Winchester ammo sales are only up a net 33% over 2007? Hard to believe the increase is that low, given the fact that ammo shelves were damned near empty until 2009. Perhaps they sell 100% every year and were only able to ramp-up production by one-third, or something.
Our daughter has a college friend in Wisconsin whose family has a reloading business. They had 30 employees in 2009 and have had to expand the business three times since 0 bummer got elected. They have over 300 employees now.
Back in 2009, they'd get an order and ship the same day. Now they have a 2 - 3 week waiting period before shipping. They can't keep supplies on the shelves. The girl left $65K job to be the IT person for the business.
For most of 2009, Obozo’s first year as Emperor, it was basically impossible to buy defensive/non hunting ammo in our city/county and most of the state. Walmart was constantly sold out of the major ammo and limited customers to 1 or 2 boxes. Big 5 went through the same routine. Our local sporting good store had a hard time getting hunting ammo for local hunters and often limited you or two boxes of hunting ammo.
The ammo manufacturers apparently could not keep up with the demand which increased when the nation found out that Obozo was the rat candidate in 2008.
Each new gun purchase increased the demand for ammo.
Relatives, who have been reloaders all their lifes across the nation ran into shortages during the first year.
“Winchester ammo sales are only up a net 33% over 2007? Hard to believe the increase is that low, given the fact that ammo shelves were damned near empty until 2009. Perhaps they sell 100% every year and were only able to ramp-up production by one-third, or something.”