Biden just banned importation of Russian ammo

bullsi1911

https://www.state.gov/fact-sheet-united-states-imposes-additional-costs-on-russia-for-the-poisoning-of-aleksey-navalny/

There goes the supply of 7.62x39

Justsomedude

It dawned on me yesterday: as much of a train wreck as he and his administration are, there's no way this isn't by design. It's almost like they're trying to do the absolute worst job that they can. What an idiot.

buckaroo

Wow !    And so it begins.   And some think the ammo shortage and the high prices are all due to the 'plandemic',  I've been saying to myself for a few years now, the way they'll get to us is by disturbing the ammo chain.

Well, this just put a lot of people out of the gun hobby and all by design.

rberglof

Well at least the Taliban will not have to worry about running low on ammo now!

PFD

Well I suppose that will include primers from Tula and others.

Thanks Biden voters.

Some_Mook

rberglof said:

Well at least the Taliban will not have to worry about running low on ammo now!

From most of the pictures I've seen lately, the Taliban are sporting 5.56 x 45 now anyway.  With ACOG included.

Justsomedude

Some_Mook said:

rberglof said:

Well at least the Taliban will not have to worry about running low on ammo now!

From most of the pictures I've seen lately, the Taliban are sporting 5.56 x 45 now anyway.  With ACOG included.

Wonder where they got those...

Some_Mook

Justsomedude said:

Some_Mook said:

rberglof said:

Well at least the Taliban will not have to worry about running low on ammo now!

From most of the pictures I've seen lately, the Taliban are sporting 5.56 x 45 now anyway.  With ACOG included.

Wonder where they got those...

I'd imagine they paid much less for them than the US Taxpayers did.  Got some better roads tossed in as an added bonus.  Doesn't take near as long to go from A to B in Afghanistan as it used to a few decades ago.

Uncle Fester

Justsomedude said:

Some_Mook said:

rberglof said:

Well at least the Taliban will not have to worry about running low on ammo now!

From most of the pictures I've seen lately, the Taliban are sporting 5.56 x 45 now anyway.  With ACOG included.

Wonder where they got those...

They came with the Mine Resistant Vehicles

Wambli Ska

Gotta make sure his buddies in the new Taliban Islamic Republic are well supplied by the Russians.

breamfisher

Look on the bright side: ANTIFA is going to have a harder time getting ammo for their SKSes, AKs, and Mosins....

Zee

breamfisher said:

Look on the bright side: ANTIFA is going to have a harder time getting ammo for their SKSes, AKs, and Mosins....

Diver43

Guess that is why he hasn't had time to rescue Americans stranded in Afghanistan. 

CHIRO1989

Golden opportunity to make some $ and endear yourself to AK fans

Uncle Fester

On a serious note, that is millions of rounds of ammo per year that is going away.  Beyond AK and Mosin ammo, the Russians keep ammo prices down in a number of calibers.

bullsi1911

breamfisher said:

Look on the bright side: ANTIFA is going to have a harder time getting ammo for their SKSes, AKs, and Mosins....

But… so am I!

nit too mention feeding the Makatov and the CZ-82. 

Wambli Ska

You know what sucks?

When I bought the estate last year I passed on about 5,000+ rounds of commercial 7.62x39.

That’ll teach me…

breamfisher

bullsi1911 said:

breamfisher said:

Look on the bright side: ANTIFA is going to have a harder time getting ammo for their SKSes, AKs, and Mosins....

But… so am I!

nit too mention feeding the Makatov and the CZ-82. 


Reloading...

bellcat

And…..almost all the Russian 9mm on Ammoseek is gone…..what a butthead. Excuse me….Joe is nothing but a brainless puppet for the socialists trying to control our country. 

earlyagain

I'd venture a guess that for once virtually everyone reading this would agree that Donald Trump would never have done this.

Just a guess.
:-) 

Bigslug

Personal interest aside, if we're going to sanction the Russkies - and yeah, they do a lot of stuff that probably justifies sanctioning - I can't think of any areas in which we're sending their country more money than with sales of Wolf/Tula ammo.

What makes my eyes goggle is that the U.S. government responds with language stating that this is akin to the use of chemical weapons and WMD's, and uses this as grounds for restricting firearm and ammo importations.  WMD's?  Really?

Dear Russia, next time you want to rub out your internal dissidents, car and plane crashes, tragic drowning incidents, accidental overdoses, unfortunate combinations of prescription medications, victim of violent street crime, suicides, and just disappearing are all perfectly plausible covers, and the standards of quality the KGB used to be known for.  Better for your economy, and ours.  (Eyeroll)

CHIRO1989

I wonder how much ammo the DoD left in Afganistan, THAT'S Ok to do.

Diver43

CHIRO1989 said:

I wonder how much ammo the DoD left in Afganistan, THAT'S Ok to do.

We didn't just leave it.  We gave it to our allies, whom we promised to train and support.  They promptly said, I dont care who is in charge of the country.  They did the kiss on the cheek and laid down their arms and went back to herding goats and making satellite dishes from garbage can covers 
The Taliban took everything, took over the country and is killing all those that still oppose them.
See, we didnt just leave it 😁

Varmintmist

Bigslug said:

Personal interest aside, if we're going to sanction the Russkies - and yeah, they do a lot of stuff that probably justifies sanctioning - I can't think of any areas in which we're sending their country more money than with sales of Wolf/Tula ammo.

What makes my eyes goggle is that the U.S. government responds with language stating that this is akin to the use of chemical weapons and WMD's, and uses this as grounds for restricting firearm and ammo importations.  WMD's?  Really?

Dear Russia, next time you want to rub out your internal dissidents, car and plane crashes, tragic drowning incidents, accidental overdoses, unfortunate combinations of prescription medications, victim of violent street crime, suicides, and just disappearing are all perfectly plausible covers, and the standards of quality the KGB used to be known for.  Better for your economy, and ours.  (Eyeroll)

Maybe on a pipeline?? Ammo sales are a fart in a windstorm compared to the funding we provided by bailing on every proven energy reserve and not selling our stuff to Germany. Biden provided Putin a steady stream of locking in income from Europe. Now that he has done away with any faith that our allies had for us, he even managed to make the Canadians angry and not just the geese, and Russia is sitting pretty with arms wide open to collect their cash.

There are other markets, and other places of production than the US.

bullsi1911

I just saw 9mmMakarov going for $.58 per bang.  For FMJ.

My head hurts now.