Ammo Shortage Shows No Sign Of Improving

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"We Got Caught Off Guard": Winchester President Discusses Ammo Shortage And What's To Come

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More than twice as many Americans have guns and do shooting sports than have golf clubs and putt on a green.

You wouldn’t know that if you are the coastal elite. But the president of Winchester Ammunition, Brett Flaugher, who lives and works in Illinois, says these recreational shooters are driving the historic ammo shortage in America.

“I've never taken anyone shooting for the first time who didn't enjoy it,” Flaugher told me in an interview. “I see it every day out there - the increase in recreational shooting. A lot of people were introduced to shooting sports during the pandemic. It started with wanting to go outside, and now it’s sheer numbers from the positive experience.” Winchester, which is owned by the Olin Corporation, has manufacturing plants in Illinois, Missouri and Mississippi.

There's something going on. Ammo shortages have been going on since what, Sandy Hook?

Over and over again, yet nobody wants to open more manufacturing plants.

I think it's starting to loosen up. I've recently gotten ads for fair priced pistol ammo, but I don't need any yet.
.380s for $19 a box, 12 gauge slugs for about a dollar a piece. Not exactly cheap but better than it was.

A gun should not be your primary long term defense weapon. Even if you think you have enough ammo now, when a time comes that you'll need it, you'll soon run out. And, if you have to evacuate your present location, you'll have to transport all that somewhere else, and safely too.

One of my favorite weapons is quite effective at stopping aggressive intruders AND it's not lethal. It's a powerful enough laser to blind anyone, humans and beasts. You can reload those with a portable solar panel. You can attach a variety of different lenses too. And it's good at long distances. Mounted on some powerful binoculars, and with a steady hand, you can blind anything headed in your direction. Once blinded, you can capture and interrogate them, or eat them, depending on what you just blinded.

For crowd control, a flamethrower can be quiet effective. And you can make your own flammable fuel, such as alcohol.

A crossbow is another weapon that's easier to manufacture your own arrows for. A slingshot can be dangerous too. Ammo for that is laying all over the ground.

There's many other possibilities too, but I've not the time or patience to list more tonight.

But know too that if you're using a gun for defense, that will make your enemy more determined to take you out, if only to get at all that ammo.

Think out of the box. Your enemy won't likely expect that.

Don’t have to ban guns just make ammo unavailable