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How hard is it to produce a primer?
Posted on 2/11/21 at 8:15 pm
Posted on 2/11/21 at 8:15 pm
So there are very few primer manufacturers.
What does this take to produce?
What does this take to produce?
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Posted on 2/11/21 at 8:18 pm to flyAU
Posted on 2/11/21 at 8:27 pm to flyAU
A good reliable consistent non-corrosive primer is not an easy thing to mass produce.
Posted on 2/11/21 at 8:30 pm to DownshiftAndFloorIt
This sounds like a national security threat tbh.
Posted on 2/11/21 at 8:37 pm to flyAU
Lead. Primers are the reason for ammo shortage
Posted on 2/11/21 at 8:52 pm to flyAU
Considering only 4 companies produce them, I’d say it’s pretty damn difficult
Posted on 2/11/21 at 8:57 pm to flyAU
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This sounds like a national security threat tbh.
I’m sure the military has plenty
Posted on 2/11/21 at 10:16 pm to A_bear
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Considering only 4 companies produce them, I’d say it’s pretty damn difficult
I am calling bullshite. Mass manufacturing maybe. Probably isn’t lucrative in the past for smaller manufacturers.
Posted on 2/11/21 at 10:20 pm to flyAU
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Probably isn’t lucrative
I highly doubt it is. Dangerous, regulated to death, difficult to do well, need to be produced by the gazillions to turn any profit.
Posted on 2/11/21 at 10:26 pm to DownshiftAndFloorIt
So we say “gosh darn it’s too hard”? Regulation is “Fine”. I just call bullshite
Our ammo problem is because of primers.
Our ammo problem is because of primers.
Posted on 2/11/21 at 10:37 pm to biglego
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I’m sure the military has plenty
US citizens have more.
A lot more.
Ammunition. Not primers.
Posted on 2/11/21 at 10:38 pm to flyAU
I'm not sure what you're getting at. Primers are a bottleneck, but there is a high barrier to entry in manufacturing them and near zero profit margins for a very cyclical market.
Posted on 2/11/21 at 11:04 pm to DownshiftAndFloorIt
I thought I read a few months ago THAT Sig was going to start producing primers. I guess that hasn't happened.
Posted on 2/11/21 at 11:34 pm to Jack Ruby
Almost every company has a huge backlog of orders.
I'd say every company that makes primers, also makes ammo. Right now, any primers being made, will be incorporated into complete rounds.
Very doubtful that we're going to see much in the line of primers, until the live ammo shortage is resolved.
I'd say every company that makes primers, also makes ammo. Right now, any primers being made, will be incorporated into complete rounds.
Very doubtful that we're going to see much in the line of primers, until the live ammo shortage is resolved.
Posted on 2/12/21 at 6:18 am to flyAU
According to this article I read in Shooting Illustrated yesterday...
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Why can't I get primers?
Only two domestic companies make primers, Vista and Winchester. All their primers are going into their production ammo for retail. Normally, the primer market is fed by companies being able to make more primers than they'd ever need to make loaded ammo. In 2020 and now 2021, that's not been the case, so every primer that rolls off the line is going into a loaded piece of ammunition so the consumers can have something to immediately shoot. It's a tough situation for reloaders, but the priority will always be the commercial shooting market.
Posted on 2/12/21 at 7:42 am to cdaniel76
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Only two domestic companies make primers
seems like the Mexican ammo company Aguila would get in on this.
Posted on 2/12/21 at 8:16 am to TrueTiger
I think I read they are too heavy regulated for international sales, but I've also read that there are millions coming in from Europe via ship that has not made it here yet. So who really knows. You would think Fiocci and S&B would be sending all their primers over here.
Posted on 2/12/21 at 8:27 am to flyAU
I've always thought primers will be the loophole that bans ammo, thus making guns obsolete.
All they have to do is figure out how the primer ingredients are affecting some rare bird on the other side of the world.
All they have to do is figure out how the primer ingredients are affecting some rare bird on the other side of the world.
Posted on 2/12/21 at 8:50 am to Shexter
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I've always thought primers will be the loophole that bans ammo, thus making guns obsolete.
All they have to do is figure out how the primer ingredients are affecting some rare bird on the other side of the world.
A few years back there was some experimentation with caseless ammo that is ignited by electric arc.
Someone might want to dust off that technology.
caseless ammo
Posted on 2/12/21 at 9:04 am to Shexter
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I've always thought primers will be the loophole that bans ammo, thus making guns obsolete.
All they have to do is figure out how the primer ingredients are affecting some rare bird on the other side of the world.
Sounds like infringement
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