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The Lone Star Army Ammunition Plant was a 15,546-acre (62.91 km 2) government-owned, contractor-operated facility 12 miles west of Texarkana, Texas that was established in 1942. The land was purchased from local citizens through Eminent Domain by the United States Department of Defense .
The Longhorn Army Ammunition Plant (LOW) was a 8,493-acre (34.37 km 2) government-owned, contractor-operated (GOCO) facility in Karnack, Texas that was established in 1942. The Monsanto Chemical Company selected the site in December 1941 to produce TNT. [1] The plant produced 393,000,000 pounds of TNT throughout World War II. [2]
[12] [13] Chris Metz, Vista Outdoor's chief executive officer, said of Remington's ammunition plant in Arkansas that "during the bankruptcy the plant was functioning at about 10% capacity before Vista Outdoor took over." [14] In April 2021, Remington Ammunition announced that its Arkansas plant was back to running 24/7 at full capacity. [15]
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1998) Headstamp of a .50 caliber cartridge casing made at the Lake City Army Ammunition Plant in 1943 and recovered from the Sahuarita Bombing and Gunnery Range in 2012. Lake City Army Ammunition Plant (LCAAP) is a 3,935-acre (15.92 km 2) U.S. government-owned, contractor-operated facility in northeastern Independence, Missouri.
The Texas factory began operations in 2015 loading locally manufactured shotgun shells with smokeless powder, wads, primers, and shot manufactured in Vitoria-Gasteiz. [4] The labor pool for the Texas manufacturing site includes skilled personnel formerly employed at the nearby Longhorn Army Ammunition Plant closed in 1997. [ 5 ]
May 19—A firearms ammunition company is planning to move its headquarters to Huntsville and invest more than $12 million in the area. Zinc Point Manufacturing, which produces small caliber ...
JMC provides bombs and bullets to America's fighting forces – all services, all types of conventional ammo from 2,000-pound bombs to rifle rounds. JMC manages plants that produce more than 1.6 billion rounds of ammunition annually and the depots that store the nation's ammunition for training and combat.