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Don't believe everything you read

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I got this from a friend today. Like many internet rumors it's getting forwarded everywhere.

Please read to the end.
I can't find the origin of this note about ammunition producers and costs, but I sure know that ammo prices have jumped, if you can find any of the more popular calibers. And I have to admit, it would be very clever to attack gun ownership by making ammo super pricey for consumers, while keeping it cheap for the government.

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Don’t know if this is true but I see the shelves are bare when I go looking for ammo. Personally I will not shoot anything unless I can buy it up front, I am sitting on everything I have in case this is true and ammo and components dry up.

You may not know this but George Soros owns most of the ammunition
manufacturing companies and many arms manufacturers as well. He's selling ONLY to the government right now, per WH & DHS orders. My son works for ATK, who owns just about all the rest of the ammunition companies that Soros doesn't own. He tells me that ATK has been ordered by the federal government to curtail sales of ammunition, primers and powder to the retail market. What you see currently on the shelves is old stock and what's left in the warehouses since the CT shootings and new stock will NOT be appearing anytime soon. ATK and Soros' companies have more than enough government contracts to keep them going for years to come. Like Soros' companies, ATK is a huge defense contractor and they've been told to sell ONLY to the DOD, TSA, FBI, DHS and local/federal law enforcement agencies. This is VERY scary and VERY ominous for what's coming down the pike in the future.

My son has seen the proposed pricing schedule for Federal, CCI, Hornady, Remington, Winchester and several other ammunition manufacturer's lines of ammunition, components, reloading equipment (ATK owns Outers, RCBS, Hoppe and a host of others) and he's flabbergasted! As an example, when the sales of .22 LR bulk ammo resumes, the pricing will be over $50.00 for a 535-round Value Pak! That's nearly a dime-a-shot!! They're also going to raise the prices by 300 - 400% on dies, presses, powder measures and the like. He's in management there at ATK in Salt Lake City and they're NOT happy with it at all! They firmly believe this will basically shut-down the civilian market while leaving the government as the only purchaser of their products. He saw the government pricing for the centerfire ammunition they've been stockpiling and their prices have actually dropped from a year ago so the feds are buying this stuff REAL cheap while we can't even get our hands on it at all!

Something I've always said since Obummer came onto the scene in 2008 is that, even if they can't actually ban the weapons themselves, the government will make it nearly impossible for us civilians to feed them with ammo, reloading components and the like. The WH doesn't HAVE to actually ban the guns, as Biden said in one of his many faux pas, foot-in-the-mouth, Freudian slip speeches he's famous for making. " All we have to do is to make it too expensive to use them and the public will eventually give them back to us if we offer an attractive price for these weapons". What's an "attractive price" - a $10.00 Walmart gift card for a $3,000.00 custom hunting rifle? Those were his EXACT words in one of the speeches he gave to the freshman congressmen last week! Remember, Biden was one of the architects of the Clinton gun ban of years ago. I think he's as dangerous to the Second Amendment as Obozo is, maybe more so, because he's so stupid and doesn't know the muzzle of a gun from the butt...

Feel free to pass this on so gun owners will be aware of what we're up against. I doubt the NRA can do anything about it, IMHO. La Pierre can get on all the talk shows he's invited to and cry the blues about the assault weapons laws that are forthcoming from the WH but the real crux of the matter will be whether or not we'll ever be able to purchase ammunition (at all) or, if we can, what we'll be paying for it. As an aside, here, I deal a LOT with Midsouth Shooters Supply for my reloading components. Two weeks ago I ordered 500 cases each of .45 Casull, .44 Magnum, .357 Magnum and 9mm Parabellum. I was told everything I had ordered was out-of-stock and no in-stock delivery date was being forecast. They wouldn't even accept a backorder for this stuff! Think the government isn't manipulating it? Think again, my friend...
I googled for this and found it was on many major gun forums. It's apparently having quite an impact.

The problem is, it's not true. George Soros doesn't own any gun or ammo manufacturing companies and isn't making secret deals with the government to prevent ammo sales to civilians. No less than the NRA-ILA has debunked this rumor. Yet it persists.
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I hear he is purchasing Krispy Kreme and will only sell product to LEOs.
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jmra wrote:I hear he is purchasing Krispy Kreme and will only sell product to LEOs.
Krisp Kreme Left houston and I am still not happy about it.

Also what' sto stop a bunch of sloobs like us from starting our own profession Ammo company?
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psijac wrote:
jmra wrote:I hear he is purchasing Krispy Kreme and will only sell product to LEOs.
Krisp Kreme Left houston and I am still not happy about it.

Also what' sto stop a bunch of sloobs like us from starting our own profession Ammo company?

umm ATF licensing requirements, money, supplies to make the ammo, factory floor space, equipment to assemble the ammo. yea umm taint gonna happen
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