Furthermore, foreign ownership of U.S. ammunition manufacturing reminds us of some jarring realities.

For instance, free speech means nothing if Americans have no forum in which to speak freely. With this in mind, imagine the present state of the First Amendment had Elon Musk not purchased Twitter. To what extent do our most fundamental freedoms depend on the actions of a single billionaire?

The analogy is imperfect, of course, but the question it raises is similar. Can we allow the practical exercise of our Second Amendment rights to depend on a Czech billionaire?

So now Biden could place a embargo on Czech due to some fabricated national emergency and stop all imports of ammunition. I can see it coming now.

If they will crank up production, drive the prices down, and flood America with tons and tons of ammo, I'm fine with that.

Czech company. Not necessarily very alarming from a political standpoint. Frankly quality standards might actually be raised. The Czechs maintain a quality weapons industry

But still it raises valid points. How many American Companies are now held by foreign interests. Or even Domestic interests that are hostile to long term American interests

I knew I would come to regret selling off my reloading gear, but I just didn't have the room for it and it was all getting pretty old.

Looks like "another argument" In my plea to move farther out away from population. But now is not a good time to be buying\financing property.

And what if this Czech company decide to just close up shop here in the US, then where will we get ammo from? Could be a way for the DS to control stealing our right to defend ourselves. We won't give up our guns, but it they shut down production of ammo we need for our guns, they still get what they want... us unarmed.

Wonder if my ex still has all that reloading equipment? Get some if you can.

Lake City (Utah) is largest ammo plant in plant in USA. Military ammo (a large %) is made there. Ammo companies contract to run the facility, it is kind of a strange arrangrment. Currently I believe it is operated by Winchester. Excess or seconds are sold to the public. Sig Sauer also has a fairly large ammo plant in Arkansas. Ammo might get scarce for a while if the companies that got bought close up, but I dont think supplies would go away. As always, dont believe a random guy on the internet - stock up while you can, and if you can swing it reload at home.

Breaking: bill gates buys majority share of Czech IT firm.......just kidding of course.

Why are foreigners allowed to buy our land, buildings, ports, and manufacturing? Do other countries allow that (if it isn't forced on them)?

This should be considered national security, should not be allowed.

Aren't a lot of these .mil suppliers?

Seems that should be a problem. Maybe with the plants in the US that sidesteps.

Big fan of CCI, especially in 22lr. Have quite a few bricks stashed should we ever need for small game and critter control. Don't think I've ever had a FTE, FTF or FTL with CCI.

We'll know how problematic this is if their largest customer turns out to be the IRS.

Did just a bit of looking into this. The Czech company involved is an Industrial Tech company with fingers in defense categories, it is not an Information Technology company.

Vista Outdoors was a spin-off company that had acquired several iconic brands as a sporting company. It was originally a part of Alliant Tech Systems which is most widely known for the reloading powders Alliant brand, but involved far more than this with Defense contracts for producing a number of powders for artillery type weapons and technical products for missiles and other Defense related products. When Alliant spun off their tech based support from the outdoor sporting aspects, it created Vista Outdoors. They had acquired Speer/CCI when the previous owners Blount Inc sold off their outdoor products line and concentrated on machinery. Throughout all of this, the businesses continued to manufacture their iconic lines. Vista Outdoors expanded by taking opportunities to buy the Remington brand of ammo when that company declared bankruptcy after the the Bushmaster fiasco following Sandy Hook. the investment Company that owned the rights to the Remington name sold off different portions of the iconic business to different other companies that wanted the portions of the company that competed in their fields. This is why Remington brand firearms are still being manufactured and sold. Not all the previous lines, but the most profitable and well known.

What all of this means is up for debate. Whether there is a conspiracy to regulate these products from the American people or not is unknown. When we look at some other brands that were bought out, Colt comes to mind. They were bought out by CZ because the owners of Colt didn't evolve well or compete in the modern era. The end result is that Colt has been releasing iconic firearms from their famous past including their renowned revolvers from the original to the snake series (Python, Anaconda, King Cobra and Single Action Army) where some had been discontinued for decades. These are now available to purchase once again. Seems to me that CZ buying Colt wasn't a bad thing. Can we hope that CCI/Speer, Remington ammo and others continue their lineage? I certainly do. The CCI brand is by far my favorite rimfire brand and I would hate to see it lost. I guess the greater question is how ingrained are the Globalists in Czech companies?