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Quoted: How hard is it to get into the ammunition manufacturing business? With all the shortages i hear going on for .MIL contracts I'm surprised some Capitalists from the USA havn't tried to get a piece of the pie.
Quoted: Sad when we can't even manufacture enough ammo for our own troops ourselves. Just another blow to our independence as a nation.
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I don't get how we can put a man on the moon, build a nuclear powered rocket, and map the human genome but we can't make enough of our own ammuntion at home.
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You can thank f**k-head Bill Clinton for that. There used to be loads of ammunition arsenals in the US (8 I think?), now just Lake City. Even with Lake City running 24hrs a day, 3 shifts a day they are way short. On top of that Federal is producing ammo for the mil outside of LC. Not to mention Winchesters contracts, and now they have to get the ammo from another country???!!!
What the hell is wrong with this picture?
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So Bill Clinton had the other 7 arsenals shut down? Couldn't they theoretically reactivate those plants or did they sell off the equipment and such. Something just doesn't seem right to me about this whole ammo picture.
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By executive order. As for the equipment I dont know, it may still be there. But I doubt if it is all still there its being maintained. Imagine the security and upkeep that must be done? Hardly what I would think would happen at a closed plant, but I could be wrong.
But come on, if a real war did happen (which IMO I dont think will happen anytime soon, but who knows), there is no way the other arsenals could magically be turned back on and produce ammo the next day.
The largest plant in the US is the ONLY one making the ammo? You dont need to be military genius to know how stupid this is, especially with so many other plants! The LC plant runs 24/7, and it still isnt enough to keep up with the ammo demands on a small scale war!!!