From: Jeff Shultz 

Randall Parker wrote:

> Why does it take so long to scale up? What sort of capital equipment is
> involved? Any one know?
>
> Or is the bottleneck in making the powder?
>
> In WWII the US ramped up a lot more quickly. Surely the capital equipment
> could be built more quickly.

The problem is probably one of scaling up "practically" - yeah,
you could probably have every factory on the corner pumping out 5.56 Nato,
but it would cost a ton and as soon as they got the supply up there would
be a nice crash as all those factories went back offline...

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Jeff Shultz

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