{"id":1693,"date":"2014-05-18T00:40:00","date_gmt":"2014-05-18T00:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/2014\/05\/18\/how-cci-makes-22-lr-cartridges\/"},"modified":"2019-08-16T18:24:05","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T18:24:05","slug":"how-cci-makes-22-lr-cartridges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=1693","title":{"rendered":"How CCI Makes .22 LR Cartridges"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:11873,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/corporate.walmart.com\\\/our-story\\\/our-business\\\/locations\\\/#\\\/united-states&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/corporate.walmart.com\\\/our-story\\\/our-business\\\/locations\\\/&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>\nGiven that few of us can find .22LR ammo in the market due to (hoarding, greater demand, an expanded market, or all of the above), I thought it might be interesting to at least see how the ammo is constructed. &nbsp;Jim Scoutten of Shooting USA visited the CCI ammunition plant in Lewiston, Idaho.<\/p>\n<p>Turns out that it is a fairly complicated process from making the brass to filling the shells with priming compound to seating the bullets. &nbsp;While the plant makes 4 million rounds a day, that isn&#8217;t a lot when you think about it. Doing the math, that is 40,000 100-round boxes or 2,000 cases per day. &nbsp;Another way of looking at it is that this is approximately one case <a href=\"http:\/\/corporate.walmart.com\/our-story\/our-business\/locations\/#\/united-states\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">per Walmart in the United States<\/a> daily.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/t5qMsmucXhI\" width=\"560\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Given that few of us can find .22LR ammo in the market due to (hoarding, greater demand, an expanded&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1383,2614,2615,2616],"class_list":["post-1693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-22-lr","tag-ammo-manufacturing","tag-ammo-shortage","tag-cci"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1693"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1693\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9871,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1693\/revisions\/9871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}