I Can't Look

Did I tell you our government was driving the price of Eastern-bloc ammunition up, by buying up surplus and sending it overseas for our allies to use? Surely I did. I thought I did.

Well, it's true. If you shoot 7.62xanything, you are competing with Uncle Sam when you buy. The people we are training to stay free are using a lot of Eastern-bloc weapons, and we have been scrounging bullets for them.

Here is horrible news. OUR GOVERNMENT IS DESTROYING THE FRIGGING AMMUNITION! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! What's the point of buying it if you're just going to get rid of it? I'll take it, you idiots!

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Since then, the company has provided ammunition that is more than 40 years old and in decomposing packaging, according to an examination of the munitions by The New York Times and interviews with American and Afghan officials. Much of the ammunition comes from the aging stockpiles of the old Communist bloc, including stockpiles that the State Department and NATO have determined to be unreliable and obsolete, and have spent millions of dollars to have destroyed.

Surely they're not destroying the stuff milsurp shooters like. Surely they're just getting rid of Chinese crap that shoots backwards.

I'm going to kiss every one of my precious 7.62mmx54R 7N1 cartridges before I go to bed. After that I may order another crate.

In other news, Federal and CCI are about to jack their prices 5%.

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I think this is where I first heard about our government sucking up our sweet, sweet, corrosive plinking ammo.