This has been unexpected for 10 years, minimum. Thank EPA for banning rare earths mining to save mother earth!
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Could this be the catalyst for WWIII 
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I’ve been following this situation on Ammoland. It’s a serious problem we’ve put ourselves in.
Is it just me, or does reading the news cause all of you guys to feel the compulsive need to buy more ammo, quickly?
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Ukraine, Russia, China, Taiwan, Israel, Iran — I think it is slowly starting already.
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46 more days. 
@Joseph488 Yes. Just received my order today. 
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I feel a little tit for tat coming on. We are in a much better place than they are. Bring it.
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Rare earth metals are very important, stuff has to be made with it and it’s important stuff. I saw a documentary about it years ago but don’t ask me what they are because it crawled out the other ear long ago like a lot of things has been doing as of late, but anyhoo they are stuff that is very hard to find and it’s apparently not in large quantities anywhere… But we can crash their economy worse than they can crash ours, he’ll if not for us no one over there would have a job
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@Joseph488 , not anymore since Trump is getting in unless you’re talking about a shortage of stuff to make it with like brass for caseings or monofilament stuff for primers ya know basic supplies. I’ve preached my entire life to always buy ammo even if you have to buy by the 20 rd. Box because there’s nothing in the 2nd amendment about anyone guaranteeing us any ammo .
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Doubtful. What would the US do? Invade and occupy China (a nation of more than 1 billion people) to mine minerals. Occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan didn’t work out and produce a flow of oil or other precious goods/minerals. Both were just tar babies that consumed beacoups US money and people. China would be the mother of all tar babies by comparison. Let’s hope that the brain trust in DC can resist the saber rattlers who want nothing more than to go to war.
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Everyone says that you must have troops on the ground but that’s just if you’re concerned about killing so called “ innocents “ but don’t that just send our guys home leg and armless or worse ? Hell with the so called innocents, I guess those are the ones that die a more horrible death with a grenade tucked in their diapers from their innocent mothers.? If we go to war again I hope we just bomb and bomb and bomb some more until we run out of them or run out of places to drop them. I don’t wanna sea another mauled American or ones with their ears , nose , lips and whatever burnt off of them , let it happen to our enemy
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