Ammo Shortage Explained by a CCI rep

[skoro]

Definitely panic buying

I too have seen some whacky ammo purchases. I just buy an extra box or two of the stuff I use the most when I can find it, so I can keep a few hundred rounds on hand.

I think ammo prices are spiking and I don't want to be holding thousands of rounds of the all-time most expensive stuff ever made. I expect it will become sane again in the next few months.

 

[maksim]

I would imagine that the 22lr is avail as the majority of the panic buying would be coming from those new or newer to the sport.

What do they buy? What they see on Tv, 45acp, 40s&w, 9mm, 762x39

I went to a gun store yesterday, a guy came in with a magazine with an ak47 on it. since not legal in nj... he saw a WASR-10. ended up buying it for $1k.

I paid $250 for my wasr a few years ago. I would gladly sell it for 1k. Talk about people being nuts.

Only thing taking out to shoot now is the 22lr. When making holes in paper... who cares. Besides... nice to have great groupings at 20 yards... when you have new people shooting 40sw that cant group for anything at 5 yards. =)

 

[Duke of Doubt]

I found a tin of 380 rounds of 8mm Mauser down in a corner of the ammo cellar the other day -- forgot I even had it. Put it up back in 2000, and I figure it's mellowed enough to take it out to the range with the Persian M98/29 -- should knock some coffee cans off the posts at the 200 yard berm. Can't wait to hear all the complaints from the .223 Full Noisemaker crowd about how expensive ammo has become lately.

 

[Buck Snort]

Posted by Hungry Seagull:
"Now, Aluminum Coils consumed at Busch in Williamsburg are eaten very quickly with hundreds of cans made with each punch of the machines."

I work in the can business, I'd have to see it to believe it.
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[jerkface11]

Is CCI affiliated with Winchester/Olin? Or is her last name a coincidence?

 

[zminer]

I suspect it's a coincidence, seeing as the person who answered was not a VP or anything, just a service rep. CCI's website says they're associated with Speer, but says nothing about Winchester.

 

[outerlimit]

Too many chicken littles running around buying insane amounts of ammunition and components because they think it's going to be all gone. Their very actions are the ones causing the shortage.

Yup, I'm hoping, not predicting, but hoping that six months to a year from now there is an ammo glut because of these nimrods who are falling over themselves to buy a 500rd case of .45 auto or .223 for $350 or more.

The gunshop owners and ammo dealers are more than happy to fan the flames of hysteria. If I see one more gun advertisement with a picture of Obama... :banghead:

 

[kludge]

I stock up when republican are in office. The last time I bought a bunch of ammo was when I saw that the republicans were going to lose the house...

Turns out I bought at just the right time.

 

[Guns and more]

I blame three factors.
1. Gun sales have grown exponentially. For whatever reason.
2. Ammo prices are predicted to rise, thus making people want to buy now.
3. People fear, rightly or not, that ammo will be banned, and want to have enough.

 

[outerlimit]

The price of stuff rises over time. When people decide to stop giving their paychecks to the ammo dealers, this non-sense will stop. In the time being, I have more important things to do with my money than buy more ammo.