Readers might have seen last night's broadcast on Public Television, of a program dealing with Walmart and the companies background. A lot of the material discussed in the program revolved about the following question. Is Walmart good for America? The answer seems to be NO, writ large, due to the fact that Walmart's procurement policies appear to drive American jobs overseas, to "low cost areas". Readers of the foregoing might be wondering as to the connection between this situation, and guns and or shooting. Stay with me for a moment, and the question might become self answering.
A number of people that I shoot pistol competition with are Glock users, I am not one such. In any event, Glocks due to the nature of the rifling pattern of their barrels, polygonal rather than conventional cut, broached or button rifled, are not particularly compatible with cast bullets, or so the story goes.
A bunch of my fellow shooters buy jacketed bullet ammunition, Winchester brand in particular, bulk packaged at about $11.00/100 plus sales tax, for 9mm Luger caliber, 115 grain. Other calibers are available too, though I don't recall what the prices might be. Personally, I shoot lead bullet reloads, my own, perhaps because I'm cheap, never-the-less, that's what I do.
Anyhow, I do not know if this Winchester brand ammunition is manufactured in the U.S. or in China, possibly a result of American jobs having been exported to that country. Perhaps Winchester has established an ammunition plant in China, I don't know. In any case, while $11.77 , the approximate price for the 100 round package of the above mentioned ammunition, including sales tax, in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania might be a pretty good price, other things being equal, are they "equal".
Might the relatively small amount of money you save on this Walmart Bargain, in the long run, turn out to be the most expensive money you ever "saved", when it turns out that your saving cost some other guy or gal their job. By the way, the money that I "save" buying at Walmart, whatever it might be that I bought there, might well turn out to have been a factor in your job disappearing too. Perhaps something to think about, something for all manner of people to think about.
A number of people that I shoot pistol competition with are Glock users, I am not one such. In any event, Glocks due to the nature of the rifling pattern of their barrels, polygonal rather than conventional cut, broached or button rifled, are not particularly compatible with cast bullets, or so the story goes.
A bunch of my fellow shooters buy jacketed bullet ammunition, Winchester brand in particular, bulk packaged at about $11.00/100 plus sales tax, for 9mm Luger caliber, 115 grain. Other calibers are available too, though I don't recall what the prices might be. Personally, I shoot lead bullet reloads, my own, perhaps because I'm cheap, never-the-less, that's what I do.
Anyhow, I do not know if this Winchester brand ammunition is manufactured in the U.S. or in China, possibly a result of American jobs having been exported to that country. Perhaps Winchester has established an ammunition plant in China, I don't know. In any case, while $11.77 , the approximate price for the 100 round package of the above mentioned ammunition, including sales tax, in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania might be a pretty good price, other things being equal, are they "equal".
Might the relatively small amount of money you save on this Walmart Bargain, in the long run, turn out to be the most expensive money you ever "saved", when it turns out that your saving cost some other guy or gal their job. By the way, the money that I "save" buying at Walmart, whatever it might be that I bought there, might well turn out to have been a factor in your job disappearing too. Perhaps something to think about, something for all manner of people to think about.
