Only rarely do the inventors get credit, let alone paid. You do business with the US government at your peril they’re crooks and thieves, with no regard whatsoever for what you might have spent developing your idea. There were things like Army officers taking Gregory backpacks off to Eagle and saying “Hey, we want this, but in OD green…”, and then the Ranger Regiment taking the Tactical Tailor MAV concept and shopping it out to various other manufacturers, one of whom contacted Logan Coffey to let him know that they were shopping his gear around to copy, without even bothering to remove the Tactical Tailor labels. Most of procurement in the US military is crooked as hell you really do not want to follow the details of how they screwed over an awful lot of innovators in the nylon tactical gear market. Not too long after, Natick was having to pay royalty fees to CamelBak for use of their idea, in order to include drinking bladders with the MOLLE system. This was about five-six years before I saw my first commercial CamelBak product on the market for bicyclists… The Natick geniuses rejected it on the spot, said it was entirely unnecessary and unworkable. One of our medics had rigged up a drinking bladder out of a wine-box bladder and some of the IV stuff he was issued, which he submitted. The powers-that-be in the Army are like that… Natick labs once came out to my unit at Fort Lewis, soliciting ideas. I’m not fully familiar with the process by which they made the M2A1 type-standardized, but my cynical nature and experience with the procurement system tells me that they rejected all the existing variations on a theme of conversion kit, developed their own proprietary version, and there are reasons we’re now seeing the system having issues like the ones in the notice you link to. Hell, I even made a submission to the Army Suggestion Program about the issue, and the reply I got was something to the effect that the M2 was a “legacy system”, and that no further developmental money would be expended on it, as it was scheduled to be replaced.Īs usual, said replacement never happened. FN had one, Manroy in the UK had one, SACO-Maremont had one, and none of them got the slightest bit of attention from the authorities in the US Army. There have been multiple versions of a fixed-headspace M2, dating back to the 1960s and even earlier. This is a rough generalization, but from people I’ve talked to – active competitors, casual gun owners, first timers, people in the gun industry, cops, etc., this seems to be what I’m hearing.
There have been millions of new, first-time gun owners this year, and while they’re probably not regular shooters, they need ammo to test their gun & have some for “just in case”.ġ0% – Law enforcement agencies are upping their contracts and using and/or stockpiling more ammo. You see these people in front of sporting good stores at 6:00 AM to get ammo as soon as it comes off the truck.ġ5% – New gun owners. 22’s on tables for $75+ left over from the last ammo shortage. 243 etc are less/not available.Ģ5% – Scalpers are scooping up this ammo to sell at gun shows for ridiculous prices. The fact that shotgun loading machines can’t be set up for 9mm means shotgun ammo is still plentiful, while.
Factories have taken production lines away from lower demand rounds in favor of high demand ones. I would say this breakdown of 4 reasons probably sums it up:ĥ0% – People are hoarding common ammunition calibers – 5.56/.223, 7.62×39 & all handgun calibers.
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