NSSF: Ammo under attack (VIDEO)

What kills me, is that not one single gun group (NSSF, NRA, etc.) is addressing or will address the ongoing manipulation of ammunition at the retail level.

My constant ‘consider this’ ammunition caliber is the .22 Long Rifle round. For those unfamiliar with it, it is a small-caliber, barely-supersonic, non-military, non-law enforcement, generally accepted as ‘one-step above a top grade air rifle’ ‘plinker’ caliber. 20 years ago, you could get all you wanted, 50 rounds in a box (that weighted about 3-ounces) for around $1.50. With this, you could go hunting for small game (rabbits, squirrels, etc.), and with dubious success, some have even hunted small whitetail deer with it (but not legally in most states).

Among the ‘Big 5′ ammunition plants in America, between 7 and 10-million ‘bullets’ (rounds) were made EVERY-SINGLE-DAY of the year. You always saw it on the shelves at your local big box department stores, every gun store, and most online ammo sales. Unless you wanted the ‘premium stuff’, you could get it for around $1.25-$1.75 per 50-count box, whenever you wanted it, up to 1,000 rounds per day. No one thought anything but that you were a ‘happy plinker’ to buy so much. As a military or Police round, it was not sufficient for anything they did. NO GOVERMENT ENTITY BOUGHT THEM.

Fast forward to 2008. Suddenly, you have to move mountains to find .22LR rounds in the store. The story is ‘manufacturers are producing them just as fast as always, and have even put on more shift workers to go full-steam 24 hours a day, 7-days a week’. BUT, you can’t find them in the stores. Instantly, a majority of liberal MSM sources carry this story of shortages, but instantly find that ‘oh, it’s just being sold online in bulk to horders!’. Now, the story turns on its ear to ‘nasty horders and online ammo sales. We must stop that!’. But, the calm, rational mind says ‘ok, lets’ watch the sales and see what happens. Suddenly, if you go on a couple of the REALLY BIG online ammo and gun sales websites, you find that the online auctioners show a couple of pages of high-priced ammo listings, but FEW BIDDERS! Ok, so every day 300,000 rounds are put up for auction – but of 50 sale-blocks, only 2 have ANY BIDS. This is still only moving about 3-percent of total claimed daily production, even if all 50 auction blocks sold. All major online retailers that sell online are either ‘forever backordered’ or have totally closed ‘ammo online sales’ as a result of this issue.

We go back and ask the manufacturers, ‘where are the .22LR rounds? It’s been 7-years of shortages, we need jobs, the justification is there to buy capital assets to produce 20, 30, 40 million rounds a day – WHERE ARE THE .22LR increased JOBS, SALES, PRODUCTION NUMBERS???’ The answer? ‘We are working around the clock to produce .22LRs and will continue to do so’.

They didn’t answer your question, the NRA doesn’t do anything but buy into the cover (lame that it is) story, and the others are right there with them. Now, where is it going and what could be done to actually dig to the bottom of the truth about this LIE?

With the power of the NSSF, the NRA and other gun groups, they COULD PUSH to have the manufacturers release detailed shipping data BY CUSTOMER, for the past 5-years! It is a SOLID DETAILED RECORD, because it is ammunition. The manufacturers treat their required shipping list archives like the classified report of who actually owns the Federal Reserve Bank. Ask yourself why. They won’t release who they ship to, citing ‘customer confidentiality’, but at the same time, there is no reason to suspect what I assume is on that list – and that is a bulk massive sustained buy out by the Federal Government (on a caliber round that they DO NOT USE). Why would they do this, if they don’t use it? EASY, they are buying them OUT OF RETAIL CUSTOMER REACH! They aren’t stocking them, storing them, or hording them – THEY ARE BUYING THEM AND DESTROYING THEM, with your tax dollars. This does three things. It keeps them out of your reach as an end customer. It prevents the manufacturers from claiming government intervention (by not affecting their production numbers in general), and it keeps their profits where they always were, while giving a pseudo-gun-control effect to the masses.

The proof in this theory? Easy. If it wasn’t the government intervention at work, then why won’t the ammunition manufacturers increase their production capacity? If you own a company that works AROUND-THE-CLOCK to make a for-profit product, and you can’t make any more without expanding your resources (more machines, more factories, more jobs, more payroll, more profit), then WOULDN’T YOU EXPAND to reach more market? OF COURSE YOU WOULD! UNLESS, of course, the government gave you a deal you had to (by law) stick to. Maybe not law. Maybe the ATF told them ‘enter this ‘agreement’ with us, or we’ll shut you down all together and use the EPA lead issue to make sure you are tied up in environmental litigation for YEARS as a result.’ Maybe that’s why the lead vs zinc issue is coming up again now that we near 2016. This is a classic manufacturer shake-down to remind them which way to push their employees to vote in 2016, OR ELSE.

It’s not really a genius plan – but it sure seems to be working well. I say spend a day trying to source 1,000 (two bricks) of .22LR for less than $40, then keep opening your search until you can do so within a day of trying (no shipments direct from Russia, please). Then, start backtracking the product with the knowledge that EVERY SINGLE DAY, 10-million rounds are manufactured JUST IN AMERICA for this caliber. Now, ask yourself, WHERE IS IT GOING?!?! The answer you keep coming back to, the only one that makes sense, is that the government is using bulk buying with your tax dollars, for a round they are going to DESTROY once they take delivery of it; as a means of gun control.

Why? Because, if they can break you from buying that first firearm, normally a .22LR rifle, then they can break a generation of ‘loving the guns’. It really is that simple. Thank you, NRA and NSSF, for helping them accomplish this goal.