U.S. Ammo = U.S. Cars?

[jimbo1747]

Is it me or does anyone see a correlation between U.S. ammo manufacturers today and the U.S. auto manufacturers in the 1970's? I mean, it appears (to me anyways) that foreign manufacturers like Wolf, Prvi Partisan, PMC, etc. are making some major in-roads in the U.S. ammo market. Other than being a bit less accurate, their ammo is cheaper, as reliable, and more readily available? When this demand for ammo eventually does down, I think the U.S. ammo manufacturers are going find that they have lost a big percentage of their marketshare.

[God Bless The Mauser]

When it comes to high volume shooting people want the cheapest stuff they can find and that's generally foreign made. It's like people that only care that a car gets them from point A to point B buy cheap foreign cars. The best quality ammo is usually US made.
I'm guilty of having mostly foreign ammo and guns. Lately I've been trying to buy US made stuff whenever I can and I plan on adding more US guns to my collection like the Remington 700 I plan to get soon I'm going to keep 100% US made stuff on it. It's funny, I HATE communism but most of my guns are from communist countries.

[bombadillo]

I have almost all US made ammo and proud of it. I don't shoot anything but brass through my AR's and pistols. I did buy some cheap Czech ammo for my XD and am disappointed in it. I continue to buy WWB now for it. The only gun I will buy Russian ammo for is my SKS but hey, thats russian too so it fits.

[bohoki]

i don't think so there has always been imports and cost is always the driving factor

besides the big ammo producers make reloading components so its not a big issue to them

although the non reloadable status of most imported ammo is reminiscent of the requirement to use metric tools and hard to get replacement parts on the early import cars

s&b has been around like forever pmc has been around as long as i can remember there does seem to be a slighly greater number of foreign brands

but makers have come and gone before

surplus is becoming more scarce so its good


aguila seems cool as they are made in mexico so they can be trucked here instead of the 'slowboat" we need a canadian ammo maker to make some good cheap stuff too

[Bill92869]

IMHO the ammo companies much like the automotive companies here in the USA have been hamstrung by our government. The EPA requirements drive up costs, the liability exposure from frivolous lawsuits drive up costs and taxation at all levels from city, county,state and federal entities all drive up the costs to local manufacturers versus the imports. And much like it was for the automotive industry for years, I'd be willing to bet that virtually no other country allows the importation of US made ammo, or at the very least not without a heavy tariff and other limitations.
The American worker can compete with workers of any other country WHEN DONE SO ON A LEVEL PLAYING FIELD.

[Rob454]

Ill buy cheap ammo for shooting at the range at a paper target ( I just simply do not see the reason to spend money on expensive ammo for just shooting.) I'm not a competitive long range shooter so i don't need perfect ammo for a day at the range. When I go hunting and sight my hunting rifle in I buy and use US made ammo. its better