Is it time to move away from Unique?

[TXTad]

i bought 16 pounds of virgin surplus wc844 (loads like H335). I am still working the stuff that I bought probably around 2008.

Oh, you got the new stuff.

[TXTad]

I am not sure anymore what will happen. If recent reporting about the limited sources of nitrocellulose (China and Russia) are correct, we may be in this shortage for the long haul, even possibly the military. Someone may have to build or reopen a plant in this part of the world to fix that, and environmental stuff may be a huge hurdle.

But, it could get fixed. Look at the new companies trying to start up primer production.

With the myopic focus on offshoring everything to keep costs down, the idea of strategically important industries has been completely forgotten. We can and should tool up certain industries again and maintain their presence here. Sadly, anything left from yesteryear has decayed beyond salvage at this point and anything will be a from-scratch endeavor. Even worse, I suspect a lot of people just don't understand that even now, and even if we do start this, attention will wander and things will be left to wither away again.