Can anyone elaborate on this email I got?

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You may not know this but George Soros owns most of the ammunition
manufacturing companies and many arms manufacturers as well. He's selling ONLY to the government right now, per WH & DHS orders. My son works for ATK, who owns just about all the rest of the ammunition companies that Soros doesn't own. He tells me that ATK has been ordered by the federal government to curtail sales of ammunition, primers and powder to the retail market. What you see currently on the shelves is old stock and what's left in the warehouses since the CT shootings and new stock will NOT be appearing anytime soon. ATK and Soros' companies have more than enough government contracts to keep them going for years to come. Like Soros' companies, ATK is a huge defense contractor and they've been told to sell ONLY to the DOD, TSA, FBI, DHS and local/federal law enforcement agencies. This is VERY scary and VERY ominous for what's coming down the pike in the future.

My son has seen the proposed pricing schedule for Federal, CCI, Hornady,
Remington, Winchester and several other ammunition manufacturer's lines of ammunition, components, reloading equipment (ATK owns Outers, RCBS, Hoppe and a host of others) and he's flabbergasted! As an example, when the sales of .22 LR bulk ammo resumes, the pricing will be over $50.00 for a 535-round Value Pak! That's nearly a dime-a-shot!! They're also going to
raise the prices by 300 - 400% on dies, presses, powder measures and the
like. He's in management there at ATK in Salt Lake City and they're NOT
happy with it at all! They firmly believe this will basically shut-down
the civilian market while leaving the government as the only purchaser of
their products. He saw the government pricing for the centerfire
ammunition they've been stockpiling and their prices have actually dropped
from a year ago so the feds are buying this stuff REAL cheap while we
can't even get our hands on it at all!

Something I've always said since Obummer came onto the scene in 2008 is
that, even if they can't actually ban the weapons themselves, the
government will make it nearly impossible for us civilians to feed them
with ammo, reloading components and the like. The WH doesn't HAVE to
actually ban the guns, as Biden said in one of his many faux pas,
foot-in-the-mouth, Freudian slip speeches he's famous for making. " All
we have to do is to make it too expensive to use them and the public will
eventually give them back to us if we offer an attractive price for these
weapons". What's an "attractive price" - a $10.00 Walmart gift card for a
$3,000.00 custom hunting rifle? Those were his EXACT words in one of the
speeches he gave to the freshman congressmen last week! Remember, Biden was one of the architects of the Clinton gun ban of years ago. I think
he's as dangerous to the Second Amendment as Obozo is, maybe more so,
because he's so stupid and doesn't know the muzzle of a gun from the
butt...

Feel free to pass this on so gun owners will be aware of what we're up
against. I doubt the NRA can do anything about it, IMHO. La Pierre can
get on all the talk shows he's invited to and cry the blues about the
assault weapons laws that are forthcoming from the WH but the real crux of
the matter will be whether or not we'll ever be able to purchase
ammunition (at all) or, if we can, what we'll be paying for it. As an
aside, here, I deal a LOT with Midsouth Shooters Supply for my reloading
components. Two weeks ago I ordered 500 cases each of .45 Casull, .44
Magnum, .357 Magnum and 9mm Parabellum. I was told everything I had
ordered was out-of-stock and no in-stock delivery date was being forecast.
They wouldn't even accept a backorder for this stuff! Think the
government isn't manipulating it? Think again, my friend...
 
I've heard murmuring about this, but I'm not yet completely convinced that this is the case. I know that Soros has investments in many areas, to include ammo companies, but does he have a controlling interest?

Even if he did, why would he want to prevent their sales to the private sector, which would be by far their biggest customer?

Is the email the body of your post? Who did this email come from?
 
The words "baseless fear mongering" come to mind. That looks a lot like the conspiracy emails that flew around about any president taking over the country, or some government agency recording our phone calls or something like that. Really don't think Soros owns much in the way of ammunition companies. He might have some ATK stock, but even that I doubt unless it's part of a larger fund.
 
As socialist as George Soros is and claims to be, he has never passed up the opportunity to make a capitalist buck or take advantage of the system. But that has mostly been in the financial markets, and I can't see consumer gun ammunition being the kind of thing he would give much thought to.
 
First, I am not aware of any legitimate authority of the federal government to tell private businesses who they can sell to. Second, Soros has been rumored to own many firearm and ammunition companies and this has been shown to be an urban legend every time I have seen it come up. The most recent internet rumor was his purchase of Marlin, right after it was announced that Marlin was closing it's plant in CT. (Marlin didn't go out of business, they just moved to a more legitimate state.) The Snopes link below is about the Marlin rumor. Third, ATK is a publicly owned company and nobody owns a controlling interest in it. The largest shareholder, First Eagle Investment Management only owns 15% of the company, and no other shareholder owns more than 5.5%, as seen in the chart at the ATK link shown below.



http://www.snopes.com/politics/guns/freedom.asp

http://www.atk.com/investor-information/investor-information-ownership/
 
I am beginning to think this junk is made up to show gun owners as completely insane. Pretty easy to fact check as the others have shown. Even anyone with even the simplest knowledge of firearms and ammunition, let alone someone with with $5K in a 401K would know it's not even close to truth. And really never pass anything like this on, really not even cool from supposed "news outlets".
 
Can anyone elaborate on this email I got?

This stuff has been on the web for years. Its more lies from the far out fringe "media". Folks who get their news from infowars, wnd and prisonplanet spread it all over the web.
 
It is a lie being passed on innocently and maliciously. We've explained repeatedly that Soros has nothing to do with arms or ammunitoin manufacturing.
 
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