Ammo shortage over???

Good to hear the ammo situation is easing up elsewhere but not here in eastern Ohio. Walmart still has bare shelves but the 2 local small gun stores have a bigger supply of ammo than a few months ago, prices a little inflated but not terrible. Primers are what is missing from the picture almost entirely though powder is showing up in more variety now.

Joe
 
sorry to nitpick, but increased demand does not lead to an increase in supply. not in capitalism as i know it. increased demand leads to higher prices. in fact, in most cases it's optimal for a savvy capitalist to walk the line between discouraging too many buyers, and increasing supply sufficiently to warrant reducing prices. only when demand tapers off, because of market saturation, will supply increase and prices subsequently decline.
 
Last evening I was talking to a friend that was about to head into WM and I told him to pick me up some 9mm....I'd found it 1 time this YEAR, he called a few minutes later and he'd bought me two boxes. I can find 223 and 7.62 at any of the three wm I go to almost every trip. I can buy all the over priced ammo I want at gun shops these days. I've even been able to turn down 22 ammo 3 or 4 times here lately at Wally world.
 
Joe Bob's got 30,000 rounds of 9mm sitting in the living room.

Joe Bob's ready for the Huns/Zombies/Secular Humanists. Joe Bob's wife really wishes he'd move it downstairs, as it's a rather awkward subject come bridge night.

Funny thing is, Joe Bob shoots 100 rounds a year. Joe Bob has 300 years worth of ammo. He doesn't have to buy any more.

Therefore, the Wal Mart sporting goods manager doesn't have to worry about Joe Bob hovering over his shoulder every morning at 7:00AM when the deliveries arrive. Which is good, because the Wal Mart manager really likes to have his coffee at that hour.

It's good for those of us who shoot, because we can actually get ammo.

I think the first sign was when primers started appearing on shelves again. I'd heard that the reason manufacturers weren't sending them out was because they were having to use everything they had in-house to produce loaded ammunition.

We are, however, left with two significant problems. First, people are conditioned to pay outrageous prices on ammunition. It's like thinking $3.00/gallon gas was great last winter.

Second, the milsurp appears to have been gobbled up during all this mess. I can't find certain (non-military) calibers to save my life...
 
It's not over here.

Wal-Mart had virtually no ammo when I looked there today, and they haven't had any since zero was elected.

A few days ago, my local toy store had a bit of ammo. The only .22 LR ammo they had was Rem Thunderbolts at $3.30/50. $33.00 a brick for the equivalent of bulk ammo seems pretty high to me. I'm glad I have lots of .22 ammo.

The toy store still had no primers, and the owner is pretty good about looking and finding things like that. No new powder, and very few bullets for loading. I'm glad I'm stocked up on that stuff, too.

I'm a handloader, and I've kept a decent supply of components and ammo on hand since way back in the 1970's. I'm glad I have, even though I've really never needed it until now.

Seems to me that some non-perishable food stuff might be a good thing to stock up on, considering how fast ammunition disappeared.

Daryl
 
I have seen quite a bit online (i buy 762/9mm/545/556) and prices are coming down steadily

havent made the trip to wal-mart recently to see stocks or pricing as i have quite a bit at home

seems like people are broke and stockpiled so prices are easing
 
It's still near impossible to find 9mm ammo at Walmarts here in Northern KY. I called 9 local walmarts last week, and only one had any 9mm (300 rounds). Of course it was the one furthest from my house. I've called the ones closer to my work every morning this week (best time of day to find it in stock employees told me), and they haven't had any. I'm down to 50 rounds of FMJ and one box of Hornady Critical Defense.
 
Back to the same old thing in Tucson - nothing anywhere for more than a day or so. It comes in and gets rushed and it's gone like a shot...no pun.

Pretty sick and tired of this bull crap,
Oly
 
Perhaps not over but definitely ammo is finding its way onto store shelves and available through on-line retailers. I managed to find 700 rounds of .22 Mini-Mag at $6.39 per 100 at an on-line site. Sure it's nearly double what it was but the 10 or 15 other on-line sites I checked had none. The local Bi-mart which previously had nothing now carried UMC 9mm bulk in 250 packs for about $49, they also had a fairly decent supply of .45, and .22 Mini-Mags for $5.99 per 100. A local gun shop had cases of .22 Mini-Mag ammo priced at $9.95 per 100. This is nearly 3 times the normal price. I will take my business elsewhere because of this out right gouging.
 
We've got plenty of rifle ammo and ball handgun ammo (WWB and the like) available. But premium JHP handgun ammo is still hard to find or ridiculously expensive.
 
Well about two weeks ago the walmart near me had 9mm. This was at 3-4 in the afternoon. So the crazed ammo buyers (at least near me) must not be picking it up right when it comes in. The Walmart near me gets ammo every night. They said it was just getting purchased as soon as it was on the shelves. However it is now sitting a bit longer.
 
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