HELENA – Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen led a coalition in calling on the Biden administration to keep a major commercial ammunition manufacturing plant open following a request by Democrat attorneys general to investigate the plant, which would halt production. Shutting down the plant would decrease ammunition supply and undermine national security.
In the letter sent Wednesday to President Biden and White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention Director Stefanie Feldman, Attorney General Knudsen opposed the requests by Democrats to open an investigation into the Lake City Army Ammunition Plant and called out them out for their misleading attempts to tie the plant to mass shootings. The allegations do not justify placing unreasonable limitations on the plant and undermine the Second Amendment right as one cannot exercise their right to keep and bear arms without access to ammunition.
“The Biden administration and Democrats are treading dangerous ground. They will apparently stop at nothing to keep Americans from exercising their right to keep and bear arms, even if it means diminishing ammunition production capabilities and undermining our national security,” Attorney General Knudsen said. “Worse yet, their latest effort to shut down the Lake City Army Ammunition Plant is based on a highly questionable ‘investigation’ by the New York Times.”
Not only is the Lake City plant crucial to the nationwide ammunition supply chain, but the plant has a longstanding contract with the United States Department of Defense to allow for commercial use of the facility for the purpose of supporting military readiness.
“We need to be primed at any moment to increase production and provide our military with much-needed ammunition to provide protection domestically and to our international allies. Lake City remains a vital part of the past, present, and future of the U.S. Military and military readiness. Rather than pushing Lake City out of business, we should be thanking them for the role they play in arming our military,” the attorneys general wrote.
Rather than punishing criminals who perpetrate gun violence, Democrats are attempting to punish the firearms and ammunition industry and are putting the safety of armed Americans trying to protect themselves from violent crime at risk.
“We strongly advise against heeding the Democrat attorneys general request to investigate Lake City. There are no allegations of wrongdoing that could justify placing such unreasonable limits on Lake City or any other firearm, parts, or ammunition manufacturer. If this course continues, we intend to take any and every action necessary to defend our citizens’ Second Amendment rights,” the attorneys general concluded.
Attorneys general from Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Nebraska, New Hampshire, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, West Virginia, Wyoming and the North Carolina legislature joined the letter which was co-led by Indiana, Iowa, and Missouri.
Attorney Generals Calls On Biden Administration To Protect Ammunition LETTER
the brandon administration will probably conduct an “investigation” into lake city to appease the progs but i doubt even brandon will shut down lake city as much as he hates the Second Amendment. that 27 attorney’s general signed off on this letter has to let brandon know that this is nonsense. on another note, why do we need a white house office of gun violence prevention? aren’t there other agencies in the executive branch (doj) that do similar work, i.e. fbi, batfe, ss? we have waaaaaaaaaay too many federal government employees as it is, we don’t have to keep on… Read more »
Just like BATFE the office was created to infringe. That is its sole purpose, to infringe on civil rights. None of the laws or agencies created by government have any intent to deter or decrease crime… only to disarm citizens who with arms will refuse to become serfs.
Arizona said: “That is its sole purpose, to infringe on civil rights”
And that is the one thing that they do very well. The only thing, but they do it to the Nth degree!
Stop trying to be logical. That doesn’t work in this bizzarro world.
And you aren’t just kidding, Bill. Logic has no meaning on; “Htrae”, which is “Earth” spelled backwards! 🙂
“the cube-shaped world of Bizarro where everything is the opposite” -https://www.dc.com/graphic-novels/superman-tales-of-the-bizarro-world
Downvoting Superman? How low can you get? 🙂
Of course there is no need for yet another federal bureaucracy, as if that’s ever stopped one from being created. It’s not even another law enforcement agency that could, but won’t, stop or prevent more crime. They’re going to make proclamations, fund junk science studies and send strongly worded letters.
The main purpose of the OVGP is to make it look like they’re “doing something “. A secondary purpose is reward is to give loyal acolytes cushy federal jobs that require much in the way of work and results.
The ‘White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention’ is nothing ore than a partisan method to figure out new and innovative way to DISARM America.
Thats why is staffed only Anti-Gunners Cherry-picked for the job.
And to funnel our tax dollars to fellow gun grabbing authoritarian wanna-be dictators of the socialist party. They created yet another permanent income stream for democrat bottom feeders, using our own money that is confiscated and redistributed,
Biden can’t even protect the effing border..
never mind Biden’s botched Afghan exit was disaster.
never mind Boozy Hilary Clinton.. She was directly responsible for our guys dying in Benghazi. FACT!
Effing democrats… toxic vermin.
I wonder if the reason why is that J. Christopher Stevens had something on her and was getting ready to say something and rather than the normal he committed suicide by shooting himself in the back of the head or he jumped out of a window or killed himself at the local park, she handled it that way by not doing nothing. I doubt I will be alive when we find out the real story behind that. Remember the reason they protested was because of some guys video and it just got out of hand and they didn’t expect it.… Read more »
Interesting…
Stevens was sent out to recover the Stinger missiles Hillary’s State Dept. had been supplying to the terrorist groups that had been shooting down our military helicopters. She was afraid that they would be tracked back to her. That was why Biden made the Navy abort their mission to help the guys in Bengazi. They are all traitors and should be tried and executed for treason.
It isn’t “just” demorats, it is a toxic mix of liberals of both parties and alleged “independents”. Our country has some serious problems, economic, moral, and political sicknesses going to the bone..
Liberal ‘Publicans are the WORST!
Nikki Haley is a perfect example of trash.
Dementia Joe ain’t honorable, and he sure isn’t a legitimately elected ANYTHING, and the pedophile has no power to shut down an ammo manufacturer. No reason production would be curtailed even if there were an investigation, and no rational world would initiate one, as manufacturers have naught to do with end users and their actions. Joey could come to my shop personally, dirty diaper and all, and I’d tell him to eat s h i t. Lake City should ignore any actions his puppet master make Biden take, as well as any agencies.
Letters don’t stop totalitarians or tyrants. But you know what does?…
Is it social media posts?
What about pouting and throwing temper tantrums? Might that stop a tyrant? 🙂
First off, notice on the list of states supporting this that no left coast state was listed. Second, they can’t close the plant because that is where the US military, US FBI, US ATF, US CIA, US IRS, Israel, Ukraine and Iran/Afghan gets it’s ammo from via ammo left behind. Third, I don’t think they want to close the plant via another article I read on this site, but they want to close off We the People from being able to buy overruns or ammo that doesn’t quite make the requirements for military standards but shoots or maybe it is… Read more »
It’s not overruns. LC by contract needs to maintain around 1.8 B rounds of capacity. LC does that by running at that rate and government buys about 40% of that so the majority is sold commercially. Sometime after October 7, the government started taking 100%. All without having to bring up idle capacity, hire and train employees.
“calling on the Biden administration to keep a major commercial ammunition manufacturing plant open following a request by Democrat attorneys general to investigate the plant, which would halt production. Shutting down the plant would decrease ammunition supply”
And here we go again. Yet another attempt to destroy ammunition, since the antiprogs have been unable to advance their gun control agenda. Could it be any more obvious? Like if they tattooed it onto their face, like the giant wart on the wicked witch’s nose? 🙂
By calling on him to keep the plant open, those idiots are ceding him power to shut it down, giving him the presumption of authority to do what he really has no legal power to do. A president can’t shut ANY business. And the doj investigating mass shootings would have no cause or power to shut it down, its operation is immaterial. It has no control over end users, and even if every murderer in the country used lake city ammo, the gov still would have no legal power or reason to shut them down. This is tyranny, enabled by… Read more »
Arizona said: “enabled by the moron da’s”
IMO, this is what has brought the whole world to the unfortunate position we find ourselves in. Too many morons that can’t even tell the difference between a man and a woman. My children figured this all out after our dog had a litter of puppies, when they were two and three. Today, grown adults can’t figure it out.
So-called grown adults anyway. With morons more ignorant than a three-year-old in charge, where else would we end up living but in the current insane asylum?
They should Remove the word Honorable from that letter.
There is Nothing Honorable about Joe “Brandon” Biden.
They should have addressed it “To the dementia-addled pedophile and influence peddling criminal currently occupying the People’s House”…
Tis VERY DISAPOINTING that “politicians” who SWOR an OATH to DEFEND Americans from ENEMIES, both Foreign AND Domestic, have shown American Citizens that these “politicians” are now active in the DOMESTIC ENEMY ENCAMPMENT!! What has happened to their FIDUCIARY DUTY, their HONOR, their SWORN OATH-OF-OFFICE? These Domestic ENEMIES are now acting the same as Hitler when he stated: What is a SIGNED TREATY? It is nothing but a piece of paper with ink on it!! These COMMUNISTIC ACTING POLITICIANS MUST BE FOREVER REMOVED FROM ANY AND ALL PUBLIC OFFICES!!
We all know the letter will be passed on to a blind guy, The writers of this article certainly knows that, We all should be encouraging Montana to ignore the feds..Texas is !..The Supremacy laws are only if the feds stay within the boundaries of the constitution
The plural form of Attorney General is Attorneys General.
Now I’ll just take my grammar-Nazi self off to the corner.
Yeah, I caught that right off. Lots of other errors in grammar too. I think the final assembly was done by an AI program.
Imagine another mass shooting and the brass picked up is all Lake City.
The perfect excuse to shut down the plant. They can’t do that you say ?
Seems to fit right into their efforts to weaken and destroy our country,our military, our freedom and our rights.
It’s hard to imagine a bunch of cross dressing trans officers and grunts complaining about ammo shortages much as long as they can still get their taxpayer funded surgery.
We the People should have our own, not government, ammunition plants. They could be militia run across the many states. They would commit the militia to organize and protect the plants. They would provide a local source of ammunition that is not subject to shutdown or transportation barriers. All of us could go visit and smile.
HLB
Of all the anti-2nd amendment steps taken in my life, the new war on ammo is the one that makes me fear the motives of those involved. It’s as if someone wants to do something that couldn’t be done if the people had the capacity to stand their ground for long. I hate to think that could happen here, but everywhere such things have ever happened before the people were genuinely surprised. At least they can’t take away my greatest weapon: praying to a God who loves me and hates evil.
I am all in with the prayer; but, as someone else noted recently, even David had to muster up the courage and the energy to bend over and pick up a rock.
What you have to understand is that Biden hates America. He sees it only as a means to line his own pockets and gain power. Period. All Democrats hate the America our ancestors struggled to build. Eviscerating our national defense is just another step in the process.
The letter starts off with;
“The Honorable Joseph R. Biden”
What a crock of s@#t!
Just an FYI – I believe the plural of “attorney general” is “attorneys general,” not “attorney generals”.
They aren’t interested in national security. All part of the plan
The Girl-Sniffer knows he’s in a lame duck situation and that he’s probably not going to be the Demonrats nominee. So there’s nothing holding him or his handler, the gay Kenyan, from puling out all the stops and doing as much damage as they can before November!
Attorneys General Call On Biden Administration To Protect Ammunition Plant
There. Fixed it for you.
Closing an established plant for the production of ammunition (which also likely supplies our military’s needs) isn’t the brightest idea of the Biden administration. But… who would be surprised? The article, and attached letter by several State AG’s is timely and on point.
So, how many of us have contacted our Federal Senators and Members of the H.o.R to suggest how really stupid the push at this time really is? The Biden administration says it wants to support Ukraine AND Israel… but it wants to close down munition plants. That’s really good coordination of policies, doncha think?
Lake City is not a commercial ammunition plant that contracts with DoD.It is owned by the Army and operated under contract by Winchester. It sells surplus production to defray costs and keep its workforce at full capacity.
Let the Communists close Lake City. I hope they do in fact. Let them harm national security, weaken domestic law enforcement and the military. The sooner the better the Communists starve the Army of munitions. Maybe such action will finally wake up Americans and show them depth of the Communist Deep State and their hatred for the American people. With this action by Biden Communists and the others working to disarm the civilian population, and the soon to ignite border battle between Texas Law Enforcement and the Communist Biden Regime one can only hope Civl War 2 ignites. Only then… Read more »
The only reason l your post is that nobody would notice that it was shut down, or even cared if it did. Besides l enjoy harassing and rubbing the libtards noses into showing how ignorant and stupid they really are.
Why not just throw your hands in the air and yell “I surrender” as loudly as you can? That’s in essence what you’re proposing.
Not at all am I proposing surrender. So far nothing the Communist Biden Regime has done to infringe on our rights has woken the sleeping giant. Nothing. Even the Supreme Court has failed to preserve our gun rights, notwithstanding cases like Heller and Bruen. So tell me wise man, have truely you read my comment ? I am suggesting that such action to stop Lake City from manufacturing ammunition might be the trigger needed to wake up America to the danger the Communist Biden Regime represents to our country. Hell, America remains asleep to open borders and illegal drug deaths.… Read more »
Jaque said: “Perhaps an Army short of munitions might wake up America.” Perhaps. We can hope, anyway. One thing I do certainly agree with; that only the awakening of the sleeping giant(the citizens of the US) can change things. And that the best we can each do, is to make an effort to wake them up. Despite the fact that many drowsy minds desire to stay asleep. Even Oldvet, who once said that this would change nothing, seems to agree. Although that original response has now been deleted. Assuming that it didn’t just get swallowed up by the memory hole,… Read more »
The real power is not the infighting government factions. The real power is the people; and they do need to wake up.
HLB
You reveal great insight and understand my message that America remains asleep to what is upon them. I contend Americans will remain in a stupor until they are faced with and existential threat to their liberties.
Oldvet said: “There would be no recovery for this country .”, in response to Jaque’s original post.
I’m left to assume by this, that in Oldvet’s opinion, even Civil War 2.0 in the US would not help us to recover from the illegal and unlawful regime currently in charge.
What I’d like to hear from Oldvet then, are his ideas on what he thinks might help us to recover from our illegal and unlawful occupation. How about it Oldvet? Any ideas at all that might help? Or is cutting down the opinions of others all you can think of?
OV, I don’t really think you pissed him off. He just spouts crap from dawn to dusk to try and prove that he knows it all and to get you into an argument to try and prove his superiority to us ‘common folk’. Much like Logician with no logic. I’m thinking that his life must be frustrating, especially with his own family. This is probably his only escape from the frustration his life really is.
He might be suffering from “glock leg syndrome”.
I doubt you pissed anyone off because of your exclusion. I, also, considered him a friendly, until he chose to lift above all other striker fired pistols the Glock, as being so unsafe that you will, above all else, sooner or later, shoot yourself. And this, from, a supposed, gunsmith. I cry, “Balderdash” on pretty much everything he has said, since.
What a flood of comments. I apologize for any affront that anyone might have taken by anything I said on this page. It was meant as a serious question, like; “what then might you believe to be the solution?”. And Oldvet stepped up to the plate and hit a home run! He mentioned “if they[which I take to mean all of us] don’t wake up”, and I could not agree more. Until the sleeping sheep awaken, nothing else anyone can do will matter. IMO, OFC. But it seems to also be Oldvets’, and numerous others here, as well. Once again,… Read more »