{"id":82428,"date":"2022-06-16T11:27:19","date_gmt":"2022-06-16T16:27:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=82428"},"modified":"2022-06-16T11:39:00","modified_gmt":"2022-06-16T16:39:00","slug":"82428","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=82428","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Double whammy; SloJoe&#8217;s antigun policy and military increases &#8216;going back to cold war era postures&#8217;, look to be cutting into civilian ammo availability<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/breaking-biden-administration-moves-to-cut-off-lake-city-223-5-56-ammo-from-the-commercial-market\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Biden Administration Moves to Cut Off Lake City .223\/5.56 Ammo From the Commercial Market<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Apparently not content with its efforts so far to make gun ownership more difficult and expensive for America\u2019s 100 million firearm owners, a source tells TTAG that the Biden administration is taking steps to reduce the availability of .223\/5.56 ammunition available to the average shooter.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">BREAKING NEWS: The U.S. Military is actively considering shutting down the sale is M855\/SS109 ammo from Lake City to the commercial market. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NSSF?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@NSSF<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NRAILA?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@NRAILA<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/GreenTipAmmo?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#GreenTipAmmo<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/POTUS?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@POTUS<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JoeBiden?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@JoeBiden<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Larry Keane (@lkeane) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lkeane\/status\/1537187687530057729?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 15, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>A person with knowledge of the situation tells us that, more than just \u201cconsidering\u201d the move, Winchester, which operates the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/winchester-takes-over-operation-of-the-armys-lake-city-ammunition-plant\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">US Army\u2019s Lake City ammunition plant<\/a>, has been informed that it may no longer sell M855 and SS109 ammunition produced in excess of the military\u2019s needs on the civilian market.<\/p>\n<p>How would that affect the civilian supply of .223 and 5.56 ammunition? We understand that as much as 30% of the commercial market\u2019s sales volume of .223\/5.56 is produced by Lake City.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Apropos of nothing in\u00a0 particular&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Yes. This backdoor banning of domestic sale of SS109\/M855 not only prevents civilians from training properly\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u2026it also artificially weakens our national defense. By reducing operational quality control and  production capacity.<\/p>\n<p>This tweet seems timely:<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/mcxZd2GVI2\">https:\/\/t.co\/mcxZd2GVI2<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Nathan K. (@USBCGuy) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/USBCGuy\/status\/1537364317103763457?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 16, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Double whammy; SloJoe&#8217;s antigun policy and military increases &#8216;going back to cold war era postures&#8217;, look to be cutting into civilian ammo availability Biden Administration Moves to Cut Off Lake City .223\/5.56 Ammo From the Commercial Market Apparently not content with its efforts so far to make gun ownership more difficult and expensive for America\u2019s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=82428\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,36,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-goobermint","category-gun-schtuff","category-rkba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=82428"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82428\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82435,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82428\/revisions\/82435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=82428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=82428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=82428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}