Last year I decided to buy a handgun before the pandemic really took off, but was smart enough to not buy ammo. Come summer I was chatting with the gun store chud about ammo shipments coming in, literally anything from the most popular handgun calibre, and he mentioned that the factories they source from get both their lead and primers from China.
We don't have the domestic manufacturing capacity to fight a civil war.
I love this channel. He's got a video on making a suit by starting with raw materials . I've had this fantasy that I might someday grow a flax crop, process that flax into fiber, spin it out, weave it on a loom, dye it, make clothes. If you're wondering, I've literally never done any of those things. I don't know if flax can even grow in my region. I never so much as mended torn cloth, let alone tailored a whole garment. I'm not sure if I've ever seen a loom in person. So it's a pretty distant, somewhat silly fantasy. Fun to think about, though.
My friend's mom literally has a herd of sheep that she periodically turns into knit-sweaters. She's got equipment she inherited from her own parents (although she's uses more modern electric stuff, too, when she's not feeling nostalgic).
It was incredibly amusing to see a picture of a 2-year-old in a hat that came from the sheep she was sitting on.
The way I see it, if the American gun industry is undermined by Chinese companies then it just means Nazis are out of work and the people making guns are on my side. I'd splurge on an ACOG if my Romeo2 wasn't good enough for the range I shoot an AR at, but otherwise I'll take the cheapest thing that does the job. Bonus points if it fucks the gun companies that send Y'all Qaeda shit in their marketing emails.
I'm aware. I don't, nor would I keep them on my person or in my dwelling at this time. Ammo won't be wasted in the pursuit of ammo.
There have been ammo shortages in my neck of the woods for about a decade, despite the price being way too high
Same here. I don't remember a time where there was not a shortage.
Considering it's seemingly a problem that cannot be solved, I just assume it's artificial scarcity at this point.
This just makes all the preppers who were already hoarding more ammo than they could ever use buy even more.
I feel like there's always an ammo shortage of something or other. 9mm, 22, etc.
There's been an ammo shortage in my area for at least six years. Ended up camping in kentucky a few years ago and stocked up a bit. Their walmart had more ammo then any of my local gun stores.
Huh. Prices had been dropping on stuff like 9x19 Luger for a couple of months. https://ammoseek.com/ammo/9mm-luger Why is anyone panic buying now? If you're conservative, the pandemic is over. The Remington factory is even back at 100% uptime now. To me it seems more like sellers got hooked on the elevated prices from the perfect storm in 2020-2021 and are price fixing or hoarding or something to try to keep the gravy train rolling.
Why is anyone panic buying now?
The entire industry is predicated on a handful of easily gulled hobbyists constantly panic-buying at the drop of a talk radio beat.
To me it seems more like sellers got hooked on the elevated prices from the perfect storm in 2020-2021 and are price fixing or hoarding or something to try to keep the gravy train rolling.
Can't believe capitalism would do this.
Really looking forward to the Chris Rock future world of $5000 bullets.
