Posted on 08/25/2016 5:38:48 AM PDT by SandRat
FORT HUACHUCA — The Directorate of Family and Morale, Welfare and Recreation is facing a more than $500,000 cut to recreation programs starting Oct. 1. As a result, DFMWR had to make tough and potentially unpopular decisions to rebalance its assets and make every dollar count.
Up to this point, some recreation programs have been subsidized. This is no longer possible and passing along the costs associated with these services is prohibitive, especially within Outdoor Recreation.
Outdoor Recreation and the Sportsman's Center will continue all services with the exception of arms rental and ammunition sales, which will end Aug. 28.
This is in Arizona for those who were wondering.
“Arms rental” may just have not been that lucrative since everyone buys their own.
They must have had some cheap prices on ammo.
It sounds more like another federal anti gun move.
And then they will be closing their doors as sales tank to unsustainable levels.
I dunno. Every time I go the the public range at Camp Atterbury military base I see someone renting a firearm to shoot. Once you have acquired the firearm there is no additional cost every time you rent it. Seems like that and ammo sales would be money makers.
You'd think.. I have buddies that are really bargain shoppers on ammo prices. One of them walked all over the floor of a gun show spending over an hour trying to get the cheapest price he could find. I have another bud that scours the Internet for cheap ammo prices. Maybe they didn't offer the lowest priced ammo so people didn't buy their ammo there.
But that's the case with all ranges. Everyone knows ammo will be more expensive at the range because of the captive audience. But ranges still sell lots of ammo.
Troops in billets usually can not have firearms or else it is not practical for them to get their personal firearms out of the arms room to use at the range. Shotguns are particularly popular for trap and skeet shooting as is the ammo for them. Hard to believe that there is not a market for such items on base.
If renting firearms and selling ammunition COSTS too much, the prices are too low. Business 101.
Somehow I believe this has nothing to do with balancing the budget.
Just like Sports Authority. They’re gone.
That is because it is.
Just like some commissaries were closed because some liberal political nutcase said local supermarkets were suffering because of them.
We used to have 4 troop ball fields, 2 theaters. W2 used too have a rail load-master training site and anair-master traingsite with 3 air craft Skeleton, and a Rappeling tower.
Yes it is! And shooting, like hunting, is going the way of the dinosaur at Fort Huachuca and, I suspect, other military bases as well.
Fort Huachuca used to be THE very best place to hunt Coues deer and I know of many people who tried to get civilian jobs on post just so they could hunt there. However, hunting has been curtailed to the point that it’s almost non-existent.
If you are selling ammo tax-free and still can't at least break even, there is a problem.
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