I’m having no problem finding .223 , 7.62 and 9mm online and cheaper than last year
There is plenty of ammo out there, but it is still pricey.
When they went bankrupt, Remington fired all the long-time employees with years of experience (and high wages) at making ammo and hired back low wage “temps” who had zero experience at making ammunition and the result is low quality, low quantity ammo. One box of new .30-06 Remington ammo had 13 cases with split necks.
The article would have us “blame” COVID. But it seems to be that their RINO governor has more to do with the particular manufacturing plant in question. In fact, the article seems to be a “diversion”.
Two things that individual states need to do ASAP.
1) Create their own arms and ammo manufacturers, to operate and sell in state, weapons and ammo “for in state use only”. Trying as much as possible to get raw materials in state as well. Eventually this may preclude all sorts of federal involvement and interference.
2) Create their own mint to produce gold and silver coins of high purity, with a face value reflecting only the price of the metal plus a guaranteed currency value. For example, right now, gold is less than $2000/oz, so the *currency* price of the coin, in state, should $3000/1 oz coin, for example. Of course, most coins would be for fractions of an ounce.
Silver is currently less than $25/oz, so a state minted silver coin should be worth $50/1 oz coin. States should also have a clause that its face value is guaranteed by the state *plus* the add on value to equal the US currency; to avoid the federals looting the states coins from its citizens.
this article reads like it was building towards a more full point, but ended before it got there.