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Originally Posted by ArchAngelCD
ATK and the sub-division Vista Outdoors owns Federal, Speer, CCI, Blazer, Bushnell, Outters, Hoppes, Weaver, RCBS, Alliant Powders and dozens of others. ATK runs their acquisitions as wholly owned subsidiaries.
CCI and Federal primers are not made in the same factory that i know of. They do however support their businesses like using Speer bullets in their Aliiant load data and the like.
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When I was working with both CCI and Federal on ammunition development over 10 years ago, each had separate primer production. But I had understood that the manufacturing technology was much the same. I was more familiar with Federal's procedures as we were working on lead-free primer development, and I spent a lot of time on the Federal primer manufacturing line.
Back then, Federal was doing a lot of farm-out work for the Army's Lake City AAP (also operated by ATK) loading M80 Ball 7.62x51mm NATO ammunition in LC cases. So they keep everything in the family.