America’s Big Ammunition Plants Are Running at Full Capacity
Why is factory ammunition so hard to find? That’s the question on many gun owners’ minds. There are some crazy rumors — that production has been slowed on purpose — or that there is a secret warehouse somewhere, full of ammo. In fact, those rumors are nonsense — the major ammo production facilities of Vista Outdoor are running around the clock to meet demand.
That message was recently delivered in a video featuring Jason Vanderbrink, President of Vista Outdoor’s ammunition manufacturing division, which includes brands Federal, CCI, Speer, and Remington.
Millions of new gun owners have created an unprecedented demand for ammo in 2020.
Huge Demand from Millions of New Gun Owners
Vanserbrink points out some basic economics: “Seven million new shooters since March, times 2 boxes (a conservative estimate) is 700 MILLION new rounds of ammunition [that] our three factories have to produce. That is impossible to do in nine months.”
In this video, Vanderbrink asks for patience and seeks to quash rumors. While conceding that the pandemic has created challenges, Vanderbrink declares that the ammo plants are running at full capacity:
“We know, ammo seems hard to come by right now. But rest assured, we are building and shipping more and more every day[.] We are making ammunition every minute of every day … We are making more hunting ammo than we ever have. We are doing our damndest to meet the demand!”
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Thanks for the explanation & for buying the Remington ammunition business. They make fine ammo as Federal does also. We have some 209 primers saved up since Bill Clinton was in office & we like to shoot skeet in the warmer months. I know at that time there was panic buying of primers of all kinds because there was a rumor that a 1 1/2 year shelf life was going to be put on all primers. I know that you people are working as hard & quickly as possible. I’m glad our ammunition is being made in the U.S.A,
So this is the first time in the history of the US where we have companies allegedly making product, knowing they can sell as much as they can make no matter how much, yet are, for some reason, deciding all that huge potential of profits and growth is not worth it to invest in doubling or tripling the company size? Something smells funny despite the claims. NEVER has demand of THIS HUGE an amount been able to kill off the American ability to profit/produce/grow. Why are there no NEW manufacturers and investors seeing this wonderful money making opportunity and opening up their own ammo factories? Even if the companies bought millions of dollars of machinery to expand, they would make profit off of it – yet they do not. I think the swamp has infiltrated.
This is panic buying — the ammo companies all hired extra staff and bought extra production capacity during the Obama administration, then ended up laying folks off in ’17 when the panic buying stopped. I loaded up on ammo in ’18 and ’19 when it was cheap, and stopped buying. Buy it cheap, stack it deep, and these kinds of panic buys won’t happen. This is like toilet paper last year — everyone buys all they can get because they’re worried it will all be gone next time they need to buy it.
I decided to try and start making my own ammo as a hobby, spent $1000 in equipment, then found out powder and primers are impossible to get these days. Without expensive factory grade equipment and special licence, I can’t make primers and propellent. Same with bullets and cases, millions of dollars in tooling is required to make cartridges from scratch. This shortage is temporary, by the time a new entrepreneur like me tools up a factory to make ammo, the demand will have returned to normal, and no profits for me because by then ammo will be plentiful and cheap again. It would be like opening up a toilet paper factory, spend millions, then have no more shortage and no returns on the investment. Capitalism gone wild, its as American as the bullets here.