{"id":63173,"date":"2021-05-01T15:07:47","date_gmt":"2021-05-01T19:07:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=63173"},"modified":"2021-05-01T15:07:47","modified_gmt":"2021-05-01T19:07:47","slug":"are-these-ammo-and-primer-shortages-being-engineered-to-deprive-gun-owners-of-ammunition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=63173","title":{"rendered":"Are these ammo and primer shortages being engineered to deprive gun owners of ammunition?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ammo And Primer Shortages Continue Into 2021<\/h1>\n

ZeroHedge.com<\/p>\n

Readers have been well informed about multiple\u00a0shortages<\/a>\u00a0of ammunition and firearms in the last year due to a massive demand pull from frightened Americans during the COVID-19 pandemic, social unrest in cities around the US, and the prospect of an\u00a0anti-gun Biden administration<\/a>. Now another shortage has materialized: the lack of bullet primers, which is the device responsible for initiating the propellant combustion that pushes the bullet out of the barrel.<\/p>\n

Besides the ammo shortage of last year, reloading components, like primers, and\u00a0reloading tools<\/a>, have become scarce.<\/p>\n

“Primers are tough for reloaders to find, too, as more and more of them are being used in making factory ammo,” said gun website\u00a0Wide Open Spaces<\/a>.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

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Bullets are relatively easy to produce. Brass casings can be reused, and powder\u00a0is still plentiful, but there’s a bottleneck in ammo production because of the lack of primers.<\/p>\n

There are only four domestic manufacturers in the US: Federal, CCI, Remington, and Winchester. These firms supply primers to the military and law enforcement and the retail market.<\/p>\n

So in 2020, when more than 7 million people became first-time gun buyers. They had to buy bullets too. And as a result of the unprecedented demand for ammo, selling out at Walmart, local gun shops, and online websites, the great primer shortage continues.<\/p>\n

Gun owners are clearly frustrated with excessively high ammo and primer prices that have more than doubled the prices than pre-COVID times.<\/p>\n

The fact is, ammo companies didn’t have enough capacity to meet demand last year.<\/p>\n

President of ammunition for Vista Outdoors, Jason Vanderbrink, speaks more about the primer shortage.<\/p>\n