Thread: Rimfire Ammo Shortage...

Originally Posted by pixelfixed

Tell ya what,10 yrs ago a buddy and i were headed back south from a watch show in Tacoma wash. we stopped in ashland OR. for the night,walked accross the street had a few pops and some dinner.
Came back to a metal door that was ripped off our room,I lost maybe 6K worth of watches and cash,My pard lost 350K worth of watches and jewelry.
Nothing was insured,Leos came in, they called the FBI,Long story short.
A year later I get a knock on my door,two FBI agents,Pls come in, what can I do for you sirs.was a followup on the robbery,No fraud involved as there was no insurance claims,They had every email I had sent and recieved covering the entire preceding year.You are being watched.
You put Key words (trigger words) in emails no matter how mundain,somebody may just aim in on it. once this was the land of the free,No longer the case

What are you doing walking around with so much $$ in watches? And if you were a vendor - then wouldn't you be insured even outside of your brick-and-mortar?

Originally Posted by earcutter

What are you doing walking around with so much $$ in watches? And if you were a vendor - then wouldn't you be insured even outside of your brick-and-mortar?

You cannot insure moving from to show,I was not that effected,my partner was,he is a pearl dealer and had some 50K strands,that was the bulk of the loss,maybe 100K in watches,do's not take many platinum pateks to get to 100K.

Originally Posted by pixelfixed

You cannot insure moving from to show,I was not that effected,my partner was,he is a pearl dealer and had some 50K strands,that was the bulk of the loss,maybe 100K in watches,do's not take many platinum pateks to get to 100K.

Oh ok. I thought you could get insured... actually I know you can. That said, it's prohibitive. So you used to sell jewelry? That's cool. I always thought that would be fun.

Originally Posted by earcutter

Oh ok. I thought you could get insured... actually I know you can. That said, it's prohibitive. So you used to sell jewelry? That's cool. I always thought that would be fun.

was fun on the small scale i was doing,than i got involved with the heavy hitters,that was not fun

Originally Posted by pixelfixed

was fun on the small scale i was doing,than i got involved with the heavy hitters,that was not fun

You have had an interesting life full of fantastic careers Pixel!! I recall on this thread, at around say post 26 you talking on all the heart surgeries you have done. < http://straightrazorpalace.com/conve...ml#post1069294 >

I can only dream of having as full a life... only dream.

Originally Posted by Magpie

Lets not ignore an obvious (to me anyways) possibility, that the manufacturers are also "hoarding" ammo, to create the very shortage that is now upon us. Law of supply and demand! You want it, it doesn't exist, suddenly your paying way more than before. And I will be a doughnut with a center hole the size of a .22 that when the ammo shortage is over, the prices dont come down any where near as much as they went up!

The problem is that is this were true, they'd have billions and billions of rounds sitting somewhere, costing money for storage, with no way to release them to market without crashing the price and losing out on a lot of money. If they wanted to drive up the price, they could simply do that by not working 24/7 already liek glen said.

Remington Expands Ammunition Operations

Originally Posted by Otto

Remington Expands Ammunition Operations

Now that company is going to capture market share. Your point is taken, Bruno, and it makes logical sense from a business perspective. However, if the supply is basically zero across the country and the demand is in the stratosphere, what Remington appears to be doing here also makes sense from a business perspective.

Chris L

It would also make sense if your production equipment is old and will need replacement within the next 5-10 years.
Bring in the new stuff to meet demand now, and when demand slows down the old stuff can be retired.

Originally Posted by HNSB

It would also make sense if your production equipment is old and will need replacement within the next 5-10 years.
Bring in the new stuff to meet demand now, and when demand slows down the old stuff can be retired.

Yup.

The company is currently commissioning a new pharma plant on our site. The decision to build it was taken several years ago or so. They've been building for a couple of years now. When the building and process infrastructure is handed over in one or 2 more years, they still need to do process validation runs. Meanwhile, planning for exactly how and what to make and when to start production were going on while the plant was still being built. As soon as the plant is ready for making whatever, the process needs a number of validation runs and pass approval by various agencies.

7 to 10 years between breaking ground and putting an existing product on the market is not out of the ordinary.
Strategic planning of production capacity is always done with long term planning and decommissioning of existing infrastructure in mind, because there is such a long delay between investment and profit, and the investments are so large.