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US Military's Sole Small Arms Ammo Plant Straining to Keep Up
11 January 2004
Knight Ridder / Tribune (USA)
FORT BELVOIR, Virginia — The U.S. military's only plant making small-arms ammunition is running at near capacity, 4 million rounds a day, and the United States still is forced to look overseas and to the recreational industry for ammunition for troops in Afghanistan and Iraq and those training to deploy there soon.
Gen. Paul Kern, commander of the Army Materiel Command, said Friday that giving those units priority ensured they had enough small-arms ammunition.... (GunPolicy.org)