The facility in Lake City is the Lake City Army Ammunition Plant, owned by the US government but operated by Winchester Ammunition. It has always been a small a

The facility in Lake City is the Lake City Army Ammunition Plant, owned by the US government but operated by Winchester Ammunition. It has always been a small arms production site, mainly producing 5.56mm, 7.62mm, and .50. Under the terms of the management contract Winchester may sell the excess capability of the facility, outside what the military orders in any given year, on the civilian market. However the contract also states that military orders take priority and if there’s a big new order placed then those civilian sales contracts need to be paused or cancelled. This is done to preserve the large production lines outside of large US military orders. So the article is still wrong to include it, because it’s confusing two very different things: There’s no shortage of small arms ammunition, and what’s happening at Lake City is the system working as intended. There are also many facilities that can produce those calibres. It's easy. The issue with production is with large ammunition, like 155mm artillery shells, anti-tank missiles, etc that's much more difficult to produce than small arms ammunition and for which it takes much longer to spin up more capacity. Lake City is irrelevant in that context.