While new shell production plants are being opened in the United States, America still faces a shortage of energetics and propellants.
  • Dendr0@fedia.io
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    1 month ago

    Welp, looks like we’ll just have to focus on the fun stuff… like railguns and plasma weapons. Hopefully we all live long enough to see the future sci-fi keeps telling us about…

    Minus the dystopian part, preferably.

  • HelixDab2@lemm.ee
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    30 days ago

    Hmph. Might explain why gunpowder prices and availability is poor right now. I can only find Accurate 2230 in 1# canisters instead of 8# jugs, and other powders just aren’t available at all. Vihtavouri–made in Finland–seems to have the same issues. Primers are pretty easy to find now; they were out of stock everywhere for the first two years of the pandemic.

    • Hadriscus@lemm.ee
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      29 days ago

      Gunpowder ? I’m a complete layman but wasn’t gunpowder used in old guns that the user had to refill manually ? I understand it is sold in detail nowadays ? For what usage ?

            • HelixDab2@lemm.ee
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              29 days ago

              It’s a little more complicated than that, mostly because you don’t have to worry about building a Lego set incorrectly and having it explosively deconstruct itself in your hands. :) But broadly, yeah, unless you get really deep into the weeks, like wildcat cartridges, or swaging your own bullets, it’s pretty much assembling the ‘right’ components.