Everytown’s ‘Journalism’ Goes After Lake City Ammunition

Lake City Ammunition is something that may or may not populate the ammo aisle at your local sporting goods stores, but it’s a well-known name just the same. And, like all ammunition, it’s mostly useless unless you have a firearm to shoot it out of.

But while groups like Everytown keep prattling on about how gun control works, they also want to target ammunition suppliers every step of the way.

And Everytown’s Temu version of The Trace has targeted Lake City specifically for…doing nothing wrong.

In November 2023, a New York Times investigation found that AR-15 ammunition produced at the Lake City Army Ammunition Plant — a government-owned, contractor-operated facility in Independence, Missouri — had been used in at least a dozen mass shootings, including the attacks in Aurora, San Bernardino, Las Vegas, Sutherland Springs, Parkland, Buffalo, and Uvalde. Now, new reporting has revealed that Lake City ammunition has been tied to twice as many criminal investigations across the U.S. as any other manufacturer of AR-15 ammunition.

According to The New York Times and International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), nearly 30 percent of the 5.56mm and .223-caliber spent cartridge casings recovered by police between 2017 and 2024 bore Lake City’s distinctive markings. The data is drawn from the National Integrated Ballistic Information Network (NIBIN), a crime-solving tool administered by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF).

The news comes after a recent Smoking Gun report revealed that the Department of Defense had awarded at least $3.5 billion to gun makers who sell “battle-tested” copies of their military weapons to civilians.

Their big thing seems to be that Lake City is government-owned but contractor-run, and the contractors are selling surplus ammunition. The fact that this actually raises money that isn’t coming out of taxpayer funds seems to be missed by the so-called journalists.

Shocking.

The thing is, the sales of surplus materials are far from uncommon. Just about anything that a civilian can own is sold on the surplus market. They do it all the time. Ammo is hardly special in that regard.

Further, while they make a huge thing out of 30 percent of it being from Lake City, that means 70 percent comes from somewhere else. They didn’t really get into that, now did they? Funny, that.

But here’s an interesting tidbit:

Larry Keane, senior vice president and general counsel for the National Shooting Sports Foundation, the gun industry’s trade association, once estimated that Lake City produces over 30 percent of the AR-15 ammunition used by civilians.

So, an incredibly popular ammo manufacturer that sells nearly a third of all the AR-15 ammo used by civilians sees a similar amount show up at crime scenes, and you don’t see that as just an artifact of their market share?

Again, though, if their claims that gun control works, why does it matter where the ammo comes from?

Moreover, if Lake City were to stop selling ammunition on the civilian market, would that somehow stop bad people from using 5.56 ammo? Hardly.

But what it would do is drive up the costs for ammunition for the government. Everyone would be forced to foot the bill because the anti-gun “newsroom” from Wish.com decided to step in it and shut down civilian sales.

And the bad guys will still have plenty of ammo, will keep getting guns despite all the laws Everytown swears work so well, and we’ll just have more trouble ourselves because these morons can’t figure out that criminals will always figure out a way around their laws.

Editor’s Note: After more than 40 days of screwing Americans, a few Dems have finally caved. The Schumer Shutdown was never about principle—just inflicting pain for political points.

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