While i am not the sharpest tack in the pack sometimes i fail to see the reasoning behind canceling commercial cartridges that are NOT used for the military..unless Lapua is taking all the brass and using it to build military brass. Follow the money...there is more to this than meets the eye..
Bill
Much of the suspended brass is very close to military cartridges so it would be safe to assume the production equipment could be utilized with different forming dies to make military cartridges:
Equipment that makes .222 brass can make 5.56 brass
Equipment used for .308- based cartridges and .250 Savage based cartridges (260, 7mm08, 22-250, 6mm Creedmoor, etc) can make 7.62 NATO brass
Also, some of the cartridges suspended (e.g., 7.62x53R) are similar to Soviet/Eastern Bloc military cartridges that undoubtedly are still in use by the Ukrainians and possibly to some extent by former Eastern Bloc NATO countries that certainly are preparing to defend themselves from Putin.
