All the ammo in Wal Mart, Academy, etc. is gone.

!st person account: Why we have an Ammo Shortage

I stopped into Cabelas today. While checking out, I wasn't paying much attention to the guy in front of me until I heard the cashier say: "Your total is two thousand, two hundred forty six dollars and 87 cents.

So I looked at what he bought.

It was ALL .22 ammo. Cases and cases of it. Cabelas had just got a shipment in, after being out for quite a while. This guy bought all of the Federal 36gr. Hp that they got in. $20 a brick. All of it.
 
That is RIDICULOUS. I felt bad for buying a brick here and there, even though I rarely shoot my 22 anymore, I figure it's always good to have on hand, and hope to get a 22LR pistol soon, so it will come in handy. If I was a manager of a place and saw something like that, I would tell him to **** off and limit each person to 4 or 5 bricks. Depending on what the taxes are in your state, that's over 50k rounds. What a butthead.
 
I'd bet he is an opportunist with plans to resell for a profit. He may own a range, gun shop, or just set up at a gunshow. Heck he may end up trying to sell the rounds by the each online. Some of these profiteers are getting ridiculous with their asking prices.
 
Found a Source for all Ammo

I found a place that sells ammo of all kinds and calibers. Where is this place you ask? My local gun range. Sure its 16 dollars for a box of 50 American Eagle .9mm but its always there. They have some limit but I don't pay attention to that, I just want a few boxes for my hour and thats it. I'm tired of wading through the land cows in a Walmart only to be greeted by empty shelves. I don't stock pile, I only shoot two calibers , it works for me. Anyone else reside to just be robbed by the range man?
 
I haven't found an ammo vendor in the random desert outside Tucson AZ.

If I did, I'd be scared to shoot any...hell, I'd be scared period...

(True fact: the dirt road out to the area I shoot at has this big official sign up saying "this is a known smuggling corridor for drugs and illegal aliens". Ghaa. Good place to have TWO guns minimum, one to shoot and one open-carried loaded.)
 
Local Wal-Mart Restriction

I am so tired of ammo hunting and I am glad that Wal-Mart is finally doing something about large purchases.

I stopped by my local Walmart Super Center around 20:30 before I came into work last night, and their ammo shelf is empty as always, but I noticed that they have put up signs stated " 5 Boxes Per Day Per Customer".

I also noticed that their firearm display gallery is half empty, are they planning on phase out their FFL operation??

Since they have put up the restriction on ammo purchase, maybe I will have better luck getting some 40SW and 9mm next time.:mad:
 
We should definitely limit small shops to buying from distributors. It is totally unfair that they want to take advantage of the mass buying power of wal-mart and the other chains like the rest of us. If their distributor can't provide a product at all, or even at a better price than wal-marts retail they should just suck it up and go out of business.
As an added benefit we can all complain about how we go to their shops and they don't have any ammo and it is so ridiculous. After that we could all say what a shame it is that they went out of business after everyone stopped checking their shelves and because they had nothing to sell anyways.

I am glad my local stores are buying up at least some of the ammo. I walked into one last night and bought a box of nice 357 at a reasonable price. If I go in tonight I expect to be able to do the same. Tired of wasting time driving around everywhere looking.

Not saying I do not walk by the ammo counter every time I am in Wal-mart.
 
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This "ammo shortage" is going to collapse as soon as shooters realize that the sky is not falling and then a lot of these scalpers are going to be stuck with thousands of dollars worth of ammo that they are going to have to sell below cost to get rid of it when the inevitable ammo glut follows.

Think about it, everybody is panic buying ammo and the factorys are cranking it out as fast as they can but it's not like you have to reserve a spot at the shooting range because everybody is shooting.

Once the panic cools off, store shelves will be stocked again and that will help cool off the panic more and since everybody already has enough ammo for the next decade or so, I predict an ammo glut and deep discounts.
 
B.L.E., that MAY happen if the economy picks up strongly. I suspect that it will be a while before that happens. But, no doubt, if it happens within two years or so, many shooters, store owners will be "upside down" if they continue to purchase in the manner that they currently are. And why wouldn't they? They will run clean over the cliff...
 
Perhaps, in a backhanded compliment, there will be less pressure to ban certain rifles - but that is based upon the ASSUMPTION that they believe those types of equipment are truly somehow maniacally bad. I don't believe they believe that...

Either way a day will come when they have to move their inventories when there will be less money chasing the product and the price will inevitably fall (assuming there is a market for it at all. Hint: One cannot eat them).
 
Think about it, everybody is panic buying ammo and the factorys are cranking it out as fast as they can but it's not like you have to reserve a spot at the shooting range because everybody is shooting.
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It does not take a whole lot more shooting to put a kink in the ammo supply. And keep in mind there are shooting schools popping up almost on every corner these days and they have a lot of students going through 500 or 1000 rounds in a weekend.

Add in a little minor hoarding and you can easily have a shortage.

I'd bet he is an opportunist with plans to resell for a profit. He may own a range, gun shop, or just set up at a gunshow. Heck he may end up trying to sell the rounds by the each online. Some of these profiteers are getting ridiculous with their asking prices.
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What an awful thing. A guy making a buck by selling a legal product to willing customers. If the price was truly ridiculous, there would not be many customers buying it.
 
shops are making huge profits. If they are smart in managing their profits now, being "upside down" for a short while when this economy rights itself will not be much of a problem. As to those hoarding it in their closets, I doubt many of them will be in any hurry to offload it. Some will start selling as the economy turns, but they will be slow about it and many will just SHOOT DOWN their cache.
 
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I prefer to think the price isn't going to come down any time soon. Not with enviromental regulations, new corporate taxes, unions, etc. Since when has the price of anything gone down? Deflation excluded...but that's usually a temporary condition. Besides...the way the economy is currently(without projecting anything), i'm almost positive i will make less money next year, than i did last year.

Sooo....I shot a box of 50 Remington 380 the other day from 2001 marked 7.99, bought in a local high priced small shop, back then I had most likely paid about 2 bux more than a large retailer would have asked. I always shoot my oldest ammo first, so while you are searching out ammo currently...where is my thinking flawed?

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Mr. Helms obviously did his hoarding back in '41 and is STILL shooting down his cache so he has no worries
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I think he's hoarding the ammo and financing it with the overtime pay he gets for merging ammo threads. Once he gets the market cornered....

Nelson Bunker "Bud" Helms. :)
 
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