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Cake day: August 2nd, 2023

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  • For anyone wanting that headline explained:

    The Lake City plant is owned by the US gov, but run under contract by various companies over the years. The company that runs it is contractually obligated to maintain the capability to make something like a billion rounds a year for the US gov, and they do that by selling what the government doesn’t need to the public. (Most of what they make is sold commercially).

    So although true, the story boils down to “cartels bought publicly available ammo in the US and smuggled it into Mexico” where I believe that ammunition is restricted to military use.