Joe quietly just struck the biggest blow to the gun industry in a generation

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34. I think it's just economics

The Soviet Union had arms factories that made lots of military ammo for the USSR and beneficiaries of Soviet military assistance. I'm going to guess the factories are still in business (probably the exact same machinery) making large quantities of the 3 or 4 different types of cartridges that were Soviet standard.

Modern Russia still has large mineral resources, so they just keep making the ammo. But with many Americans now owning firearms that shoot Russian/Soviet cartridges they were able to export to American civilians as well as their military customers.

The market will adapt. Lord knows that with Democrats in office gun sales and ammo sales will remain high.