I do know what capital expenditures are and I understand the costs involved but by the same token billions have been invested in the last year to produce everything from ventilators to PPEs and now sub zero freezers to fight something that we will essentially be done with in the "relatively" near future as well. The washing machine company now making ventilators might possibly be due to the Defense Production Act but it will still be a huge financial windfall for the company.
Where is the government honey in ammunition other than fixed contracts? Also some of those companies producing the covid shit just about have a gun to their head via the gov, that's
clown world compared to ammo manufacturing, fake news/doesn't count. Dishwasher companies making ventilators, that might as well be planet zebulon, not earth.
I would think that the premise of striking while the iron is hot would apply to any products in great demand if even for the short term.
Another thing to put out there... up until about December of 2019 or so, the industry was in a two year wide sales drought and had a GLUT of
ammo. Like tons of ammo, sitting around. Driving prices down. It's not easy to motivate people to do the thing which caused them to get their
ass kicked the last time, even if they need it "in that window" NOW, etc. Also everyone thought this covid shit was a one tripper, at first, and it turned into a
much bigger shit show, same with the sudden appearance of the Soros funded BLM riots. Not to mention most thought there was no way that Biden could win. Thus making
an idea of spending millions on expansion of an ammo plants seem like a really dumb idea.
There was no real way to forecast these events (eg, like in March) and make a guess at capacity required. Not to mention a bunch of ammo plants were doing their own covid pant shitter
stuff too back then and went into shutdown mode, either full or partial for (insert some period of time here) So you have that compounding things, too. Like for example, Remington's lonoke plant got bought by Vista, but it was operating at maybe 10% THIS WHOLE TIME until just a few weeks ago. (this is mostly because Remington was bleeding cash rectally and downscaling ops until the sale made sense) It's not going to be trivial to spin that thing back up into a 3 shift flawless machine. If it wasn't for the new-er guys that got big since Obamascares, like S&B and Fiocchi, we'd be very dead in the water.
"This" ammo shortage may be over soon but it's a scenario that keeps repeating itself. I will admit I'd never given much thought to actual numbers like if all new gun owners bought just a couple boxes of 9mm how many rounds that might be but it certainly tells me we shoot a lot.
These new people probably don't shoot a lot, but think about it... even if they only shoot a few boxes monthly, thats a lot of demand. The numbers get retarded, really
fast.