Posted on 01/30/2013 2:24:58 PM PST by deoetdoctrinae
I'm basically confined to stockpiling ammo and storing food. 4 more years is going to be tough for me. All I have to look forward to is 2014. I'm praying for a complete blowout of the Senate. IMO, Bammy could even get impeached if we got the votes. Right now, he's almost a dictator and the Senate would still say "not guilty".
Thanks! We’ve got enough stingers for now; just planning ahead because I want a coyote hat! :)
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I have just popped into several local WM's lately....
...Shelves USUALLY bare....
Yet we have found rounds in stock a few times.
Their reps tell us they get restocked 2-3 times a week...
And pretty good supply-- it just sells FAST FAST FAST...
Luck of the draw... Keep checkin'
They made huge purchases of ammo. They were large enough that I believe capacity was shifted to cover the orders. With the current demand, I imagine they are frantically shifting back. Or, if they can make more money in the environment of scarcity, they are doing that first.
I went to Wal-Mart early Saturday morning. They had just put out about a dozen 20-round boxes of American Eagle .223 (55-grain FMJ) and the same number of 9mm 115-grain ball. I told the clerk I wanted all of the boxes of .223 and she said I could only have three boxes of ANYTHING (not 3 boxes of .223, and 3 boxes of 9mm, and 3 boxes of .380, etc.); total of 3 boxes no matter what I wanted to buy.
So, I bought the 3 box limit of .223 and I’m sure the guys behind me scooped up the rest.
No, as a gunstore owner and Evil retailer, I can categorically deny that we are not LOVING this “supply and demand” stuff. In fact, I know that many of my fellow evil retailers who are at the mercy of market forces will be barely making it in a couple of months. Here’s why: With nothing to stock, what will they be selling to pay the bills?
I have a little shop and only make a fraction of my income from retail as I am a gunsmith. If I was not a gunsmith I would be out of business in a few months at this rate.
Well maybe the drive by shootings and resulting death toll in Chicago might go down because of these slim pickings. If we don’t have our ammo by now we may be out of luck for a few years. Get what you can now and trade it for what you can use down the road.
Clinton* still has that asterisk after his name. ;)
Roger that.
No, it is not. Those purchases were normal acquisitions, not unlike much of the last decade. Recent purchases were publicized by conspiracy types and otherwise reasonable people were lead to believe that the government was up to something.
The current ammunition shortage is simply due to unprecedented demand by fearful citizens. And yes, there is ample justification for fearing our government.
The ammunition manufactures are running 24/7 trying to make and sell every single round possible before the inevitable collapse of the current bubble.
“...Walmart. Shelves are empty.”
Here, too.
I bet none of that has been delivered. I don’t know that as a fact, But the amounts have varied between several million and several TRILLION.I wonder if that wasn’t a scare tactic. If it was, no one in Texas is frightened...
But...can you sell me some ammo? ;)
Sorry. It was a Capitalist in me speaking. I manage a garden center - the only thing we ran out of last season was chopped straw due to the drought.
And if the drought keeps up, we’ll be where you are this time next year...
Black powder and BP substitutes still seem available, pick up an 1858 New Army Remington replica and spare cylinders(you can mail order them to boot) and use that for the “fun gun”. Cheap as heck and you can make the balls or bullets (Lee has a conical mold for percussion revolver bullets) from old wheel weights and scrap lead too!
I saw this as a possibility (the run on ammo and guns) before the election. I made a big order from an on-line ammo seller. My FedEx delivery man said “that is the biggest ammo delivery I have ever made”. The next day the other half of my order that shipped from a different location arrived by UPS.
That’s the same thing one of the clerks told me Saturday when I asked about 22 ammunition. They’ve been receiving shipments, but it sells out almost immediately. That morning, they’d received some CCI bulk packs and a several 100 round boxes. By the time I got there...9am...they’d sold all of it except six of the 100 round boxes. I was limited to 3, and thankful for even that.
Someone is lying here.
.22 Long Rifle Ammo.
Are the shipments even going?
Are the store manager or employees selling out the backdoor for a big cash adder?
The ammo is not getting to the shelves for public consumption.
The secondary market is 5X the price of October.
You got snow up there? It has been warm even into the 70s over here the last few days. Cooling down tonight.
Yes, Virgina Wall-mart did limit the sales of toilet paper.
Most believe the great toilet paper shortage of 1973 was cause by a johnny Carson’s joke. Really? This was the era of Jimmy Carter’s malaise.
Could have this been a practice run? What ever happen to Mr. Whipple?
The this might a subject Roseanne Barr has spoken about which we might have some agreement on. Her butt is too big for jut one square.
I went to a gun show last Saturday. Most all of the .22LR available was lead round nose practice ammo (the kind that doesn’t feed well in semi-autos).
Finally came across a guy who was selling 100 count baggies of Winchester hollow points for $9 each. I bought two and left him with only two bags.
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