Who has all the 9x19??????

My LGS is hording (sic) with a 4 box limit and he gets $14 for 115gr ball.
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No, he's just keeping anyone from being this guy:

I watched a guy at walmart today buy about 20 boxes of federal 9mm. Cleaned them out.
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Four years ago was not a long time. How is it possible that none of you remembers it? Exact same deal.
 
I guess I'll be the first one in this thread to point out that you can reload cheap lead target loads for $0.14 if you save the brass you shoot.

$0.14 is a conservative number for lead. Bulk buyers and bullet casters can get the price ridiculously low. I've seen $.06 tossed around before but that depends on how much time you are willing to put into it.
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I dont think that uncoated lead will cycle in my 1911/9mm. Its a little finicky even with the polished ramp.
 
I like to shoot about 200-300 rounds of 9mm per range trip. When I finally found about 600 rounds of practice ammo last week I bought it. I can now go to the range and shoot some of it. That's its purpose, right? I ask because some guys are seemingly planning to use it instead of bricks to build an addition on their homes. (Guys still with untouched 5000+ rounds from the 2008 shortage :rolleyes:)

I have been caught without any practice ammo before and will not let it happen to me again. (It sucks not being able to go shooting for 2-3 months.) I buy ammo with the plan of actually shooting it and having enough for a few range trips, in case I can't find any the week or two before I plan to go to the range.

I don't hoard (stockpile a bunch and not ever actually shoot it) ammo. I don't see the point. (You maybe able to sell some of it early on for a little profit during a shortage like this one BUT that's about it.)

If ammo is ever so regulated or banned that it becomes a truly valuable trade commodity, reloaders and black market dealers will be the owns to become wealthy because they have a RENEWABLE source for the ammo. (Just like moonshiners and mobsters during alcohol prohibition.) I don't think ammo, for recreational use, will ever get "that bad" in the US though in our lifetime... unless its due to heavy taxation on it. (In which case "Reloaded Ammo=Moonshine" No tax.)

I recommend people buy enough to continue their hobby as normal for a couple months and pick-up a few boxes as they see them on routine trips to the stores.

That's my .02 about ammo hoarding and stuff.

However, I firmly believe in everyone's right to have as much ammo as they want to own! Make no mistake about it!
 
"Do people think the government is going to ban ammo?"

No, some are afraid of cival disorder with no way to protect their loved ones.
Your neighbor is only a neighbor until he runs out of food.
 
No, some are afraid of cival disorder with no way to protect their loved ones.
Your neighbor is only a neighbor until he runs out of food.
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I'm not going to entertain that kind of lunacy. Too many people panic at the drop of a hat.
Everybody has been singing loud about all the new gun owners going out and buying guns. Did you think they wouldn't buy ammo? Maybe that is causing a temporary shortage.
Anyway, I think things will calm down in a month or so.
 
I don't think ammo, for recreational use, will ever get "that bad" in the US though in our lifetime... unless its due to heavy taxation on it. (In which case "Reloaded Ammo=Moonshine" No tax.)
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Then the primers could be taxed heavily. The same thing happened to those who rolled their own cigarettes. The government started taxing the loose tobacco more.
 
If it all gets too restrictive or heavily taxed, the black market dealers will be ready and willing to make sales.
 
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