A question and an observation...

- a few years ago (3?) there were several shooting magazine accounts of a new ammo facility preparing to open in Texas by Rio to produce millions of shotshells annually. Any idea if this happened or still will?
- I had a genuinely kind old shooting buddy who after an appropriate time would contact widows after the death of their shooter husbands to see if they needed to dispose of surplus firearms. He'd offer fair prices for good guns that the family didn't want. These days it might be even more valuable to similarly scavenge ammo and components, and sometimes before anyone departs but just retires from the sports. A few years ago an aging friend of mine sold me all the lead shot I wanted for $10/bag.