beginning to get smelly?

[returningfire]

I read on some forum this morning that pawn shop employees were hitting all the chain stores that sold ammo before they went in to the pawn shop to work.
They would buy everything and take it to the pawn shop to be marked up X3, and it would still be bought up. If you find it cheap buy it, just don't feed the fire. If you are completely out, you may have to pay premium price but only buy minimum supply.
Create a small group of friends and if the SHTF agree that all will share or trade ammo. There is strength in numbers. Just don't buy into the feeding frenzy stuff.

I live in the country and used to shoot all the time. It is real quite at my house since last fall cause I don't know if I can replace it if I shoot it all up.

This is just my opinion, you do what you want cause I can't guarantee that the price of ammo will ever come back down. But I have noticed that more people are now trying to sell their 22 online instead of sitting on it waiting to make a killing. Maybe that is a good sign.

 

[Chuck53]

In my opinion this is going to be just like gas has been. Everybody freaks out when the price gets to $4 and thinks they have found a good deal when it's $3.25! We all know it shouldn't be that expensive but we have been groomed to accept a higher price and the companies that put it out get comfortable with a higher profit margin. It's a business when you get down to the nuts and bolts of it.

 

[Unistat]

Get out from in front of the computer and look around.

Stores are getting ammo weekly. It goes within the hour at most places, or it's marked way up. There's no conspiracy, there's nothing fishy. It's idiots buying everything, and perpetuating the panic.

Except it's not "idiots." It's people just looking to get a box of ammo and go to the range for some practice and a good time. If Wal-Mart gets in 3 boxes of .40 S&W, I'm going to buy all 3, one for me and the other two for friends with .40s so we can all go shoot and have a good time.

Stop with the name calling.

 

[Steel Talon]

My .02cents on this subject

Shortages of bulk materials needed to produce cartridges aren’t occurring at the point of manufacture. They are getting what they need.

For instance.. CCI (per their statements) makes 4 MILLION 22lr bullets each day of the work week.. (4x5=20 million x 4 weeks = 80 million x12 = 960 million units) I don’t believe that this daily production number has dropped due to our current state of needs.

960 million units per year

So basically, CCI makes ^^^ its product daily, for arguement sake ..CCI sends out daily 4million units in various packages, to the the distributers who then in turn, get it to the point of sale people. To where we buy it. Are we buying up 20 million units a week of CCI 22LR ? (Not including the other manufacturers.) My practical side of myself says no way in hades.

What’s driving the "shortages" is capitalism taking advantage of a panic. Slow the availability to a "trickle" increase prices times X amount to make more money. Run the cash cow as far as possible until the panic subsides start returning to normal.

 

[nelsonal]

Steel,
960million rounds sounds like a lot (and is), but its only 20 million boxes. How many .22lr chambered guns are out there do you suppose? I'd be shocked if the number were less than 50 million (roughly one in every six US firearms). Presuming the US gets all their production, that's a single box per gun every other year. If all the owners wanted a 3 box stockpile it would take half a decade at that production level to accomplish it (without any shooting).
Now granted, some portion of the guns are safe queens, lost in attics etc. But at the same time a good number of .22 owners would like to put a box through their gun every week.

 

[Inebriated]

Except it's not "idiots." It's people just looking to get a box of ammo and go to the range for some practice and a good time. If Wal-Mart gets in 3 boxes of .40 S&W, I'm going to buy all 3, one for me and the other two for friends with .40s so we can all go shoot and have a good time.

Stop with the name calling.

If people would pass on it just for a couple weeks, ammo would build back up in the stores and things would return to normal so you can buy a box before the range. But no. Hardly anybody bothered to buy and stock ammo when it was available, despite the MANY panics that gun owners have seen. They know WalMart gets maybe 10 boxes of any given caliber per week, yet the majority of people still insist on buying a box before the range. But what happens when it's not there? They complain, then they buy ALL of it when they do see it.

I stand by my statement.

 

[Al Thompson]

PSA had plenty of .22LR Federal 525 bulk pack yesterday, probably sold out tonight as limit was one case per person.

Not a conspiracy, just folks catching up.