,000 rounds of ammunition.
It's not nearly enough.
“I'm going about 100,000 rounds in the wrong direction every day,” Newsom said. “We probably have about six months of back orders right now.”
Newsom has been in the ammunition manufacturing business for more than 20 years and he's never seen demand this high.
Fearful of the Obama administration's potential to tighten gun control laws, people from all over the country are stocking up on guns and ammunition.
“I went through the Clinton years and there was a bit of a scare then,” Newsom said. “This is like the Clinton years on steroids. � On the day of the election, our phones started going nuts. It hasn't stopped since.”
As a master distributor for ATK - the world's largest ammunition business - Bitterroot Valley Ammunition supplies other ammunition manufacturers around the country with the components needed to make bullets.
“I get a million primers in every other day and most are shipped out the very next day,” he said. “I have 100 million primers on back order right now. We just can't get enough of them.”
At a recent gun show in Salt Lake City, Newsom sold somewhere between 300,000 and 400,000 rounds in the first two hours.
“It's just unreal,” he said. “Somewhere in lots of basements around the country, there are millions of rounds of ammunition being stored.”
Local businesses have felt the ammunition shortage.
At Bob Ward's in Hamilton, Mike Matteson said there has been quite a run on ammunition and reloading supplies like bullets and powder since the election.
“We are especially low right now with pistol ammunition,” Matteson said. “There are four or five calibers that we don't even have on our shelves.”
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Want to thank you. I fired my CZ 52 for the first time today. What a blast and I can tell it’s way better than I am. I haven’t shot much in a long while and I was dropping them in the little red man’s chest at 10 yards. (I guess it’s the bike riding thing) Recoil is no sweat. I did change out a pair of skanky looking rollers with Harrington’s. I had to double hit one of my Romanian cartridges and one blew a primer out. Obviously not carry ammo. I was Deadeye Dick with this compared to my .38 snub nose. Thanks again.
They even invented a crude single shot .45 strictly as “a gun to get a gun.”
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Since I’m sure that you’ve seen this article (because you contributed to it), I post this link for the benefit of others: “What Good Can A Handgun Do Against An Army?”
http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a3b8a3ddb4869.htm
I know Wolf makes new production stuff and also S&B but yeah, harder to find.
I have a chief’s special right now in my pocket. Buts it has that hammer on it and a 642 doesnt have the sharp edges..Youre right on the money about the crimson trace sights. Ive been thinking of putting them on my glock 19 for some time now.
to be honest, my uncle is too stupid to understand that kind of humor.
If you met him, you’de see what I mean.
Thanks for posting this info!
If it gets to the point they feel comfortable confiscating... Its already too late.
Just make sure your drawing your line WELL short of that point.
The tax revolt is what will undo this thing.....The wheels are beginning to come off.
Fauxbamo and the rest of the Looters don't realize that the achievers and producers aren't simply going to sacrifice themselves for “The Good of the Collective”
It's like two trains heading for each other on the same track – One are the tax Payer's that aren't going to be productive if 80 – 90 % of what they make is seized at the point of a gun
And those that expected to be paid off for their support.
It's not going to turn out well if they don't do something else.
The Tipping Point is NOW!
I'm reminded of a scene with Nicolas Cage in "Red Rock West". Cage hides on top of a truckers cab and startles the trucker. The trucker stops the truck, grabs a large revolver, and points it at Cage. Cage says, "I'm sorry if I scared you". The trucker responds, "DO I LOOK SCARED?".
In short, you might consider that some are motivated by ANGER and not FEAR. Anger that our Constitution is just so much toilet paper in the hands of the Democrats. Anger that what passes for "rights" now are mostly "entitlements", given not by our Creator, but by government. Anger that the rule of law will now be sacrificed for "empathy" on our Supreme Court.
So noted.
What's wrong with "stockpiling" money so that one can purchase goods and services during a crisis? If the owners of a commodity wish to sell to me at inflated prices, how does my "stockpiling" suddenly become "hoarding"?
It really bugs me that our government has become a sort of oligarchy or something.
People in this country put our elected officials up on a pedestal as if they were royalty.
Man this is all backwards.
Now the likes of McCain, Kennedy and Pelosi suck it up and act as if there above us all.
NEWS FLASH: The president and Congress are “Servants of the people”
Everyone who is eligible should buy a gun and learn how to use it. If you already have a gun, buy another. Don’t forget to buy plenty of ammunition. (A store in FL just advertised that they have 1 million rounds for sale, various popular kinds.)
The Second Amendment is just as important as the First Amendment. The Second says, “The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.” Exercise your rights. Insist on your rights.
Any more than you need for a reasonable period is hoarding. Its the jerks out there that have bought massive and unreasonable quantities of primers and ammo that have caused the shortages. Just to feel good. Just to have more than the other guy. Just to satisfy some sort of paranoia. Just to show how clever they are. Just to make huge profits in the future.
The last one will teach these folks a lesson. The same sort of individual bought massive quantities of primers during the Hillary Panic of 1994. They paid up to $35/m for primers that retailed for $15/m at the time. Within 7 months prices dropped back to normal and they were stuck with product that they paid double its real value. Only recently have retail prices risen to that level, and mostly because of the cost of commodity metals.
Some of the folks with excessive stocks of powder and primers had better check the national fire code about storage of such items in their homes and their own insurance policies. Sometimes Carma works.
That is a damn good idea
I think it would be easy to do.
If the people worried about ammo would have put in half the effort and a tenth of the money to elect McCain, we wouldn’t be in this mess.
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