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If Copper Really Goes to $10 a Pound, Ammo Will Feel It

Read the copper headlines and you’ll hear about data centers, EVs, and grid wire. Fair enough. Those uses swallow metal by the trainload. What doesn’t make the bank notes is the small, stubborn pile of copper sitting in every brass-cased cartridge. Cartridge brass is roughly 70 percent copper. Jacketed bullets are copper over a lead […]