If you wanted to profit from shortages

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I have seen many threads in other forums where wars raged about "gouging" and "rip-off" vs taking advantage of supply and demand. I won't make moral judgments.

I am stocking up to see my needs in case of other shortages (food, water, toilet paper, batteries, etc). I will stock things for my family's needs, and have no intentions of selling at a profit. That's just how I am.
 
I don't stock for the purpose of reselling either, but I do try to keep a fair amount of ammo on hand. I was able to buy 9mm WWB at $5 about 1 years ago. The lowest I have seen it is around $14 a box now. That is a 180% increase which represents an average gain of 15% a year over the past 12 years (non-compounding of course). Most people would be pretty happy with that.

I had purchased 6 cases of it at that price but I wish I had bought more. Those 6 cases are ancient history and I'm sure I would have gone through 12 cases by now. At that price, I could have easily bought 100 cases and been set for a long while. :-( woulda, shoulda, coulda... But didn't.
 
I believe we will recover from this shortage. Maybe even sooner than we expect. I do however believer that THEY are COMING for our guns and that we can expect another such shortage in the not too distant future. We may not recover from that one. IMO.
 
So if you plan for a shortage and to make a buck, do you join antigun organizations and lobby for antigun bills as part of your genius marking plan?

It's not unethical under the free market system - is it?

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I don't know what Tulas or going for, but let's say $50/K.
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I hate to break it to you, but they are still going for $19/1000. Got 7K from Natchez last week.

HaHaHaHaHa!!!! CryBaby!! Geez, I have the sole intention to use everything I own supplies wise and build every AR reciever I own as well and I NEED every pmag i own as well because I hate reloading everytime i rip thru 30, thats why its better to have 30 mags ready to go, it makes for more fun time.. thats why I bought them to begin with.
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I guess that's why you're asking $200 per 1000 .223 cases...
 
You know what - and other staff can change this - but I'm closing this.

I can see stockpiling for bans and disasters but stashing for resale on an item that is part of our fundamental right to defend ourselves is not right. Manufacturers and store should make a reasonable profit.

Esp. if YOU don't use the materials yourself. If, for example, there was a time of disaster and you stockpiled bottled water, would you be morally upright if you then demanded lots of money from dying people?

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