Readers have been well informed about multiple shortages of 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 anti-gun Biden administration. 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.
Besides the ammo shortage of last year, reloading components, like primers, and reloading tools, have become scarce.
“Primers are tough for reloaders to find, too, as more and more of them are being used in making factory ammo,” said gun website Wide Open Spaces.
Bullets are relatively easy to produce. Brass casings can be reused, and powder is still plentiful, but there’s a bottleneck in ammo production because of the lack of primers.
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.
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.
Gun owners are clearly frustrated with excessively high ammo and primer prices that have more than doubled the prices than pre-COVID times.
The fact is, ammo companies didn’t have enough capacity to meet demand last year.
President of ammunition for Vista Outdoors, Jason Vanderbrink, speaks more about the primer shortage.
Due to the ammo and primer shortage, the 3D-printed gun community develops electrical ignitions that replace primers due to the shortage.
There are no signs that ammo and primer shortages are abating anytime soon.
Hokum….
Communists like to tie hands. They do not understand that some hands are unable to be tied.
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Manufactured shortage
And I swear when we uncover the truth
Every manufacturer of said equipment to the people should really look hard at who they are fuking over
We don’t forget
This shortage thing for primers is BULLSHIT! I won’t forget either. I have been on many waiting lists for over one year for primers. None ever show up. NONE!!!! The manufacturers have totally cut off re-loaders and favored exclusively the ammunition manufacturers. I pray for a foreign manufacturer to open a plant in the US. I’ll buy from then on exclusively. Please don’t feed me anymore COVID Bullshit either. In my opinion management of these big US manufacturers should be fired and replaced. It’s one thing to have shortages, but they have cut off re-loaders completely for other users. As I said, I will not forget this.
Amen!!!