Personally I believe the price will come down,but production will remain the same for a while. Cause when that price comes down to the 2000 or 2001 level people are going to hord like a chipmunk.
[…] SayUncle posted yesterday that ammo makers are preparing for the inevitable downturn. It’s a good read, but the main thing that caught my eye is this: In 1978, there were 318 plants in the United States involved in ammunition production. By 1995, six years after the Berlin Wall fell, there were fewer than 100, according to Loren Thompson, a defense analyst with the Lexington Institute in Arlington, Va. […]
It’s good for business, but as a manufacturing engineer it makes me shudder to think about hiring a bunch of newbies, expanding from 1 shift to 3, and pressing for every bit of production you can possibly get – with gunpowder… Glad I’m in electronics, where the explosions are just naturally limited to very small.
July 24th, 2007 at 2:20 pm
Awesome. War is bad news when you are a civilian that shoots.
July 24th, 2007 at 4:52 pm
Oooh… that’s good. I have some to add when I stop being swamped by work
July 24th, 2007 at 7:09 pm
Personally I believe the price will come down,but production will remain the same for a while. Cause when that price comes down to the 2000 or 2001 level people are going to hord like a chipmunk.
July 25th, 2007 at 6:30 pm
[…] SayUncle posted yesterday that ammo makers are preparing for the inevitable downturn. It’s a good read, but the main thing that caught my eye is this: In 1978, there were 318 plants in the United States involved in ammunition production. By 1995, six years after the Berlin Wall fell, there were fewer than 100, according to Loren Thompson, a defense analyst with the Lexington Institute in Arlington, Va. […]
July 27th, 2007 at 4:20 pm
It’s good for business, but as a manufacturing engineer it makes me shudder to think about hiring a bunch of newbies, expanding from 1 shift to 3, and pressing for every bit of production you can possibly get – with gunpowder… Glad I’m in electronics, where the explosions are just naturally limited to very small.