More Ammunition News

27 Aug 09

More ammunition news, from friends across the Country:

In most parts of the Country, 223 is back in good supply. Many police departments are, at long last, receiving orders dating back from the first of the year. 7.62X39 is also currently plentiful.

The only rifle calibers still scarce are 308 and 30M1 Carbine.

There is also no current shortage of 9mm and 40S&W, al least in hardball configuration.

380Auto, in any form, continues to be unavailable nearly everywhere!

The supply pipeline is slowly filling back up, but there continues to be much private hoarding. Small-arms ammunition, in unprecedented quantities, is cramming millions of basements and garages!

In addition, the Pentagon, deprived of its once-impressive archipelago of Army Ammunition Plants, continues to rely heavily on the private sector for small-arms ammunition. A sizeable percentage of American production capacity is permanently dedicated to ongoing military orders.

So, "normal" may have to wait a few more months.

However, between then and now, a major "incident" anywhere in the world, even (yet another) thoughtless word from the White House, and a whole new layer of formally-naive Americans will suddenly wake up, smell the coffee, and enthusiastically re-fuel the demand. Within days, we'll be right back where we were last spring, maybe worse!

Those of us who started smelling coffee long ago need to see to it that we have adequate supplies on hand, both for serious purposes and for training.

Maybe those Mormons aren't so dumb after all, eh?

/John