Fire at the IL Winchester ammo plant.

[Bigtanker]

[Video] BREAKING: Major Fire at Winchester Ammo Plant

There is a fire at the Winchester ammo plant in Illinois. That sound you hear is prices going up.

 

[TopDog]

It was a maintenance bldg. Why would that significantly raise the price of ammo? Unless of course it is just used as an excuse to raise prices.

 

[Who Dares Wins]

It may be difficult to keep the plant running without proper maintenance. Hopefully they can keep their main machinery running at full speed!!!

 

[atvdave]

No injuries reporter after fire at southern Illinois ammunition plant (2/9/14 1:35 pm)

 

[Wolfhound]

I am happy that no one was hurt. I am sure this will have some negative effect on the plants ability to produce ammunition in the near future.

 

[hornadylnl]

Now we treat ammo manufacturers like big oil. It's all a conspiracy.

 

[straight-shooter]

Now we treat ammo manufacturers like big oil. It's all a conspiracy.

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Found another thread with an opportunity didn't ya.

 

[hornadylnl]

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Found another thread with an opportunity didn't ya.

Just the same as others found an opportunity to blame the man for their lack of ammo.

 

[straight-shooter]

Just the same as others found an opportunity to blame the man for their lack of ammo.

LOL, keeps the afternoon interesting.

 

[BogWalker]

It's perfectly reasonable to think a factory fire could cause a further decrease in supply. I don't think they'd use it as an excuse to raise prices if it didn't have to, but I imagine something like this can't happen without having some effect on production.

 

[dmarsh8]

Not sure how an unfortunate catastrophe is a conspiracy, but as far a
temporary halt in production, there of course is a possibility of a supply issue.
Not likely of higher prices except for people that may try to use it to
their advantage. (don't let a good crisis go to waste mentality)
As far as winchester is concerned I'm guessing they carry a healthy amt of insurance
for such events.

 

[12many]

No injuries reporter after fire at southern Illinois ammunition plant (2/9/14 1:35 pm)

I'm from Southern Stallinois and it makes me laugh when I see people call a place like East Alton "Southern Illinois". Heck it's North of St Louis. Cairo, now that's Southern Illinois.
Sorry about hi-jacking the thread.

 

[M4Madness]

I hope the 10K of .22LR that they are shipping me from East Alton this week wasn't burned up!

 

[Broom_jm]

It's perfectly reasonable to think a factory fire could cause a further decrease in supply. I don't think they'd use it as an excuse to raise prices if it didn't have to, but I imagine something like this can't happen without having some effect on production.

Key word being "could", whereas the odds are very high that prices "will" go up. Ammo, 22LR in particular, is being treated like a commodity by a lot of folks these days.

 

[M4Madness]

When I spoke today with the girl I've been dealing with at Winchester, she said that the fire will have no effect on production, and even if it had, .22LR would not be affected because it is manufactured in Oxford, not East Alton.

 

[Number9xd]

When I spoke today with the girl I've been dealing with at Winchester, she said that the fire will have no effect on production, and even if it had, .22LR would not be affected because it is manufactured in Oxford, not East Alton.

Hadn't heard that. That's good news for 22 buyers!

 

[ljk]

It was a maintenance bldg. Why would that significantly raise the price of ammo? Unless of course it is just used as an excuse to raise prices.

OSHA will come down with hammers swinging, they couldn't wait to shut everything down for a while, have them replacing everything equipment more than couple years old. "just to make sure everything is safe" in that place.