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Urabrask Revealed said:
He can order whatever he wants, it's up to his bootlickers to see them through.
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The Whispering Monk said:
It's an order he CAN'T lawfully give. Not if the company wants to refuse.
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The ammo maker in question is actually owned by the USA govt. govt hires private contractors to operate it.

According to the article produces the ammo for the USA military, but also sells its surplus ammo. Its surplus accounts for 30% of the ammo available on the market.

So this will lead to a significant shortage. I am not sure what the economic impact of this would be. (the sales to the public subsidize the costs of operation. without said subsidies the military costs more. but I am not sure by how much. could be trivial, could be a lot)

As for legality, it depends on the specifics of the contract with those managing the plants. Does the contract specify that the president can overrule their business decisions? Not that they care about legality. covid shutdowns were illegal too, didn't stop anyone.
 
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The Whispering Monk said:
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Gotcha, owned by the US Army, and managed by Winchester currently.

So, the Army can just likely tell them to stop private sales, and the CinC can tell the Army to issue that order.

Wonderful. The world's LARGEST ammunition factory.
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This situation might be less about restricting civie ammo sales, and more about the military's own stocks of 5.56 getting worn down by the war in Ukraine/aid for Ukraine, and well the CCP is eyeing Taiwan a lot these days, so having a larger ammo stock pile for the military makes some sense.

I think they want to save the ammo for when it all brews up.

Removing the ammo from the civie market and pissing off gun owners is just fringe benefit.
 
Bacle said:
This situation might be less about restricting civie ammo sales, and more about the military's own stocks of 5.56 getting worn down by the war in Ukraine/aid for Ukraine, and well the CCP is eyeing Taiwan a lot these days, so having a larger ammo stock pile for the military makes some sense.

I think they want to save the ammo for when it all brews up.

Removing the ammo from the civie market and pissing off gun owners is just fringe benefit.
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They're getting all the ammo they need, it's just the surplus that gets sold to the public.

This government gets it's ideas off Twitter. Just a few weeks ago I saw opinions start popping up around Twitter that if you can't go for the guns, go for the ammo.

Biden's handlers saw this idea on Twitter, so now they're trying it.

This is how they have been operating for his entire presidency so far. If it gets popular on Twitter you can guess the Biden admin will be doing it before long.
 
Rocinante said:
They're getting all the ammo they need, it's just the surplus that gets sold to the public.

This government gets it's ideas off Twitter. Just a few weeks ago I saw opinions start popping up around Twitter that if you can't go for the guns, go for the ammo.

Biden's handlers saw this idea on Twitter, so now they're trying it.

This is how they have been operating for his entire presidency so far. If it gets popular on Twitter you can guess the Biden admin will be doing it before long.
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I expect you are right.

However, with the way things are going in Ukraine and how the CCP is looking at Taiwan...I could see the military/DC deciding to stop civie sales of the 'excess' so that all of the production ends up in military stores.
 
Bacle said:
I expect you are right.

However, with the way things are going in Ukraine and how the CCP is looking at Taiwan...I could see the military/DC deciding to stop civie sales of the 'excess' so that all of the production ends up in military stores.
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They would just stop producing so much if they couldn't offload the surplus, and there wouldn't be a surplus if the government wanted to buy it all up.

The surplus is just what's left after uncle Sam gets everything he wants. If the US wanted more for themselves they wouldn't need to restrict them from selling the surplus. They'd just take/buy it before it even has a chance to be sold to civilians.
 
Bacle said:
This situation might be less about restricting civie ammo sales, and more about the military's own stocks of 5.56 getting worn down by the war in Ukraine/aid for Ukraine, and well the CCP is eyeing Taiwan a lot these days, so having a larger ammo stock pile for the military makes some sense.

I think they want to save the ammo for when it all brews up.

Removing the ammo from the civie market and pissing off gun owners is just fringe benefit.
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It's the surplus.
As in what's left.
Not that they have certain production going too civie market.

The military will never run out.
Do you know how often we go shooting?
There is more ammo on the military shot in a year then most civilians own.
 
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"We need more money to plan for the second pandemic, there's going to be another pandemic."

Edit: They do not even feel the need to pretend they are not setting up for another pandemic, after the success they got off the first one they unleashed.
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Haven't watched the whole thing, but it seems to me Biden mentioned this at the last minute, so that the media wouldn't press him on it? The fact he didn't take follow-up questions and packed up immediately after doesn't help him optically, either, so there's that. :unsure:
 
Zyobot said:
Haven't watched the whole thing, but it seems to me Biden mentioned this at the last minute, so that the media wouldn't press him on it? The fact he didn't take follow-up questions and packed up immediately after doesn't help him optically, either, so there's that. :unsure:
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It's only a 20 second clip; think it was from the end of the presser.
 
Bacle said:
It's only a 20 second clip;
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I was referring to the whole conference, which (I'm guessing) is hours long.

Bacle said:
think it was from the end of the presser.
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That's what I thought, yeah. Too bad it all stopped there, though, as I'm sure Biden would've had some "interesting" answers for whatever follow-up questions the journos had for him. ;)
 
Russia Overtakes Saudi Arabia As China's Top Oil Supplier

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BY TYLER DURDEN
WEDNESDAY, JUN 22, 2022 - 05:00 AM
Authored by Tsvetana Paraskova via OilPrice.com,
  • Chinese imports of Russian crude surged by 55 percent in May as the world’s biggest importer of oil took advantage of major discounts.
  • Russia has now overtaken Saudi Arabia as China’s top oil supplier.
  • While Russia is sending lots more crude to Asia, it is unlikely that the Asian market can absorb all 4 million barrels that were going to Europe.
China imported a record volume of Russian crude in May, with arrivals surging by 55 percent to nearly 2 million barrels per day (bpd). This has made Russia the top oil supplier to the world's leading crude importer—putting it ahead of Saudi Arabia for the first time in a year and a half.

A record volume of cheap Russian oil, which sells at steep discounts to crude from other countries, made its way to Chinese refiners last month, according to figures from China's General Administration of Customs cited by Reuters.

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China imported 1.98 million bpd of Russian crude oil in May, up by 55 percent from May last year and up from 1.59 million bpd of Russian oil imported in April 2022, the data showed.

The high purchases of Russian oil outstripped supply from Saudi Arabia, Russia's partner in the OPEC+ deal. Chinese imports of Saudi crude averaged 1.84 million bpd in May, up by 9 percent compared to May 2021, but down from 2.17 million bpd imported in April, according to the data cited by Reuters.

Thanks to the increased shipments of cheap crude to China, Russia became the top supplier to the world's biggest oil importer for the first time in 19 months, per Reuters estimates.

Russia has been increasingly selling its crude to China and India after Western buyers shun Russian oil and the EU—Russia's top oil customer before the war in Ukraine—prepares to launch a phased-out embargo on seaborne imports from Russia by the end of the year.

Russia is also estimated to have overtaken Saudi Arabia to become India's second-largest supplier of crude oil in May. The average daily rate of Russian oil exports to India stood at 819,000 barrels last month, compared with 277,000 bpd in April.

Half of Russia's crude is headed east to Asia. This compares to 75 percent of Russia's oil exports which were being shipped to Europe earlier this year, Alexander Dyukov, chief executive of Gazprom Neft, said last week.

Still, analysts doubt that the Asian market can absorb all 4 million bpd of oil that Russia was sending to Europe before the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
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Its almost like Biden is working For The Chinese: Russia overtakes Saudi Arabia as China's top oil supplier and the Chinese are getting that Russian oil at deep discounts
 
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Arch Dornan said:
If he doesn't drill by 2024 the presidential candidate that will promise to drill will win a huge margin of the vote.
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Obviously. I mean, I don't care about the tax, it goes into our highways after all, but he could obviously fix this problem by not pretending to be stupid. Any man that can manage a social conglomerate, a sex trade and become president should be able to manage this nation. Yet he isn't doing well? I want to say it's because Democrat solutions don't work, but obviously they did under Obama, as that was a reasonably stable period. So it makes total sense that he's bombing our economy on the order's of someone else. I vote China.
 
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