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>>Well considering he had 2800 rounds for those two bolt action .50 cals, that’s a bunch of ammo for bolt actions. Even by my standards, and I buy 1k at a time at the gun shows. But that’s for semi’s, where it’s not unusual to crank off 300 rounds during a trip to the range.<<

It’s an incredible amount of .50 caliber ammo — especially given the price for that stuff. Makes me wonder if that part of the story is even accurate. I don’t think an individual could shoot that much .50 cal in a lifetime. Even for a dealer, that would be an insane amount of .50 caliber ammo. I’m tempted to chalk that up to typical poor reporting when it comes to the subject of guns.

Also, it should be noted that there is nothing illegal about owning 2,800 rounds of .50 ammo. Nothing. Nada. Zip. It is not a crime and therefore irrelevant to this story.

.50BMG ammo used to be relatively cheap. It wasn't all that long ago it was <$1 per round. It shot up in price a few years ago but has been coming down some. He could easily have purchased a large amount of ammo anticipating the increase in value. Considering ammo prices can often swing several hundred percent in a year's time it's not a bad investment.

No FFL is needed to deal in ammo or buy it with the intention of reselling it.