As the Biden administration lures RINOs into open-ended gun control laws, it is also looking to damage gun ownership and use in every way imaginable. The Biden administration just ordered an ammunition manufacturer to stop selling Americans some 5.56mm rounds. They are the most common rounds used in the AR-15 semi-automatic rifle.
The US military has ordered Winchester, which manages the U.S. Army’s Lake City ammunition plant, to stop selling its excess M855/SS109 (5.56mm) ammo to the public, The Truth About Guns reported citing a source close to the matter.
It produces almost 30% of the commercial market’s sales of 5.56 ammo.
Perhaps there is a legitimate reason for it. But we don’t know of any right now.
Larry Keane is the National Shooting Sports Foundation’s general counsel and senior vice president. He first revealed the administration’s plans in a tweet on Wednesday.
“The U.S. Military is actively considering shutting down the sale is M855/SS109 ammo from Lake City to the commercial market…” Keane tweeted.
“Ammunition in excess of the government’s requirements has long been made available to the private commercial market. Lake City’s output, according to some estimates, accounts for one-third of the 5.56 caliber ammunition available to U.S. consumers,” the NRA stated. “Needless to say, this attack on America’s ammunition supply is just the most recent in a long line of anti-freedom attacks by the Biden Administration.”
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fOUND NEW BUSINESS i am going into….SHHHHH
Come make ammo in Free Florida.
I sit upon a throne of 5.56…
This is a Clear Reason that All Mandate Powers of the Executive Branch must be approved by Congress before taking effect.
Winchester does NOT own the plant, The plant is owned by the Feds. The President has the authority to dictate to the DOD what is to be done with the ammo the plant produces.
The problem is that beginning with Obama the availability of Lead for ammo has been severely restricted. It cannot be imported and the only Lead mine in America was shutdown by the EPA years ago over “air quality” concerns However, those “concerns” did not extend to the Doe Run plant reprocessing secondary Lead into ammo. So all of our lead for ammo comes from recycling — weight balances from tires, exhausted batteries, old plumbing, roofing, tile, fishing tackle, sifting soil around targets at gun ranges, etc…
By his ruling Biden cut the availability of ammo by 30%, until other ammo makers NOT owned by the Feds can pick up the slack.
DONT NEED LEAD
Yeah, just use clay.