Vista Outdoors for sale

[L.Sherm]

When you have the capacity to control pricing and supply!! The consumer is gonna take it you know were simple as that.

 

[L.Sherm]

Look at the shear volume of production in boise, or Columbia falls.

Its a whole different ball game when government permitting is involved, look at why no new oil refineries tons of money and permitting processes that take 10 years to MAYBE get no company is gonna invest in that kind of money for 10 years.
My bet is try and start powder or primers would probably be same fiasco since there classified as explosives.

 

[del2les]

Understand that sentiment completely, but it's not dead until all the good people are.

My job the last few years in the off season has been sourcing and locating parts for boat owners and boat yards, as well as doing repairs myself. It's afforded me some fun opportunities to travel and interface with many more people than I was accustomed to when just fishing. Always one to mix business with fun, everywhere I travel we stop at some gun industry places.

Quite frankly there are lots off innovative and amazing hard working people making all manner of amazing products. Look at the shear volume of production in boise, or Columbia falls.

We have had significant advancement in brass and bullet construction domestically. Overnight or at least in the last decade hundreds of local or at least Regional Firearms Manufacturing sprung up. Now we just got to find someone willing to put in the effort to do primers and domestic powder. But it's gonna take investment and customers, I'm in on both if someone has quality suggestions.

As someone who has witnessed the decades of industrial decline all across America and countless dying towns and having lost a couple of jobs myself and witnessed several family members and friends due to industry moving out-of-country, I'm just saying it is "another" sign the USA is not what it once was and is in a state of industrial decline.

Just look at all the stuff that comes from China and other countries that are no longer "Made in the USA" or owned by US companies.

 

[comfisherman]

I get it. It's a tough road, up hill with lots of head wind and potholes.

But there are still amazing and talented people running around this nation. Certainly the American spirit isn't so dead we just roll over and cry into our beers.

 

[L.Sherm]

Absolutely not, untill I'm 6' under anyway

 

[biednick]

As a side note isn't Lake City owned by Federal?

The plant itself is owned by the federal government, and operated by contractors. It was originally built and operated by Remington. As of a few years ago Winchester is running it. Lake City exists primarily to produce ammo for the military, and if they're able to produce an excess of ammunition they're allowed to sell it on the civilian market.

 

[can1010]

I've been saying this for awhile, Vista has owned the majority of primers and Hodgdon the powders, only exception is Viht and RL.
I remember when Viht powders were about always 10.00 more a pound and harder to get but its not anymore.
I find myself using more Viht powders these days.

I to have been moving away from Hodgen. Been using more Shooters World powders for everyday and blaster ammo and just started exploring Viht powder alternatives, also moved to Fiocchi and Unis Ginex for primers. totally swore off Alliant powders after not being available for so long and when returned at dope smoker pricing.

 

[WhiteRiver]

Here are a couple of more articles:

Vista Outdoor Enters into Definitive Agreement to Sell Sporting Products Business to Czechoslovak Group for $1.91 Billion - Soldier Systems Daily

ANOKA, Minn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Vista Outdoor Inc. (NYSE: VSTO) (“Vista Outdoor”), the parent company of 41 renowned brands that design, manufacture and market sporting and outdoor products to consumers around the globe, today announced a definitive agreement to sell its Sporting Products...

soldiersystems.net

Vista Sale Drives Down Stock Price, Ammo Uncertainty Growing | Outdoor Wire

 

[Peddler 76]

Read the Forbes article. Meet the 27 year old arms dealer Michal Strnad the Czech Industrialist with more tanks than the army.

 

[Bucklowery]

Wait till you see who controls the group from czech

 

[Peddler 76]

I'd like to see the government step in and squash this deal!

 

[Backwoods towny]

I'd like to see the government step in and squash this deal!

Yeah right. They are the ones pushing for it.

 

[baldhunter]

I wonder if the billions of US tax dollars sent to Ukraine with no accountability may have been involved in this purchase?

https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/21/politics/war-funding-ukraine-what-matters/index.html

Even if the war ends tomorrow, it will take 15 years to fill army warehouses, says Michal Strnad, the biggest czech arms manufacturer

Ruler of the arms industry group, Czechoslovak Group, Michal Strnad, in an exclusive interview, the first in four years, talks for the first time about the war in Ukraine and the record purchase of the famous Italian arms manufacturer, Fiocchi.

czechoslovakgroup.cz

 

[Darryle]

Since Lake City was brought up, got this from Defender Ammunition