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by bell-cot 1182 days ago
The U.S. DoD needs to have more in-house capacity to produce weapons, equipment, and ammunition - as it did, very successfully, from ~1780 to ~1980. Outsourcing to a few far-too-consolidated and far-too-greedy defense contractors (and their well-paid-off friends in Congress) is just plain idiotic.
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I just watched this the other day, and it was very eye-opening. They came to the same conclusion.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEe_dJZtF1E

Wow - that's WSJ-branded content. Not the crowd that you'd expect to speak ill of corporate mergers and pricing power.
I thought the same thing
US DoD already makes its own ammo