"Russia is the top exporter of ammunition to the U.S" ..2018 Artcle, LATimes.
Article: ThinkProgress, 2018
https://thinkprogress.org/nra-and-russian-cousin-18f607d40240/
Why has the NRA been cozying up to Russia?
The Right to Bear Arms in Moscow enjoys a close relationship with America’s leading gun-rights group.
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Article: LA Times, July 2018
https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-muggah-ammunition-regulation-20180326-story.html
Want to stop gun violence now? Regulate bullets
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There are far fewer producers of ammunition than there are producers of firearms. This makes the ammunition industry easier to regulate.
Because bullets are so widely available, people often wonder whether ammunition can be regulated at all. The answer is yes.
Most regulatory efforts today focus only on restricting access to guns, but this was not always the case.
The Gun Control Act of 1968 required all retailers to log ammunition sales and prohibited all mail-order purchases. (The restrictions were lifted two decades later by President Reagan’s Firearms Owners Protection Act.)
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What’s more,
there are far fewer producers of ammunition than there are producers of firearms, according to Small Arms Analytics, a research firm. This makes the ammunition industry easier to regulate.
The U.S. imports ammunition from more than 30 countries. Russia is the top exporter of ammunition to the U.S., according to Small Arms Analytics. Between 2012 and 2017, Russia supplied Americans with more than 4.7 billion rounds. Mexican companies supplied an additional 2.2 billion rounds during the same period.
These and other foreign suppliers can be taxed. Doing so will probably encourage more ammunition production in the U.S., which would be more easily subject to regulation
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Perhaps ammunition from Russia would be a Sanction worth imposing right now.
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