Golden Age of Small Arms Ammunition? ~ The Part of Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill No One Is Talking About

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Definitely won’t hurt the market or, more generally, the supply chain. Good news!

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I “Think” this is a good think But I just wish the Government would stop spending and get the Federal Budget in order.

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I agree in principle with what you are saying but there are two kinds of spending and they need to be HARSHLY differentiated without a blanket approach.

There are good investments like strengthening our border, getting rid of the illegal migration and a better armed and trained military.

These investments promote personal safety, clean elections, and strength at a global scale to prevent unnecessary wars that drain our resources and budgets.

BUT, we need to stop providing Medicaid and welfare to people that have not paid into the system or are capable of working, we need to stop subsidizing states that are economic failures like New York and California, we need to stop all payments into NGO’s that are basically politician’s money laundering schemes.

So stopping spending has to be intelligently selective, NOT a blanket mandate. This is the only way to balance budgets. It’s the equivalent of a household saying ok, no expensive vacation this year but I need more money for commuting to a much better paying job. Up one budget item, down with the other.

Actually, the BIGGEST thing this country has to stop doing is acting like the bachelor uncle with a lot of money that every loser in the family mooches off…

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…and each and every sanctuary jurisdiction.

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Say what you will about the politics in NY and CA, but “economic failures”? Not at all.
Highest GDP per capita:

  1. Washington DC
  2. New York
  3. Massachusets
  4. Washington
  5. California
    Along those lines, I got a kick out of the people drawing maps giving the blue states to Canada, because who needs them anyway. Let’s just say the “red” states would be in deep doo-doo without that blue state money.

Do a real comparison and put their GDP against their ranking in cost of living, local taxes paid by residents and State budget deficits in comparison to Red States. Then you have a factual conversation.

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This! :backhand_index_pointing_up:
Dems actually believe there are no consequences for owing more money than you make.

That kind of genius thinking got the federal government exactly where we’re trying to dig out of right now.

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Please don’t try to pretend you’re not an aspiring comedian. You need to find new material

Lets pick 2 of your examples:

  1. Washington DC - economy driven by high paid swamp dwellers gorging on tax payer trough (crashing now that the game is over)
  2. California - economy driven by the labor of illegal aliens (crashing now the game is over)
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Yep, I love the way their gullible and ignorant fans are still touting how Bill Clinton “balanced the budget”.

First all he did was sign a budget brought to him by Republican controlled Congress. When Billy was elected Dems owned both houses. In the first mid-term elections there was a tidal wave that brought both the House and Senate to Republican majorities and it stayed that way for the next 6 years that sleaze ball was in the White House.

Second this balancing of the budget went like this, in terms even some of the low info voters here can understand…

Daddy Bill’s family is making $50,000 a year in income, BUT was spending well over their means and acquired $250,000 dollars worth of credit card debt. Daddy Bill then gets reprimanded by mom (Congress) and his credit cards are taken away so his spending spree gets slowed down until they have just enough money in their monthly budget to make the minimum payments on their credit cards AND maybe a little extra money left over at the end of the month (pennies). Daddy Bill then calls the press and calls this a “balanced budget with a SURPLUS!!!”. And his idiot fans applaud and keep that headline in their heads forever.

I just heard a “reporter” that wasn’t even alive back then quote to the new admin that the last time we had a balanced budget and a surplus was under a Democrat President, so that BS lie is still alive and well.

Democrat Math… That’s why we’re so far down in rankings for education in this country.

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Yeah, sure. Apple, Alphabet (Google), Chevron, Meta (Facebook), NVIDIA, Wells Fargo, Tesla, Broadcom, Cisco Systems, Intel, HP, Qualcomm, Uber, Salesforce, Gilead, Amgen. Dope.

I dunno, I spent a lot of time (2 one year turn arounds) on The Chevron El Segundo Refinery in my career as a construction manager, looked to me like they’re pretty good at complying with law.

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Yep - Name calling - the tool of the ignorant

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Are all leaving, Glad you quoted yourself, noted below:

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AND all those companies exploit millions of illegals for cheap labor in their HQ in menial jobs and low paying positions AND all around the world in manufacturing facilities that operate like concentration camps :+1::+1::+1:

Basically the Democrat way :bottle_with_popping_cork::clinking_glasses:

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Dating all the way back to 1863 with Proclamation 95. Not much has changed.

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They have always been the party of racial minority subjugation….

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As much as I want to be as optimistic as this article, I see it as ramping up production for the new rounds our military is switching over to. That usually means traditional rounds get squeezed out and prices go up. During the recent ammo shortages, production of 12g switched over to buckshot & slugs for self defense. We had two years without target loads anywhere to be found (e.g. #7.5 - #8) and it was $14/box when it finally became available.

The new military rifle round will use a lot of mfg capacity, which decreases capacity for 5.56. But the military still needs plenty of 5.56 during this transition, so they get the bulk of the more limited production and little remains for the rest of us.

The last shortage was blamed on HUGE demand with a fixed mfg capacity, and, “we’re not going to build more capacity because we expect demand to return to ‘normal’ soon and then we’ll have too much capacity”. They just don’t seem too interested in increasing capacity, regardless of demand. …unless that demand is specifically for the military. Hopefully I’m wrong. But I now keep expecting the ammo mfg industry to keep finding new ways to hose us on supply.

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And now you realize why I reload. As long as I have components in stock, I care NOT what manufacturers do…

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