Instead of theories, you need math.
Prior to the ammo crisis, the U.S. had spare manufacturing capability for an extra 2 Billion rounds of ammo.
Well, what if 100 people in each state were buying a single brick of .22?
That’s 100 people * 1,000 round brick * 50 states = 5 million rounds.
Times 365 days = 1.825 Billion rounds.
Poof! There goes the entire spare manufacturing capability of .22!
It just takes 100 people in each state buying a single brick of .22.
100 people buying a single box of .22, per above, and you’ve got yourself the ammo-equivalent of a bank run!
Math is an amazing thing...
Shuddup....
I hate math....
Yeah, math is something, but so is real life. First, a brick in my world is 10 boxes of 50. 500 rounds that used to sell for $14-17. If you bought more than one most dealers would throw in an extra box for a total of 550 rounds. I could go into Walmart and find 20 to 30 bricks on the shelf at any time. I could go into a typical gun store and find maybe double that. If they were out of your favorite brand, tell the nice man on the desk and he could get what you wanted by Monday.
That was then. Since Sandy Hook, if you wanted anything, he would tell you that it's on backorder. .22LR, .45, .223, .38, .40 or 9mm didn't make a difference. If you wanted it, it was on backorder.
So what you're telling me is that because some nut shot up a school in Connecticut, everyone thought at the same time that now would be a great time to open a website and sell ammo over the internet? Gee, I wonder why these same folks didn't think of this in any of the highly publicized gun incidences in the past?
Something doesn't smell right about this and I don't think it's a case of 10,000 people that just got this great idea at the same time...
I’ve noticed what seems like more imported ammo at stores’ sporting goods depts. I’m not sure how foreign sources figure in?
An interesting question, if there is so little capability to “ramp up”, is what happens in the event of a protracted shooting war? How many rounds did our armed forces go through in Vietnam, in, say, 1968? (Yes, I know our armed forces aren’t plinking away with .22’s — this is more of a general question.)
I’m not buying now anyway - prices are too high, I don’t have the spare $$, and I’m not an “enthusiast”. (The biggest thing I’ve “fired” in the last few years is a 800 fps BB gun!)
Don’t go ruining a good conspiracy theory with facts and math. :) But I say you’re right.