Primer manufacturing- Why not ?

[Emri]

It seems as if the ultra high demand for primers will not end soon. Maybe I am wrong but it would seem that these little things that have no moving parts, and have been made since before the turn of the last century could be made in large numbers by many small manufacturers instead of a few large ones. Why dont we have a hundred small manufacturers of primers ?
We have micro breweries, micro vinyards, even low production distilleries for bourbon. We have more manufacturers of weed eater string than primers and powder. The boom of firearms, and ammo businesses is a case study of free market capitolism. Where are the entrapenures with start up manufacturing of high demand products ? What would it take for me to start making primers ?

So if it has been covered, excuse me. The answer(s) to your question are....

1- Product Liability Insurance. It's expensive.

2- Explosive Licenses for the components used.

3- Time and Expense to test the product for consistancy and develop Loading Data for using your brand of primer.

4- There is plenty more to consider for starting up a new manufacturing enterprise; machinery, tooling, employees, etc. NOT easy to do and takes time. By then maybe there will be no market for your product.

A good example is the AR-15 market. For 8 months they were hard to get and when we got one it sold. Now we have 6 in stock and when I check the store email daily ALL of our distributors are telling me how many they have and offering special pricing to take them off their hands. The fire has gone out on that market.

FWIW,

Emri

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[Dave]

and the 'fire' will soon go out of the primer market and be back to normal. Otherwise the present makers would just expand operations.