Handgun ammo shortage after the holidays

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Playboypenguin

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We tried to buy a case of .45acp ammo this weekend and could not find a local store that had more than a couple boxes. Went to Sportsman's Warehouse today and their ammo section was wiped out. The did not have a single 9mm round in the store. Neither did a couple other local shops.

Is this just here or is it happening anywhere else right now? I think it might be a combination of the holidays along with the fact that we had a snowstorm here last week that slowed down any incoming supplies to shops.
 
I too have looked lately and cannot find cases (bulk sales) of ammo mainly 9mm or 45 acp in my area. The hunting ammo is there but other popular calibers are low not entirely gone but one or two people could wipe them out.

I believe its the holidays and still the election hype.
 
Yet another reason I have settled on .357 / .38 as my main caliber of choice. I can pretty much always find it even when there is run on the autochucker ammo. :D

.45 has seemed a bit scarce lately though.

Chris
 
One of my ammo dealers stated that he was not reordering any ammo until he finds out what Obama is going to do. He doesn't want to get caught with alot of ammo and guns he can't sell because of any ban Obama might put into law.
He is primarily a big supplier of sport fishing tackle, knives and compound hunting bows and sold ammo mostly to the offshore fishermen.
 
plenty of ammo up here... no problems with 45 acp in either Walmart, the local toy store, or Cabela's...

personally I have 1000's of cases, & bullets for reloading the 45, & am actually considering getting a 625 just to have a gun to shoot that 45 stuff in... ( as I get older I'm really begining to hate picking up brass from the semi's :o )
 
Also, rifle calibers

I ordered half case of .223 from ammotogo.com and it took 10 days before it shipped. Usually ships same or next day.
 
One of my ammo dealers stated that he was not reordering any ammo until he finds out what Obama is going to do. He doesn't want to get caught with alot of ammo and guns he can't sell because of any ban Obama might put into law.
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That makes no sense. He's just missing out on a lot of income for himself and hurting his customers, all because he has no idea how anything works. I'm pretty sure a ban can't just "go into effect" once he takes office. I think that has to go through all the red tape. He would have no problem selling any that he had in stock because people would be flocking to him for ammo before the big ban happens. :rolleyes:
 
Oh, boy I should go over to the conspiracy websites to see what they think is the cause of this!;) Might just be reduced consumer spending overall and the sellers are not reordering as quickly or it might be some effect of the economy overall, maybe people just have less money to spend on expensive "plinking" ammo and the money was going towards Christmas gifts instead. Could be alot of things, and just people lambasting the new admin. as a way of diverting the customers unhappiness with the dealers towards an easy target. Not to say that things might be proven right about them in the future....
 
Might be because metals prices are falling, and therefore ammo prices should fall too. Nobody wants to get stuck with a shelf full of ammo bought at todays prices, that's going to look too expensive in a few months.
 
My Wal-Mart has been out of .40 for a while, I asked the guy working in sporting goods when I could expect some to be in stock, he said "it could be up to 2 more weeks"!!!
 
Haven't noticed a shortage in this neck of the woods (KC) and there definitely was NO shortage at the gun show here last weekend. I don't know when I've seem more ammo for sale. Skid and skids of cases in more calibers than I could go through. Single boxes were pretty cheap also. Talked a guy into selling my 3 boxes of HST in .45 for $17/box of 50. I thought that was pretty good.
 
I went to wlmart yesturday and it was sad. I told the guy that his stock looked a little anemic. Ive noticed that the online stores are all sold out also. I am wanting to try the Hornady critical defense for my new 380 bug, but cant find any online anywhere.
 
I am wanting to try the Hornady critical defense for my new 380 bug, but cant find any online anywhere.
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my local toy store has it in stock... I just bought a box last weekto throw in with one of my buddys Christmas stuff... unfortunately they didn't have 38 special, or I would have bought a box of that for one of my other buddys
 
My local shop usually has 10-20 cases each of the more common auto loader calibers. Right now they have none. All they have are the individual boxes behind the counter. They said they cannot get any in volume right now and that their distrubitor doesn't even have cases, only will sell them 50 round boxes. They do have some in about every caliber, just not what they usually carry in stock.
 
Wow, there is a huge difference in what's going on here. It stretches from "plenty of ammo at good prices" to "no ammo at any price". I've not seen that before.....wonder why?
 
I agree. There's an ammo shortage out there and gun prices sure haven't followed the general deflation that's hitting the rest of the economy. I think I know why.

I've been following these websites carefully since the election and there's a fair amount of "he's going to take away our guns/ammo" paranoia out there. I have friends who are convinced that it's just a matter of weeks before ammo sales are sharply restricted or before ammunition in certain calibers is banned altogether. One person told me with a straight face that he had it on good authority that reloading would be made illegal.

The fear is obviously having an effect. I went to a gun show in mid-November and the line to get in stretched out the door and down the block. I'd been to the same show many times and never saw half as many people there as on this occasion. When I got inside I discovered that the line at the ammo dealer's table was almost as long as the line to get in. I stood in that one for 1/2 hour and finally gave up. I've noticed also that Midway, my favorite internet ammo purveyor, has posted many "out of stock/backorder ok" labels for .38 special ammo, which is what I buy a lot of.

People ought to get a grip on themselves before they run screaming into the night. I have no idea what Obama's gun agenda will be. However, it seems to me that he has bigger fish to fry at the moment than worrying about gun controls. He's going to need all the support he can get on economic issues. I have my doubts that he's going to pick a fight over what is, for him, a secondary issue at best, and in the process gratuitously alienate a big chunk of the voters.

Nevertheless, he can't impose limits on ammunition sales or gun controls by executive order. He needs a majority in BOTH houses of Congress to enact meaningful controls. And, the likelihood of him getting that now is very small.

So, my advice to all is to take a deep breath and not panic. And, my sense is that the panic buying will subside with the passage of time.
 
The think the Dems have a little too much on their plate right now to be worried about gun control. It may come but it won't be job one.
 
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