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.
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.
Finally, the one shortage I’m not worried about getting shot over.
There have been ammo shortages in my neck of the woods for about a decade, despite the price being way too high
This just makes all the preppers who were already hoarding more ammo than they could ever use buy even more.
