Ammo Shortage

From the sources where I get my ammo selection and availability is going down and prices are going up like a Saturn V rocket whether I'm buying from mail order or off the shelf!! I have been buying whatever I can still get my hands and still get for a reasonable price, both FMJ practice ammo and anything that I consider good carry ammo!!!!
 
It's an ammo bubble. Just wait a couple of months. Folks will be unloading all that unnecessary ammo they've been hoarding-- for pennies on the dollar.
 
H.R 45

Paraniod or not take a look at www.govtrack.us and look uo H.R.45, Blair Holt Firearm Licensing and Record of Sale act of 2009. They are already proposing a required federal license for all firearms...is that step #1?
 
It seems to but mostly handgun ammo, but if you have a Taurus Judge, you have the option of 410 shot shells also. 000 has 3, 38 caliber balls. Run out and buy all the ammo you can, it won't go bad and you'll use it anyway.
 
I'm not worried about all the bills that they propose because it just gets people stressed out and the NRA and others shoot down the bills and they never pass. Once they make something law then I'll be worried.

Ever since I've started reloading I've never bought any factory ammo, ever. I buy bulk brass online, just bought 2000 45 ACP once fired brass. Let me tell you, that's a ton of brass! Got it for about $100 and I can load it up with my cast bullets for about $90 (and that's all 2000 rounds!). And I can reload over and over many many times. Why would I ever buy any more 45 ACP or buy factory ammo? If I wanted more I'd buy the brass and load it up myself for next to nothing. I've loaded up about 1000 rounds of that 45 ACP and the savings have paid for all of my reloading eqipment, now it's just icing on the cake! I go out in the back woods and can shoot about a hundred rounds, gather up my brass and reload it, so simple not sure why eveyone is doing this instead of buying that expensive factory ammo.
 
Why would anyone buying ammo to stockpile it simply get rid of it in a few months? Heck, if ammunition prices drop substantially I will just buy more and have a bigger stock pile. I am not buying ammunition as an investment I am buying it to have on hand for plinking, target shooting, hunting and self defense.
 
I've got all kinds of faith in the NRA, but the way that stimulus bill got jammed through, I wonder how effective the gun lobby as a whole is going tobe.
 
"Man thats what I was thinking. Soon ammo is going to be so expensive that everyone is going to have to reload..."

and cast there own too, that's why there is no ammo shortage at my place.
 
ammo shortage

Years a go johny carson said there will be a toilet paper shortage .next day there was . ammo mfg.need time to catch up .if people buy sensibly we will all have some.i live with huricanes each year buy with moderation not fear:D
 
I remember Johnny Carson's comment. My wife and I had hoped to buy a house way back then. One house we looked at had 4 closets full of toilet paper and paper towels. Can't ever forget that.
 
I understand "stocking up", but hoarding hundreds of thousands of rounds just because you can screws it up for everyone. It's the ones stocking up that dont even shoot on a regular basis that I have the biggest problem with.
 
I remember in the early 70's when we had Jimmy Carter, Fuel Shortage, and Hostages to fret about.
There was constant, daily talk of everything going to hell, and people were buying up the "survival kits" that were being marketed that contained months of food rations and other stuff.

I didn't buy into the panic then and I don't buy into the panic now. I'm not going to let a nation of fearful people carry me along with them.

Stocked up?... I already was a long time ago, and I simply rotated my stock and bought new to replace old, shot up, stock.
But these days, I'll just wait for sanity to return.
It took 10 years for sanity to return after the 1984 AWB was passed, and it may take some time this time around. But this national hoarding thing where Walmart can't keep any stock on the shelves for more than a day is just plain silly.
 
CDH wrote:
...this national hoarding thing where Walmart can't keep any stock on the shelves for more than a day is just plain silly.
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Ya think? :rolleyes:

Let's see how much sense it makes to hoard--turning your home into an ammo dump no fire-fighting crew in their right minds will go anywhere near, tying your cash up and and helping keep the price of ammo artifically high.

Let's say you shoot 200 rounds once-a-week. (That's way conservative for many shooters, but way more than casual shooters do.) That's 10,400 rounds/year. You'd have to have nearly 50,000 rounds stashed-away to outlast Obama's first term, alone. And even if he lasts only one term (by no means a given), you'd still have to have a Congress amenable to overturning any ban, tax or identification law previously passed.

To be relatively sure you'd weather the storm, you'd have to stash 83,200 rounds. And that's assuming that simply outlasting Obama and the current left-"liberal" legislature would do it. At a conservative (by today's pricing) $18/100 for 9mm FMJ "range ammo" that's $14,976 in ammo, not incl. shipping costs.

Right.
 
GREAT DAY @ WAL-MART!!!



Few days agi, I just cruised by S Goods to see how bad it was - they had SEVERAL boxes of Blazer Brass in .45, 9mm, and .40 (of COURSE they had more of .40 and 9mm than .45)


It's been going SO FAST at that store lately, but they STILL had 7 boxes (50rd) of the .45 today, I got 6


I'm just past a month having my (first) handgun and this is the most ammo I've had at one time - I have been trying to hit the range as much as possible & am almost out after every trip to the range - felt lucky today to catch it while they were still stocked
 
I guess I got this one right.

Got my first Dillon reloading press in 1985. Upgraded to a 550B in 1995. Been buying primers, lead and powder all along. Picking up range brass for every caliber I shoot. Finding WW 500 round bricks for $9 and buying 3 at a time, shooting 1. I always load or buy about 50% more than I shoot.:D:D
I've got a fair supply loaded and enough componants on the hoof to outlast the next decade. I got there a little at a time over many years. :cool:
 
One thing is apparent. There is an accelerated demand for ammunition. I don't doubt there is hoarding. But lately it's occurred to me that there may be some speculating as well. It's conceivable that some are purchasing large quantities only to sell it when the scarcity has driven prices to unprecedented levels. I believe this to be the case with gun sales as well.
 
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