Making the right stuff for the wrong people

They should privatize and start making civilian rounds. From The Kansas City Star:

Lake City employees are offered voluntary layoffs
Hourly workers at the federally owned Lake City Ammunition Plant in Independence have been given voluntary layoff offers as part of a plan to reduce the workforce of 2,600.

The cutbacks result mainly from modernization efforts during the last eight years, according to Bryan Kidder, a spokesman for Alliant Techsystems, which operates the facility for the U.S. Army.

Previously, the Army had said the plant�s 30 government employees could see cutbacks as part of the broad federal spending cuts known as sequestration. Kidder, in an email, said the layoff plans are not related to sequestration.

Kidder said that the number of expected job cuts and their timing is unknown but that an involuntary layoff probably will follow the voluntary departures.

Civilian ammo is back-ordered for several months at any price. What stuff I do see on the shelves is limited to a box or two purchase and is three times the cost of six months ago. Wal-Mart shelves are bare of the common calibers, ditto my local gun shop. Seriously, privatize and your crew will be working 24/7 for the next year or two.