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On Earth, there is estimated to be approximately 639 million guns in the possession of both military forces and civilians. The international market for Usel technologies is vast.
Information presented below, reflecting the magnitude of the potential market for this technology in the United States only, has been segregated into three categories:
U.S. Military
General Dynamics has recently been awarded a five-year contract to supply small-caliber ammunition to the U.S. armed forces. The award for the contract is $171 million for approximately 300 million rounds. The total contract potential value is approximately $1.2 billion for 2.1 billion rounds over five years (400-500 million rounds per year). This contract represents approximately 20% of the $1 billion annual U.S. market for small caliber ammo {.223cal (5.56mm), .308cal (7.62mm), and .50 cal (12.5mm)}.
General Dynamics is filing emergency small-caliber ammunition orders with a team of domestic and international partners to meet the U.S. government growing demands. This quick response will equate to approximately 500 million rounds per year. This team supporting general dynamics ordnance includes Olin Corporation's Winchester Division; SNC Technologies Inc. of Canada; Israel Military Industries Ltd. (IMI); General Dynamics Santa Barbara Systems in Madrid Spain.
The US Department of Defense has stockpiled approximately $80 billion worth of ammunition. This is equivalent to approximately 3 million tons taking up to approximately 38 million square feet of storage space. The cost of warehousing and handling this stockpile is estimated to be approximately $80 million per year.
U.S. Law Enforcement
There are currently over 18,000 Law Enforcement Agencies in the USA. The marketing skills developed by selling to the Military will transfer to the expansion into the Law Enforcement market. Statistics detailing the number of rounds consumed per year is not currently available.
U.S. Civilian Market
The quantity of ammunition consumed annually by the civilian and hunting market (approximately 9 billion rounds) far exceeds the US military consumption of approximately 2 billion rounds.
American Firearm, the professional gun retailers association, reports that there are approximately 200 million firearms in the possession of approximately 60-65 million gun owners in the USA. In the early 1990's there were approximately 250,000 Federally Licensed Firearm Dealers. The US hunting association reports a combined revenue between all states of approximately $550,000,000 annually in hunting license fees. Recreational shooting is a very large market for this technology as it provides hunters with greater accuracy, no residue in chamber or barrel (20,000 shots without cleaning), cheaper ammo, half the weight, and no brass casing issues. The US civilian market includes the purchase of approximately 3 million guns per year.
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