Hornady Ammunition. Fast. Accurate. Dependable. Unavailable. In the midst of the Great Guns and Ammo Shortage of 2013, Hornady wants its customer to know they’re not supermen (the ammo maker not their customers, who may or may not be from another planet). Hornady’s making as many cartridges as they can, as fast as they can. And they have no clue when the situation will improve. (Today’s gun control rout in the Senate could mark the beginning of the beginning of the end.) Make the jump for Hornady’s rumor patrol talking points memo and a plea to all-too-credulous consumers to skeptical-up and chill out . . .
Grand Island, Neb. –(Ammoland.com)- The current political climate has caused extremely high demand on all shooting industry products, including ours.
Empty retail shelves, long backorders, and exaggerated price increases on online auction sites – all fueled by rumors and conjecture – have amplified concerns about the availability of ammunition and firearms-related items. If the information you hear doesn’t originate from Hornady Manufacturing, don’t believe it.
Here are some of rumors we’ve heard, and questions we’ve received:
Have you stopped production, or has the government forced you to stop?
Not at all.
Did you stop selling bullets so you could only make loaded ammunition?
Absolutely not.
Since we can’t find your product you must be selling it all to the government.
Nope, less than 5% of our sales are to government entities.
Why can’t you make more? Ramp up production? Turn on all the machines?
We’ve been steadily growing our production for a long time, especially the last five years. We’ve added presses, lathes, CNC equipment, people and space. Many popular items are produced 24 hours a day. Several hundred Hornady employees work overtime every week to produce as much as safely possible.
We are producing as much as we can; much more than last year, which was a lot more than the year before, etc. No one wants to ship more during this time than we do.
We appreciate everyone’s understanding and patience. We don’t know when the situation will improve, so please bear with us a little longer. And remember, when it comes to Hornady Manufacturing, if you don’t hear it from us, please don’t believe it.
Great day!
now BHO will start parading around the survivors of the Boston Bombing like a pimp trying for restrictions on reloading equiptment.
The first 9mm I found this year was Hornady, at a FLGS that wasn’t charging ridiculous prices (but they could have).
The fact that we were so close on National Reciprocity is really encouraging. Maybe in the next session!
Tough cookies.
They ought to consider resigning if they are asked to enforce a patently unconstitutional law such as the SAFE Act.
Not doing so put them and their families at risk from “backlash”.
John
But a great day for the 2A
Keep on yackin’, jackass. Go ahead and keep this issue hot all the way to 2014.
Dear POTUS,
A “shameful day for Washington” was when Obama Care passed after deals were struck, promises made, and lies, lies, lies when most people did “not” want it. Today the people defeated you and your fellow Constitution deniers. You were lying again when you said most people supported you. Wrong! Just go away now and leave us gun owners alone. Put all that feel good energy into your golf game and just ride out your term and try not to screw the country any further. I know, wishful thinking, but right now I feel pretty good. Besides, the Boston Marathon bombing gives you another chance to perform for the sheeple and put your phony empathy on display for the world to see. I guess I’ll live through another day of this Orwellian circus here in Boston tomorrow. When you get to the South Church Inter-Faith, Multi-Cultural and Diverse prayer service, don’t let any of your crocodile tears fall on the teleprompter, it will look blurry and might disrupt your rhythm and make you sound like the incompetent dweeb you are. I’m sure some comrade has already written a fine speech for you, complete with the names of the victims and short antidotes about their lives with special pauses so you can get all chocked up. I will watch one of the many tele-screens and I shall be playing the “shot game” (a la Bob Newhart) with my 2nd Amendment supporting friends. Every time you say “I”, “The American People”, or “Brave Heros and/or First Responders,” we’ll take turns throwing back a jigger of Victory Gin. We are going to be hammered within twenty minutes I’m sure.
Thanks for coming here for Hate Week. It’s been so fun having Big Brother on every corner not mention all those shiny new DHS vehicles that must have cost the next few generations a bundle. Too bad it didn’t prevent some geek with a backpack from getting near the finish line. Hey, shit happens right BO? At least no one’s taking about Benghazi this week.
Yours truly,
NWBob in Boston
PS Will the Boston victims get to ride on Air Force One when you lobby for a ban on pressure cookers?
How Screwed up is this?
He [Sen Wicker, Miss.] has a solidly conservative voting record, so much so that he drew notice last week when he voted to allow debate to begin on controversial gun legislation in the Senate. “I cast this vote at the request of the National Rifle Association, of which I am a member,” he said in a statement at the time that added he has a 100 percent voting record in favor of Second Amendment rights.
AT THE REQUEST OF THE NRA.
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Great, but . . . . don’t be surprised at the audit of the last 6 yrs of your financials. just saying. . . . . 🙂
1. Demand “a vote”
2. get said vote
3. realize it’s not the vote you wanted
4. blame the system
5. throw a temper tantrum
A perfectly reasonable response from the President of the United States.
… I can’t believe i managed to say that with a straight face.
Fvcktard.
I’ve bought a tac-pac a couple years ago. Paid $750 for it back then. I have not had a single problem with mine. I let a friend shoot it that has many many 1911’s and also shot competition when he was younger, he ended up getting a 1911 scorpion. That’s the 1911 he shoots now when we go out.
I remember when we did not have all those anti-gun liberals in DC. Once Hubert H. Humphrey was a known liberal of his day; however, he always stated he fully supported the 2A. The “Happy Warrior” had more common sense and patriotism than all the current anti-gun liberals we now have.
Reloading is about to become a b*tch for some people.
Kinda like shootin’ your cousin, huh?