Selling Ammo

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I've been selling some of my extra ammo to my friend who owns our local gun shop.
He has treated me well in the past so I figure it's my turn to help him a bit.
He needs some ammo on his shelves to keep customers coming in.
I can still make a handsome profit on my unneeded ammo while helping my LGS stay in business during tough times. It's a win for everyone.
 
Reloads?
Hope you got a license to produce ammo........if so, more power to you. If not, I'd remove this post.
 
Our local gun shop manager sold some of his ammo through his store early in the ammo scare. He made a few dollars, the store kept stocked shelves for a few weeks, and the customers were happy to buy ammunition at a slightly elevated but fair price.
 
People don't realize that right now it's just as difficult for dealers to buy ammo as it is for us common folk to find it.
I don't mind taking a few dollars less than the current scalper price to help a friend stay in business. He needs the customer draw.
It'll pay off for everyone in the long run.
 
I made a post earlier this week, about swapping 6 boxes of factory ammo for a Baikal side by side 12 gauge. Best part of it was, it helped my buddy who runs the LGS make a little money, and made a couple of his customers happy as well. And, I have already loaded and replaced what I swapped off. Truth be told, if I had any more ammo to part with I'd likely let it go right now. I think the OP made a good decision.

Mac
 
I don’t have a 380 anymore so I listed the 426 rounds I had left over on GB for a penny start price. It sold to the high bidder for $286. I was happy and so was he. He got what he wanted and I made a few bucks. But I could have never with a clear conscience have asked that much straight out. I let the market set the final price.

But I have no more to sell. I have gave away 800 9mm rounds, 3000 22 rounds and 400 shotgun rounds and am glad I had the extra to spare.
 
I had three of my customers come in independently early last summer and each offered me several 50-round boxes of Factory New 9X19mm Luger Ammo when none was commercially available. All three said something along the lines of: "Just replace it when it is again available." I was touched by their loyalty and unsolicited help both for me and for other customers in need. They helped a number of people out of a tight spot with their generosity, and I had a box or two to sell to new gun buyers as I sold out my remaining 9mm Pistols.

Since then supply has gotten worse, and I traded calibers or shared the profits of current price sales of the 9mm with two of them. The third said he didn't care how long it takes to replace his - he has plenty and hardly shoots anymore.
 
ThomasT said:
...I could have never with a clear conscience have asked that much straight out. I let the market set the final price.
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Auctions are about the best, and about the only, way to make that work. And online auctions create a truly nationwide market place. Currently, sellers have customers competing for scarce resources, but a year ago, you wouldn't see ammo at auction because the conditions were reversed; can you imagine how cheap ammo would have been 1-2 years ago and the only place to buy was at auction? Tons of sellers with few bidders? As opposed to a set retail price tag?
 
I dont actually have much factory ammo around here. Basically two boxes for each firearm should I decide to sell them. Otherwise it is all reloads and rimfire. To me it made much more sense to lay in components instead of loaded ammo.
 
There hasn't been a "free hand" in the general gun market in decades... or more. Just for something to point at, I count the banning of sending firearms by mail as the start of the hundreds of successive "choke points" to eliminate the circulation of firearms.

But the anti-gun strategy goes far beyond just reclassifying things as "hazmats," and the like, thus increasing their cost and availability.

It also involves things like making vast areas of land parks and primitive areas and monuments and preserves and other good and noble things which everyone applauds... but which incidentally prohibit use of firearms.

It's not a big deal to most people. Except to you and me, it's part of the ongoing slow process of choking off use of firearms.

It's a long, slow, insidious process which encompasses far more than private sales of ammunition. The market forces there include the high suspicion that the current government and its "bully pulpit" will in fact do everything it can to shut down civilian commerce in anything firearms related.

That's not a "free market," influenced by raw material shortages or fads, or anything but fear.

Some might be due to the increased demand in firearms, but even that is not influenced by "free market forces."

There is no free market. It is a fear market.
 
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230RN said:
There hasn't been a "free hand" in the general gun market in decades... or more. Just for something to point at, I count the banning of sending firearms by mail as the start of the hundreds of successive "choke points" to eliminate the circulation of firearms.

But the anti-gun strategy goes far beyond just reclassifying things as "hazmats," and the like, thus increasing their cost and availability.

It also involves things like making vast areas of land parks and primitive areas and monuments and preserves and other good and noble things which everyone applauds... but which incidentally prohibit use of firearms.

It's not a big deal to most people. Except to you and me, it's part of the ongoing slow process of choking off use of firearms.

It's a long, slow, insidious process which encompasses far more than private sales of ammunition. The market forces there include the high suspicion that the current government and its "bully pulpit" will in fact do everything it can to shut down civilian commerce in anything firearms related.

That's not a "free market," influenced by raw material shortages or fads, or anything but fear.

Some might be due to the increased demand in firearms, but even that is not influenced by "free market forces."

There is no free market. It is a fear market.
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You make some good points and I’ll add one I believe not too many understand, we started losing RKBA after we lost our constitutional money.
 
Bottom Gun said:
Who said anything about reloads? I sell factory ammo because I prefer shooting my reloads.
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My answer was an attempt to be helpful, you did not mention it was factory ammo you were selling either. Any time we see a demand for ammo come about there are a few reloaders looking to cash in by selling their reloads without the knowledge they need a license to produce ammo with the intent to sell it.
 
Somebody buying up all the available stock at Walmart in the morning and re-listing it that afternoon on AL for 3x the price is price gouging.

Someone who has extra ammo in their cabinet at home, who normally wouldn't have ever sold but either wants a little extra cash or just wants to alleviate some of the pain out there isn't really price gouging. They're actually adding more ammo into the flow right now and potentially hurting the flippers.
 
Gougers, and I'm in no way saying that's what the OP did, arise from a super-heated market; they don't create it.
As long as the general public keeps buying ammo at a rate faster than it can be resupplied, this situation will continue regardless whether individuals sell some or all of their ammo.
Also, you might as well get just as mad at the people paying those "gougers" the exorbitant prices. It is they who are setting the ceiling on prices.
 
So sad! We are fighting amongst ourselves about the reasons of a fear induced panic pertaining to firearms. The multitude of laws we all allowed to stifle our rights over a long time one bite at a time and the current uncertainty of more of the same got us here. Look at CA laws for the future of us all unless there is a massive blowback. Yep, so sad. MHO
 
Its a shame that this discussion has taken the turn it has. The OP did what he felt was right, and fair. I did the same, and so don't blame him. No one who has done the same can be accused of gouging, etc. If anything, it is an opportunity for some "poor" folks to get a good deal on ammo. IBTL

Mac
 
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