Vet-Owned Capital Armament: Ammo Spikes Set to Continue

By Robert Farago

Despite the recent influx of once-scarce ammo into the sales pipeline, Clinton Gerner reckons the ammo industry has not yet begun to fight. “It’s not just bad events and anti-2A politics that’s driving demand,” the Army vet and Chief Executive of Capital Armament Co. asserts. “There’s been a huge explosion in the shooting sports and serious training for both average shooters and professionals. You’ll see more spikes and lulls in the future, but the general [ammo demand] trend will remain upwards.” CapArms is putting its money where it’s mouth is . . .

The ammo maker’s opening a 28.5k square foot facility in Sibley, Iowa. In the town of just 2,798 souls (up two in ten years) CapArms will soon produce small batches of high-quality ammo, much of it along the same lines as Winchesters ballistically-matched Train & Defend line.

“We released ours first,” Gerner told TTAG. That said, he reckons Winchester and CapArms won’t be alone in this concept going forward.

“When you’re in competition shooting ammo that’s as much as five or six inches off target because it’s not the same as your training ammo, you quickly see the benefit of matched training and competition …read more

Via:: Truth About Guns