Making 22 ammo

[WESchultz]

Interesting

[OnTheFly]

4,000,000 rounds per day.  If they only produce this on the average of three days per week, they would crank out 624,000,000 rounds per year.  This is only one manufacturer.  So how in holy heck do we have a shortage of .22LR?

Fly

[zofoman]

That was interesting...thanks for posting.   

I found the part 2 of 2 video...CCI's Velocitor 40gr. gilded hollow point at 1435 ft/sec gets one's attention.

[00BUCK]

8,001 people a day buy 500 rounds and they can't keep up. If you think about how many people are trying to buy ammo these days that's not a staggering number. First time "panic" gun buyers, probably starting out with low cost .22 rifles and pistols and other buyers just wanting to pad their inventory and that 4 million a day seems like a really small number. That is a really cool video though!

[Gary]

Thanks for posting that!

Sure be nice to have a full pallet of that ammo!

[GreyGeek]

8,001 people a day buy 500 rounds and they can't keep up.

That  represents 1% of the 80M gun owners of America, not all of whom own .22 weapons.  But, if they did, it would mean that it will take any given individual about 100 days to encounter a box of 500 rounds.

[OnTheFly]

That  represents 1% of the 80M gun owners of America, not all of whom own .22 weapons.  But, if they did, it would mean that it will take any given individual about 100 days to encounter a box of 500 rounds.

Though this was only one manufacturer.  I also tried to conservatively estimate that they were only manufacturing this amount three days out of the week.  Maybe they do this part of the week and switch gears to manufacture other calibers the rest of the week.  However, considering the capital outlay for equipment to manufacture a single caliber, I expect that CCI would be wanting a return on their investment five days a week.  Possibly more with the current state of the ammo market.

Fly

[Ghost]

Where are the foreign manufacturers and importers while this .22 shortage goes on?  There doesn't seem to be any foreign made .22 ammo available either.   

[GreyGeek]

Where are the foreign manufacturers and importers while this .22 shortage goes on?  There doesn't seem to be any foreign made .22 ammo available either.

Excellent question.   While looking at the DHS order for 7,000 "Personal Defense Weapons" and ammo, I noticed it included a list of ammo makers, both American and foreign.   IIRC, there were over 100 mfgs on that list.   If each could produce 4M rounds per day I fail to understand how the supply of something as ubiquitous as .22 ammo could be in  short supply.