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From NRA ILA
Treachery! White House Moves to Strangle U.S. Ammunition Supply

Thursday, June 16, 2022 Treachery! White House Moves to Strangle U.S. Ammunition Supply
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Last night, news broke that the Biden Administration is taking behind-the-scenes steps to further strangle the already constricted market for ammunition in the United States. The move could result in a reduction of the commercial production of 5.56 caliber ammunition by over thirty percent.

The move, if completed, would dramatically reduce availability of ammunition for America’s most popular rifle (and, not coincidentally, the one most targeted by gun prohibitionists).

Supplies would undoubtedly plummet and prices would undoubtedly skyrocket, putting the availability of ammunition for self-defense, training, and competition out of reach to many Americans.

News of the move was broken by Larry Keane, the general counsel and senior vice president at the National Shooting Sports Foundation, the leading trade association for America’s firearms and ammunition industries. Keane on Wednesday night published a tweet, which stated: “The U.S. Military is actively considering shutting down the sale [of] M855/SS109 ammo from Lake City to the commercial market.”

The cartridges mentioned in Keane’s post are very popular forms of 5.56 caliber ammunition, the most common caliber for the AR-15.

Close followers of Second Amendment issues will remember that these same rounds were targeted by the Obama/Biden administration under the guise of relabeling them “armor piercing ammunition,” which is banned from commercial sale by federal law. The resulting (and righteous) furor from the Second Amendment community was so intense that it culminated in Obama’s ATF director, B. Todd Jones, quitting his job. Jones had been the first and only confirmed ATF director since Senate approval became required for that post.

Lake City is a sprawling ammunition plant in Independence, Missouri, originally established by Remington in 1941 to manufacture and test Ammunition for the U.S. Army. It is currently owned by the government and operated by private contractors and produces well over a billion rounds of ammunition per year.

Ammunition in excess of the government’s requirements has long been made available to the private commercial market. Lake City’s output, according to some estimates, accounts for one-third of the 5.56 caliber ammunition available to U.S. consumers.

Of course, gun prohibition advocates have a long-standing desire to ban the AR-15 and other types of semiautomatic long guns outright. Joe Biden in particular loves to brag of authoring the so-called “assault weapons” ban that Bill Clinton signed into law in 1994. Congress, however, allowed the ban to expire 10 years later, after a Department of Justice sponsored study was unable to substantiate any significant crime reduction benefit from it.

Needless to say, this attack on America’s ammunition supply is just the most recent in a long line of anti-freedom attacks by the Biden Administration.

NRA will be working to fight this effort to crush America’s ammunition supply, just as we did with the last attack on M855 ammunition, and will provide updates as more information becomes available

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  • greenbloodgreenblood Member Posts: 14,520
    edited June 2022
    Sledog said:

    From NRA ILA
    Treachery! White House Moves to Strangle U.S. Ammunition Supply

    Thursday, June 16, 2022 Treachery! White House Moves to Strangle U.S. Ammunition Supply
    Support NRA-ILA

    Last night, news broke that the Biden Administration is taking behind-the-scenes steps to further strangle the already constricted market for ammunition in the United States. The move could result in a reduction of the commercial production of 5.56 caliber ammunition by over thirty percent.

    The move, if completed, would dramatically reduce availability of ammunition for America’s most popular rifle (and, not coincidentally, the one most targeted by gun prohibitionists).

    Supplies would undoubtedly plummet and prices would undoubtedly skyrocket, putting the availability of ammunition for self-defense, training, and competition out of reach to many Americans.

    News of the move was broken by Larry Keane, the general counsel and senior vice president at the National Shooting Sports Foundation, the leading trade association for America’s firearms and ammunition industries. Keane on Wednesday night published a tweet, which stated: “The U.S. Military is actively considering shutting down the sale [of] M855/SS109 ammo from Lake City to the commercial market.”

    The cartridges mentioned in Keane’s post are very popular forms of 5.56 caliber ammunition, the most common caliber for the AR-15.

    Close followers of Second Amendment issues will remember that these same rounds were targeted by the Obama/Biden administration under the guise of relabeling them “armor piercing ammunition,” which is banned from commercial sale by federal law. The resulting (and righteous) furor from the Second Amendment community was so intense that it culminated in Obama’s ATF director, B. Todd Jones, quitting his job. Jones had been the first and only confirmed ATF director since Senate approval became required for that post.

    Lake City is a sprawling ammunition plant in Independence, Missouri, originally established by Remington in 1941 to manufacture and test Ammunition for the U.S. Army. It is currently owned by the government and operated by private contractors and produces well over a billion rounds of ammunition per year.

    Ammunition in excess of the government’s requirements has long been made available to the private commercial market. Lake City’s output, according to some estimates, accounts for one-third of the 5.56 caliber ammunition available to U.S. consumers.

    Of course, gun prohibition advocates have a long-standing desire to ban the AR-15 and other types of semiautomatic long guns outright. Joe Biden in particular loves to brag of authoring the so-called “assault weapons” ban that Bill Clinton signed into law in 1994. Congress, however, allowed the ban to expire 10 years later, after a Department of Justice sponsored study was unable to substantiate any significant crime reduction benefit from it.

    Needless to say, this attack on America’s ammunition supply is just the most recent in a long line of anti-freedom attacks by the Biden Administration.

    NRA will be working to fight this effort to crush America’s ammunition supply, just as we did with the last attack on M855 ammunition, and will provide updates as more information becomes available

    How can the government limit ammunition production? Aren’t these produced by independent companies? It would make sense that production would decrease due to a metal shortage, which I believe we have at least on some metals.
  • pawzpawz Member, Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 21,267 Founders Club
    edited June 2022
  • USMChawkUSMChawk Member Posts: 1,800

    Sledog said:

    From NRA ILA
    Treachery! White House Moves to Strangle U.S. Ammunition Supply

    Thursday, June 16, 2022 Treachery! White House Moves to Strangle U.S. Ammunition Supply
    Support NRA-ILA

    Last night, news broke that the Biden Administration is taking behind-the-scenes steps to further strangle the already constricted market for ammunition in the United States. The move could result in a reduction of the commercial production of 5.56 caliber ammunition by over thirty percent.

    The move, if completed, would dramatically reduce availability of ammunition for America’s most popular rifle (and, not coincidentally, the one most targeted by gun prohibitionists).

    Supplies would undoubtedly plummet and prices would undoubtedly skyrocket, putting the availability of ammunition for self-defense, training, and competition out of reach to many Americans.

    News of the move was broken by Larry Keane, the general counsel and senior vice president at the National Shooting Sports Foundation, the leading trade association for America’s firearms and ammunition industries. Keane on Wednesday night published a tweet, which stated: “The U.S. Military is actively considering shutting down the sale [of] M855/SS109 ammo from Lake City to the commercial market.”

    The cartridges mentioned in Keane’s post are very popular forms of 5.56 caliber ammunition, the most common caliber for the AR-15.

    Close followers of Second Amendment issues will remember that these same rounds were targeted by the Obama/Biden administration under the guise of relabeling them “armor piercing ammunition,” which is banned from commercial sale by federal law. The resulting (and righteous) furor from the Second Amendment community was so intense that it culminated in Obama’s ATF director, B. Todd Jones, quitting his job. Jones had been the first and only confirmed ATF director since Senate approval became required for that post.

    Lake City is a sprawling ammunition plant in Independence, Missouri, originally established by Remington in 1941 to manufacture and test Ammunition for the U.S. Army. It is currently owned by the government and operated by private contractors and produces well over a billion rounds of ammunition per year.

    Ammunition in excess of the government’s requirements has long been made available to the private commercial market. Lake City’s output, according to some estimates, accounts for one-third of the 5.56 caliber ammunition available to U.S. consumers.

    Of course, gun prohibition advocates have a long-standing desire to ban the AR-15 and other types of semiautomatic long guns outright. Joe Biden in particular loves to brag of authoring the so-called “assault weapons” ban that Bill Clinton signed into law in 1994. Congress, however, allowed the ban to expire 10 years later, after a Department of Justice sponsored study was unable to substantiate any significant crime reduction benefit from it.

    Needless to say, this attack on America’s ammunition supply is just the most recent in a long line of anti-freedom attacks by the Biden Administration.

    NRA will be working to fight this effort to crush America’s ammunition supply, just as we did with the last attack on M855 ammunition, and will provide updates as more information becomes available

    How can the government limit ammunition production? Aren’t these produced by independent companies? It would make sense that production would decrease due to a metal shortage, which I believe we have at least on some metals.
    It’s in the article. At some point Remington sold their ammunition manufacturing plant (Lake City) to the government. They are contemplating doing away with private sales, which would reduce the amount of available 5.56 by 30%.
  • HHuskyHHusky Member Posts: 21,626
    Those Episcopalians aren't going to shoot themselves.
  • USMChawkUSMChawk Member Posts: 1,800
    Why is the government in the manufacturing business?
  • pawzpawz Member, Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 21,267 Founders Club
    HHusky said:

    Those Episcopalians aren't going to shoot themselves.

    This thread doesn't concern you.

  • HHuskyHHusky Member Posts: 21,626
    pawz said:

    HHusky said:

    Those Episcopalians aren't going to shoot themselves.

    This thread doesn't concern you.

    Wrong.

    I'm praying for you.
  • HHuskyHHusky Member Posts: 21,626
    pawz said:

    HHusky said:

    pawz said:

    HHusky said:

    Those Episcopalians aren't going to shoot themselves.

    This thread doesn't concern you.

    Wrong.

    I'm praying for you.
    There is not a single thing I need in this life from you.

    Fuck off.

    That's just what someone who needs my prayers would say.
  • pawzpawz Member, Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 21,267 Founders Club
    HHusky said:

    pawz said:

    HHusky said:

    pawz said:

    HHusky said:

    Those Episcopalians aren't going to shoot themselves.

    This thread doesn't concern you.

    Wrong.

    I'm praying for you.
    There is not a single thing I need in this life from you.

    Fuck off.

    That's just what someone who needs my prayers would say.
    I have something you can put in your mouth while you are on your knees. I'm sure you will be familiar, if not an expert.

    Fuck off.


  • HHuskyHHusky Member Posts: 21,626
    pawz said:

    HHusky said:

    pawz said:

    HHusky said:

    pawz said:

    HHusky said:

    Those Episcopalians aren't going to shoot themselves.

    This thread doesn't concern you.

    Wrong.

    I'm praying for you.
    There is not a single thing I need in this life from you.

    Fuck off.

    That's just what someone who needs my prayers would say.
    I have something you can put in your mouth while you are on your knees. I'm sure you will be familiar, if not an expert.

    Fuck off.


    What was the retort you thought was even less clever?
  • RaceBannonRaceBannon Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 107,693 Founders Club
    HHusky said:

    pawz said:

    HHusky said:

    pawz said:

    HHusky said:

    pawz said:

    HHusky said:

    Those Episcopalians aren't going to shoot themselves.

    This thread doesn't concern you.

    Wrong.

    I'm praying for you.
    There is not a single thing I need in this life from you.

    Fuck off.

    That's just what someone who needs my prayers would say.
    I have something you can put in your mouth while you are on your knees. I'm sure you will be familiar, if not an expert.

    Fuck off.


    What was the retort you thought was even less clever?
    This one
  • HHuskyHHusky Member Posts: 21,626

    HHusky said:

    pawz said:

    HHusky said:

    pawz said:

    HHusky said:

    pawz said:

    HHusky said:

    Those Episcopalians aren't going to shoot themselves.

    This thread doesn't concern you.

    Wrong.

    I'm praying for you.
    There is not a single thing I need in this life from you.

    Fuck off.

    That's just what someone who needs my prayers would say.
    I have something you can put in your mouth while you are on your knees. I'm sure you will be familiar, if not an expert.

    Fuck off.


    What was the retort you thought was even less clever?
    This one
    pawz says he's ready if you want to suck him off, Race. And it looks like you do.

  • RaceBannonRaceBannon Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 107,693 Founders Club
    HHusky said:

    HHusky said:

    pawz said:

    HHusky said:

    pawz said:

    HHusky said:

    pawz said:

    HHusky said:

    Those Episcopalians aren't going to shoot themselves.

    This thread doesn't concern you.

    Wrong.

    I'm praying for you.
    There is not a single thing I need in this life from you.

    Fuck off.

    That's just what someone who needs my prayers would say.
    I have something you can put in your mouth while you are on your knees. I'm sure you will be familiar, if not an expert.

    Fuck off.


    What was the retort you thought was even less clever?
    This one
    pawz says he's ready if you want to suck him off, Race. And it looks like you do.

    And this one

    Meltdown incoming
  • pawzpawz Member, Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 21,267 Founders Club
    HHusky said:

    HHusky said:

    pawz said:

    HHusky said:

    pawz said:

    HHusky said:

    pawz said:

    HHusky said:

    Those Episcopalians aren't going to shoot themselves.

    This thread doesn't concern you.

    Wrong.

    I'm praying for you.
    There is not a single thing I need in this life from you.

    Fuck off.

    That's just what someone who needs my prayers would say.
    I have something you can put in your mouth while you are on your knees. I'm sure you will be familiar, if not an expert.

    Fuck off.


    What was the retort you thought was even less clever?
    This one
    pawz says he's ready if you want to suck him off, Race. And it looks like you do.

    Projecting. Imagine my surprise.

  • Fire_Marshall_BillFire_Marshall_Bill Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 24,495 Founders Club
  • pawzpawz Member, Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 21,267 Founders Club

    pawz said:

    .

    Disagree
    Agree.
  • AtomicPissAtomicPiss Administrator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 64,554 Founders Club
    USMChawk said:

    Sledog said:

    From NRA ILA
    Treachery! White House Moves to Strangle U.S. Ammunition Supply

    Thursday, June 16, 2022 Treachery! White House Moves to Strangle U.S. Ammunition Supply
    Support NRA-ILA

    Last night, news broke that the Biden Administration is taking behind-the-scenes steps to further strangle the already constricted market for ammunition in the United States. The move could result in a reduction of the commercial production of 5.56 caliber ammunition by over thirty percent.

    The move, if completed, would dramatically reduce availability of ammunition for America’s most popular rifle (and, not coincidentally, the one most targeted by gun prohibitionists).

    Supplies would undoubtedly plummet and prices would undoubtedly skyrocket, putting the availability of ammunition for self-defense, training, and competition out of reach to many Americans.

    News of the move was broken by Larry Keane, the general counsel and senior vice president at the National Shooting Sports Foundation, the leading trade association for America’s firearms and ammunition industries. Keane on Wednesday night published a tweet, which stated: “The U.S. Military is actively considering shutting down the sale [of] M855/SS109 ammo from Lake City to the commercial market.”

    The cartridges mentioned in Keane’s post are very popular forms of 5.56 caliber ammunition, the most common caliber for the AR-15.

    Close followers of Second Amendment issues will remember that these same rounds were targeted by the Obama/Biden administration under the guise of relabeling them “armor piercing ammunition,” which is banned from commercial sale by federal law. The resulting (and righteous) furor from the Second Amendment community was so intense that it culminated in Obama’s ATF director, B. Todd Jones, quitting his job. Jones had been the first and only confirmed ATF director since Senate approval became required for that post.

    Lake City is a sprawling ammunition plant in Independence, Missouri, originally established by Remington in 1941 to manufacture and test Ammunition for the U.S. Army. It is currently owned by the government and operated by private contractors and produces well over a billion rounds of ammunition per year.

    Ammunition in excess of the government’s requirements has long been made available to the private commercial market. Lake City’s output, according to some estimates, accounts for one-third of the 5.56 caliber ammunition available to U.S. consumers.

    Of course, gun prohibition advocates have a long-standing desire to ban the AR-15 and other types of semiautomatic long guns outright. Joe Biden in particular loves to brag of authoring the so-called “assault weapons” ban that Bill Clinton signed into law in 1994. Congress, however, allowed the ban to expire 10 years later, after a Department of Justice sponsored study was unable to substantiate any significant crime reduction benefit from it.

    Needless to say, this attack on America’s ammunition supply is just the most recent in a long line of anti-freedom attacks by the Biden Administration.

    NRA will be working to fight this effort to crush America’s ammunition supply, just as we did with the last attack on M855 ammunition, and will provide updates as more information becomes available

    How can the government limit ammunition production? Aren’t these produced by independent companies? It would make sense that production would decrease due to a metal shortage, which I believe we have at least on some metals.
    It’s in the article. At some point Remington sold their ammunition manufacturing plant (Lake City) to the government. They are contemplating doing away with private sales, which would reduce the amount of available 5.56 by 30%.
    People want to know where the $40 billion to Ukraine went. Wouldn't surprise me if some of it is being used to thwart the second amendment.
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