Individuals who are buying much larger quantities than they can use are the problem. ...for example, purchasers of primers, who buy from tens of thousands to 700 cases. Some are doing that for the purpose of reselling at higher prices (more bubble speculators), and some, with fantasies about equipping small (very small) armies of untrained nitwits. Others yet, believe it or not, having caught on to the shortage, are buying monstrous quantities for the sole purpose of depriving Second Amendment supporters.
But they’ll exhaust their wads of money for such weirdness soon enough. Ammo and components will be available again and probably quite a bit cheaper, as the idiots are laid off from their jobs and begin to starve.
I'm hearing they have ammo at ridiculous prices. They have reloading supplies to match the prices of their ammo. I just got 500 rounds of .308's off a web site to feed my M1A and my wife's first comment was "Why don't you get 1000 and sell 500 to pay for the other 500?" I said, well, if I get the 1000 rounds, ain't nobody gettin a damn round from me. I've always been a hoarder and my wife has always had the business sense. She just don't understand bump firing a clip or 2 and everybody looking at you with admiration. The more you have, the more you have, I always say.
“Individuals who are buying much larger quantities than they can use are the problem.”
That is called “hoarding” and “profiteering” in the Marxist lexicon. In a functional free market, that doesn’t happen.
Sorry if you didn’t know that or take it in the wrong way, but your buying into a false worldview here...
Winchester and Federal are using almost all of the components to produce their ammo... which is of higher profit margins. Components will appear in quantity when they catch up with backorders. NRA and Arfcom (AR15.com) are the sources.
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Anyone buying food and ammunition may not be the idiot you think they are.