{"id":2213,"date":"2013-06-18T16:03:00","date_gmt":"2013-06-18T16:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/2013\/06\/18\/ammo-choke-poin\/"},"modified":"2019-08-16T18:22:16","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T18:22:16","slug":"ammo-choke-poin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=2213","title":{"rendered":"Ammo Choke-Point"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:13338,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.defense-training.com&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/defense-training.com\\\/&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.defense-training.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><br \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.defense-training.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Trainer John Farnam of Defense Training International <\/a>puts out an occasional newsletter with his quips, quotes, and observations.&nbsp; In a post sent out on Sunday, he described a conversation with the CEO of a major ammunition manufacturer.<\/p>\n<p>It appears the choke-point for ammo production is not powder or primers but rather brass.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"tr_bq\"><p>\n<i>I spent last Friday with the CEO of a major domestic ammunition<br \/>\nmanufacturer.  While there, I was able to get a small quantity of  high-performance<br \/>\n40S&amp;W and 45ACP ammunition, as well as some 9mm  hardball.  He also had some<br \/>\n40S&amp;W practice ammunition and several boxes  of high-performance 308.<\/p>\n<p>No high-performance 9mm, and no 223\/5.56&#215;45 of any kind.  I would  surely<br \/>\nhave acquired some had it been there!<\/p>\n<p>He indicated his current in-hand orders will consume his entire<br \/>\nmanufacturing capacity for at least the next twenty-four months, and that is  assuming<br \/>\nno major change in world events.<\/p>\n<p>He also indicted <b>the real choke-point is brass casings.  Propellent<br \/>\npowder, bullets, even primers are currently in at least adequate supply.<br \/>\nConversely, brass is chronically hard to get, and generalized shortages are<br \/>\nholding-up production, industry-wide.<\/b><\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trainer John Farnam of Defense Training International puts out an occasional newsletter with his quips, quotes, and observations.&nbsp; In&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":[3020,1013],"class_list":["post-2213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-ammunition-shortage","tag-john-farnam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2213","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=2213"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9234,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2213\/revisions\/9234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}