Ammo Situation Might Be Getting a Whole Lot Worse....
The rumor is: FedEx and UPS are being badgered into stopping all shipping of ammunition. A "creative" way to severely restrict people's abilities to exercise their 2nd Amendment rights....without even passing any laws.
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Where’s All the Damn Ammo? Federal Premium’s President Has Some Answers
Frustration over the ammo shortage has created some pretty fun conspiracy theories. These are probably the top three: 1) companies are stockpiling their product to drive up demand; 2) ammo plants have shutdown completely; 3) ammo companies are in cahoots to stop selling to civilians and are now selling only to the military. It’s worth noting that similar conspiracy theories cropped up during the panic buying and ammo shortages of 2014. It’s also worth noting that none of these conspiracy theories are true. The reality of the ammo shortage is a lot less provocative. After a few years of tough sledding, ammo companies now simply can’t keep up with the unprecedented demand.9 -
UPS didn't deliver mine today. So I go to the hub and pick it up tomorrow.
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Mr. Perfect: 31514692648091/comments/31514680799003
Interesting article, but I'm not seeing anyone sinking capital into expanding production capacity right now. Getting existing production capability up and running, and running that production capacity as hard as possible, is going to happen, but the political climate is simply too uncertain right now for anyone to sink millions of dollars into a plant for production of consumer targeted ammunition.
I have to wonder too, if FedEx and UPS did implement such a policy of stopping the shipment of ammunition, if it could work -- in the short term -- to actually make certain retail-store supplies more available. It would be the smaller ammunition resellers -- who have to ship nation-wide who would be killed by such policy changes. The retail chains with physical stores would be getting ALL the production supply.
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That's interesting; I got moved. Seems like it would be more of a "General Interest" story (at least to firearm enthusiasts) than a topic of Gun Rights and Constitutional Law. If such a policy was put in place by UPS and FedEx it would be about business decisions by private companies (with perhaps some political influence involved); it really wouldn't be (technically speaking) a rights or law issue.
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select-fire: 31514692648091/comments/31514657194011
UPS didn't deliver mine today. So I go to the hub and pick it up tomorrow.
Not as bad as what FedEx has done to me (dozens of times over literally more than a decade): deliver my stuff to my neighbors. I guess they can't see -- or don't understand -- that the big numbers on the house are supposed to match those little numbers on the package.
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competentone: 31514692648091/comments/31514680925083
That's interesting; I got moved. Seems like it would be more of a "General Interest" story (at least to firearm enthusiasts) than a topic of Gun Rights and Constitutional Law. If such a policy was put in place by UPS and FedEx it would be about business decisions by private companies (with perhaps some political influence involved); it really wouldn't be (technically speaking) a rights or law issue.
Yes, it got moved...by me.
"A creative way to severely restrict people's abilities to exercise their 2nd Amendment rights....without even passing any laws."
Imagine a post about restricting people from exercising their Second Amendment rights ending up in the Gun Rights forum.
Keep anything else you find "interesting" about moved threads to yourself.
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Ouch, glancing lick from the hammer. grins
Seems like there is an old saying that fits here on the GB forums and a good one.
"if you don't have anything good to say, then don't say anything".
Have a great day and ya'll be careful out there.
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How can having nothing get any worse??? Ammo shelves have been empty for months, and forget about primers and powder and bullets.
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