Ammo in Canada

[Bullet Caster]

What happened to our ammunition manufaturers in Canada. We should be able to supply ourselves with affordable ammo. Something wrong with this picture
Bullet Caster

 

[Longwalker]

- and the US company General Dynamics just bout Expro Tec, (Montreal) from the Canadian firm SNC-Lavalin. Expro-tec supply over 70% of the small arms ammo for the Canadain armed forces. So now not just recreational shooters, but our military will be shooting USA ammunition too.

 

[Bullet Caster]

Sad state of affairs, if you will pardon the pun

Bullet Caster

 

[TimC]

Worse than that we dont make any guns here now and our powder for Radway Green is made in France!

 

[Ian Robertson]

I don't think your average American knows where most of their consumables come from!

 

[R005t3r]

Service

Welcome to the service based economy. For heaven's sake, don't get me started on self sufficiency!

 

[bigdawg]

yea this really bad i wish canada made a few guns now there is't much we can be proud of

 

[Ardent]

yea this really bad i wish canada made a few guns now there is't much we can be proud of

I disagree, we have Wildcat bullets, a fast growing and trend setting custom bullet manufacturer from Alberta that I'm reading more and more Americans praise, and PGWDTI in the flatlands which received a military contract for their .338 Lapua sniping system, as well as Dlask on the west coast turning out AR's and short 870's, as well as tons of movie guns. The small scale manufacturers of Canada are alive and well, and dare I say, getting more advanced.

 

[Stevo]

Moved. Did not belong in Dealer forum.

 

[CanAm]

- and the US company General Dynamics just bout Expro Tec, (Montreal) from the Canadian firm SNC-Lavalin. Expro-tec supply over 70% of the small arms ammo for the Canadain armed forces. So now not just recreational shooters, but our military will be shooting USA ammunition too.

Expro is actually the powder plant (ex-dupont) SNC-tec was the ammo plant.

 

[Ripstop]

Wasn't it Trudeau who started off this nonsense about dismantling our ammunition making industries?

 

[ian_in_vic]

Don't start with Trudeau, the worst thing to happen to this country. There wasn't a single original, good or decent thing about that waste of flesh. If he's a Canadian Icon so's my ass.

 

[TimC]

Don't start with Trudeau, the worst thing to happen to this country. There wasn't a single original, good or decent thing about that waste of flesh. If he's a Canadian Icon so's my ass.

 

[x westie]

Wasn't it Trudeau who started off this nonsense about dismantling our ammunition making industries?

Trudeau also shut down our small arms factory ..Canadian Arsenals Ltd...makers of the FN C1 rifle...previously Long Branch...which produced over 900,000 Lee Enfield No.4 rifles.....for almost 10 years Canada was with out any small arms making facilities....Trudeau was a total cluster f*ck.

 

[4570-1]

I was going to say some things about IMR powders being made in Canada ,But I'm lost in the total blinding brillance of "xwestie" final statment and now must go and rest.