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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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And for the OP saying ammo is sooo easy to make people even makenit at home

With the supplies I could setup fully automated ammo production in my own workshop in a couple of weeks.

C or python, image recognition, a few cheap microcomputers, digital scale, servos, respective tools, and a lathe for making parts among other things.

It'd be harder than that, but easier than you might assume.

Doesn't prove anything of course. But you gotta ask, how high is the demand that others aren't selling into the market?

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With the supplies I could

That's exactly what he's referring to. It's like someone saying you can't fly and you're like "oh yeah? Well if I had wings I totally could".

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Well at least I didn't make a low effort shit-tier post.

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You have metal presses and draws in your garage? Even making the casing is pretty involved: https://www.petersoncartridge.com/technical-information/drawing-brass/

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You have metal presses and draws in your garage?

Casings and other are part of the supplies anyone would need, distinct from assembly of a round. Not that I have those things.

But I don't see why those machines couldn't be built.

Theres nothing here that a competent metallurgist, machinist, electronics engineer, and mechanical engineer couldn't design and build on our own if any of us were so inclined.

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I think that's what folks arent grasping. This isnt an assembly shortage. If it was, everyone would be reloading like mad and prices would be relatively "normal" . it's a shortage of component parts. You see this issue in primer availability being nil.

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Brass, lead, steel, powder.

All of these are components needed to produce ammo.

Asinine to think "I could produce it in my garage." Without preformed primers, powder, & brass, you and making bumb-kiss.

It is also a steep learning curve to re-load, and the initial up front costs can easily run into the thousands.

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Blasting caps are dangerous as fuck to produce. This is where the supply shortage is.

If you think you can quickly setup and safely make those in your garage, you're fooling yourself brother.

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Blasting caps are dangerous as fuck to produce.

Thats because they have humans handling part of the process instead of fully automating the most dangerous parts.

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If you manufacture blasting caps in your garage... In a residential area... Just having the materials to do so in large quantities, you're the definition of an asshole.