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    Nitrocellulose

    The other night I was watching a You Tube video by a 2A guy
    He was talking China has stopped exporting or is planning on stopping exporting Nitrocellulose to the USA

    He said that the powder makers in the USA get about 60% of their Nitrocellulose from China
    Nitrocellulose is a BIG ingredient in gun powder
    So if they do or are stopping
    It will make gun powder prices go up a BUNCH IMO
    Also he was saying ammo supplies will disappear and powder prices will go up a HUGE Amount

    Goggle it yourself
    As LOL Everything on the Internet is True ...... Right ??

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    The best lies have a kernel of truth. Doing a fair bit of research turns up no credible sources for a claim that China is planning or even considering banning export of Nitrocellulose to the U.S. My research does indicate that Chinese exports of nitrocellulose to the U.S. (and all markets) may see a significant price increase and global supplies of nitrocellulose will be strained. China had a nitrocellulose factory fire and China has increased is exports of nitrocellulose to Russia. Turkey has also increased its exports of nitrocellulose to Russia. The demand for nitrocellulose and cotton fiber used to make nitrocellulose has increased not only because of the current conflicts but also because nitrocellulose is used in very many products that are in constant demand, cosmetics, paints, inks, and other finishes as well as some pharmacological products.

    If the story was true and China was going to stop exporting nitrocellulose or cotton fiber to the U.S. many industries would be disrupted not just the ammo markets.
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    dtknowles, thanks for the info!
    Winchester owns all of the sources needed to make ammunition I have been told.
    I can’t believe that the government allowed the last lead refinery to be shut down. Lead production is a matter of national security!

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    I don't believe that Winchester owns all the sources needed to make their ammunition. Winchester is owned by Olin and the only smokeless powder plants in the U.S. are in St. Marks, FL, owned by General Dynamics and Radford Arsenal in VA, owned by the Army and run by BAE Systems. Winchester Ball Powders are made in St. Marks. Alliant gets some of its powder from Radford to load ammo for Remington, CCI, Speer and Federal under the umbrella of the Kinetic Group. Hodgden gets its smokeless powders from all over but does not make them. Pyrodex and Tripple Seven I think are made in the U.S.

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    Quote Originally Posted by deltaenterprizes View Post
    dtknowles, thanks for the info!
    Winchester owns all of the sources needed to make ammunition I have been told.
    I can’t believe that the government allowed the last lead refinery to be shut down. Lead production is a matter of national security!
    Compared to other critical materials like Rare Earth minerals, and metals like Lithium, Cobalt, Nickel and Titanium, lead is not that big a national security need and we are very dependent on imports for those minerals. About a third of the lead used in the U.S. each year is imported. 90% of that is either imported batteries or used to make batteries. Two thirds of the U.S. needs for lead are filled by recycling scrap.

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    Quote Originally Posted by dtknowles View Post
    Compared to other critical materials like Rare Earth minerals, and metals like Lithium, Cobalt, Nickel and Titanium, lead is not that big a national security need and we are very dependent on imports for those minerals. About a third of the lead used in the U.S. each year is imported. 90% of that is either imported batteries or used to make batteries. Two thirds of the U.S. needs for lead are filled by recycling scrap.

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    In Northern and NorthWest Montana we have had several Rare Earth Mines and other "Rare Mineral" mines that have shuttered because of the Biden/Harris administration over the last 2 years. A couple are hoping to reopen if Trump comes back to office.

    As a Nation we used to have a review of "Critical Materials and Products" from WW-II on. If we did not have sufficient in storage or being produced; then the Government would intercede and pay far above the "International Market Rate" to keep the production going so the USofA was not subject to other countries using Strategic Materials/Products as a lever against the USofA. Unfortunately; since Jimmy Carter the YARVARD MBA's (Yale, Harvard, et.al.) have tamped that down in the effort to have a "Just in Time Economy".
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    Quote Originally Posted by deltaenterprizes View Post
    dtknowles, thanks for the info!
    Winchester owns all of the sources needed to make ammunition I have been told.
    I can’t believe that the government allowed the last lead refinery to be shut down. Lead production is a matter of national security!
    Olin doesn’t own the farms, but there are thousands of tons of cotton grown in South Alabama and Georgia, all within 100 miles of St. Marks
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