The only reason anyone in the US ever cared about 7.62x39 was that it was basically free to shoot.

You tell people that the $5/box stuff is gone forever and what you can get, if you can even get any, is approaching $1/rd they are absolutely not interested. And that's FMJ crap. Anything "high performance" would have had limited audience even if blaster-crap was still cheap. Now...Forget it. Nobody's gonna make it because there's no market for $30/box x39.

What we need instead is a state-side plant shoveling shitty steel cased crap out the door as cheap as possible, but that's probably not gonna happen either.