America's Firearm and Ammo Supply Chain Safe?

Dang it ohihunter2014! You made Guinness go up my nose!

 

I don’t know either. I’ve been buying ammo over the past year for silly cheap. It hasn’t gone up much but I’m not buying more now because of the Wuhan flu. Everybody should have already been stocked up and I didn’t start this thread to encourage ammo buying. I do like to shine a light on what we’ve done to our manufacturing capabilities though.

 

I'm glad you got a kick out of it. I am usually not one to panic or be nervous about stuff but one guy made a comment today that made a lot of sense. Look what happen when Hurricane Katrina hit. This will be the same. As much as I don't want to I think I will be getting on RMR website here soon. Right after I go to the local scrap yard and lowes and buy me some carbide metals and saw blades so I can build a tank! Come get some Corona Virus!

 

What an odd sense of humor you have Ohi .

 

I can see a hiccup for a few weeks if, and that’s if, companies from ammo manufacturers, shippers, wholesalers etc. have their people stay away from work for a week or two.

I don’t see the mass panic kicking in like during the Obama-era, but there may be a few empty shelves for a while.

I am not a hoarder, nor am I a profiteer. I will say that I always buy ammo when I see it at a price I like because I’d rather have 500 rounds too many for a weekend of shooting fun than be 5 short. As a result of many years of this mentality I have enough for every caliber/gauge I own for quite a while...



Stay safe.

 

I was in a local Academy store today.

The ammo isle looked like it had been hit by locusts.

Almost no rimfire ammo, almost no pistol ammo, and only the most expensive .223 left.

 

I got one of my many daily ads from PSA a little bit ago and it has a message that leads with, "Due to increasing demand..."
So, guess they are getting "busy"..?

 

Ammoman is wiped out of all but premium ammo. Local Shelves are bare

 

I guess some people don’t believe any of the official guidelines about the Wuhan virus and they think a 2 year winter is coming.

 

He who controls the raw materials and manufacturing will control the supply chain.

Plenty of examples can be found in the history books. In situations where the U.S. was caught short on materials (ie:WWII) we innovate substitutions to fill the void. Rubber shortage....development of synthetic rubber and nylon. Gasoline shortages...development of gasoline "Cracking", allowed more fuel to be produced per barrel of oil. Shortage of transport ships....enter Kaiser's development of modular "Liberty Ship" construction.

If we come up short on materials, new innovations will fill the void.....if short on manufacturing capabilities, other industries will shift their priorities to meet the demand. That's the beauty of a capitalistic society....the freedom of society to create a solution.

 

This is probably the first time in US history that we have so many different industries controlled by our near/almost/easily could be enemy. Hopefully we can adapt and innovative in a hurry.

Anybody know if any powders are completely made here in the US? Australia is being fondled by China so much that I wouldn’t be surprised if powders from there could be held hostage.

 

China isn’t out to get us.

 

Yep I heard you the first time. Anybody who looks at the details knows different or is profiting from business in China. They have admitted their plan to rule the world.

 

This is becoming more and more self-fulfilling disaster. Kansas has had 6 confirmed cases and 1 death so far. So City of Wichita and Sedgwick County just banned public gatherings of more than 250 people resulting in a Gun Show this weekend being cancelled along with some other events.

Of course the City and County are keeping the bars open. Can’t miss out on that tax money.

 

Pinkey and the Brian had a plan to rule the world and look where that got them.

we all profit from China. Everything is made in China cause everyone wants $40hr to drive a Porsche or Benz and companies sent stuff overseas. It sucks but it will never change. If you use a pen at work or a wrench in the shop your profiting from China.

 

There are short term benefits to dealing with China but to what end? Do we make our own clothes? Nope. Our steel industry just about died but luckily that was salvaged to some extent. 5G network? That just about got ugly. There’s several more examples of how we are not self sufficient and China is in control. It more than just sucks. Oh yea how’s our free speech when an NBA owner speaks in favor of freedom?

 

Just checked MidwayUSA and there’s a delay and the price of the items in my cart went up substantially. I don’t trust the last link of the supply chain in this case. I’ll bet UPS and others will have trouble getting packages delivered.

 

Remind me, can't straight walled cases be machined from brass stock ? .357, .45-70, etc ?

 

I would guess they could be but I bet they wouldn’t be strong enough.

 

Well I can’t help to go totally off topic and post the lack of meat in one central Texas grocery store.
Getting ridiculous

 

I went to 4 different stores today looking for toilet paper, was down to my last 3 rolls. Had to rush through some people to grab a 12 roll. I haven't been into any gun shops in the last few weeks, but ammo supply doesn't look good if people are jumping over heads for toilet paper.