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What the actual fuck. I just can't believe that none of these companies are able to figure out their primer shortage. How difficult is it to make ammo? People can make it at home!

Everyone is talking about Biden's gun bill or whatever, not realizing that without ammo (and affordable ammo to actually practice) gun ownership is pretty much useless. If it costs more than a dollar a round, people will just use guns only for hunting, or will be horribly out of practice and not proficient if they have to defend themselves.

Ammo is as important as the actual weapon.

What the actual fuck. I just can't believe that none of these companies are able to figure out their primer shortage. How difficult is it to make ammo? People can make it at home! Everyone is talking about Biden's gun bill or whatever, not realizing that without ammo (and affordable ammo to actually practice) gun ownership is pretty much useless. If it costs more than a dollar a round, people will just use guns only for hunting, or will be horribly out of practice and not proficient if they have to defend themselves. Ammo is as important as the actual weapon.

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[–] • 2 pts

Last time ammo supply got short the manufacturers made more and the price went down. They don't want to repeat that "mistake." The problem is a lack of competition in the ammunition market.

There's a simple test for any market for whether it's competitive or not. Can the largest manufacturer stop producing without affecting the price? If the answer is "no," then the market isn't competitive. In a healthy free market there are enough producers of any given commodity that one producer doesn't have the power to affect prices.

[–] • 1 pt

That's a good test.

[–] • 2 pts

If you're an ammo producer and people have no choice but to buy your ammo, why wouldn't you want the current situation to continue? You can run your existing factory at full bore and make record profits. If you take all that extra money and invest in more factories you're just going to drive down the price and your margin per unit will decrease.

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Well, if there's potential for competition then driving prices up (or even destabilising them) will incentivise competition. Whether in the form of other manufacturing companies springing up, or reloading becoming more popular.