$263 Press Makes Politicians' Ammo Taxes Irrelevant

While legislators in a dozen states circle ammo with new tax schemes and import restrictions, thousands of gun owners have already opted out of the whole game. They reload. And the Lee Precision Six Pack Pro is the machine that makes it accessible to almost anyone.

The Six Pack Pro is a six-station progressive press. Every pull of the handle, once you're loaded and running, spits out a finished cartridge. That's the compounding math that turns a garage afternoon into thousands of rounds — at pennies apiece.

Street price: **$263 at Ammunition Depot.** The 9mm kit version runs $364. A comparable Dillon setup costs two to three times that. The gap between "I can afford this" and "I'll do it someday" just got a lot narrower.

The reviewer here isn't a YouTube hobbyist chasing affiliate clicks. He's a 50-year reloading veteran who has run a Lee single-stage, an RCBS Jr., a Lee turret, and a Dillon XL-750. When he calls the Six Pack Pro's performance "great," that word is doing real work.

One piece of hard-won advice he passes along, and it's worth hearing: **if you're brand new to reloading, start on a single-stage.** Learn case prep, seating depth, and powder charges before you run a progressive. A mistake on a single-stage costs you one cartridge. A mistake on a progressive can cost you a whole batch — or something far worse than money.

But if you already know what you're doing? A progressive press is one of the most tactically sound investments a self-reliant gun owner can make in 2026. Ammo shelves go empty. Prices spike. Politicians grandstand. None of that touches the guy with a press, a powder measure, and a stockpile of components.

**They can't confiscate your ability to make your own ammo. Yet.**

The Lee Six Pack Pro won't win a beauty contest against a Dillon. It doesn't need to. It needs to produce reliable, accurate rounds at a price point that puts ammo independence within reach of working gun owners — and by every account from someone who's been doing this since before most anti-gun legislators were born, it does exactly that.

Watch the ammo tax push in Illinois, New York, and California. Watch the import tariff games at the federal level. Then decide whether $263 looks expensive.