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Gun Stores Seeing A Run On Ammunition
CBS Miami ^ | 4/18/2013

Posted on 04/20/2013 4:19:00 AM PDT by markomalley

Ammunition sellers and manufacturers say there’s been a run on bullets and they can’t keep their shelves stocked.

Jeff Dillard who runs National Armory in Pompano says it’s the worst he’s ever seen.

“I have never seen ammo so impossible to get,” said Dillard.

He said demand for ammunition has been growing and spiked over the past couple of days.

“Because of the terrorist attacks and the gun control legislation people are getting in more of a panic situation,” Dillard said.

When he can get bullets, Dillard says, they’re expensive.

“We paid five times the price we would normally pay,” he said, adding that it isn’t just ammunition running low, he can’t even get the parts to make bullets. “All our vendors are telling us not only are they out of stock but some are two to three million bullet-heads in back-order. They won’t even take our orders because they don’t know when they’ll be able to fill them.”

Ammunition manufacturer Andy Delatorre says can hardly keep up with ammunition orders, but the shortage on parts has hurt his business so much he had to lay off four people last month.

“We have had to shut down 50 percent of manufacturing process. People are out on street without jobs right now. We just can’t find enough raw material,” he said.

Ammunition manufacturers and sellers say they see no end in sight to the demand for bullets. “A lot of the distributors and suppliers are telling us it could be 2-3 months before we can get an ample supply of ammo and all that’s going to do is to drive up the prices,” said Dillard.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Extended News; Government
KEYWORDS: banglist; guncontrol; secondamendment
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To: Sender

No such thing as bullet heads. Sounds almost pornograpic.

Bullets are just the projectile. Rounds or cartridges or Ammunition describes the complete item.


21 posted on 04/20/2013 5:42:48 AM PDT by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight,, he'll just kill you.)
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To: markomalley
Talk about a “No shit Sherlock” moment. this article has it all over it.

Where have these folks been? Ammunition has been scarce and expensive since the election. Normal folks are scared. Scared of Washington and they are stocking up.

I know I have curtailed my range time to conserve ammunition even though I reload because components are as scarce as manufactured cartridges.

22 posted on 04/20/2013 5:45:26 AM PDT by Tupelo (Old, Bald, Ugly, Fat and Broke in Arizona)
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To: Moose4

Are bullet heads anything like moose heads? ;-)


23 posted on 04/20/2013 5:45:27 AM PDT by Nita Nupress
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To: Bullethead

You’re being discussed here.


24 posted on 04/20/2013 5:48:07 AM PDT by Nita Nupress
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To: shelterguy

Lot of ignorance especially among Dhimmicrats.

Rep. Diana DeGette (D-CO) on Magazines
: “I will tell you these are ammunition, they’re bullets, so the people who have those now they’re going to shoot them, so if you ban them in the future, the number of these high capacity magazines is going to decrease dramatically over time because the bullets will have been shot and there won’t be any more available.” (April 2, 2013, Denver Post forum)


25 posted on 04/20/2013 5:49:51 AM PDT by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight,, he'll just kill you.)
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To: markomalley

AGAIN?????


26 posted on 04/20/2013 5:50:30 AM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (IÂ’m not a Republican, IÂ’m a conservative! Pubbies haven't been conservative since before T.R.)
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To: grobdriver

‘What’s a “bullet-head”?’

A pro 2nd Amendment rock band?


27 posted on 04/20/2013 5:51:43 AM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (IÂ’m not a Republican, IÂ’m a conservative! Pubbies haven't been conservative since before T.R.)
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To: markomalley

Obama’s timing sucks.


28 posted on 04/20/2013 5:52:03 AM PDT by keats5 (Not all of us are hypnotized.)
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To: markomalley

http://www.corbins.com/index.htm

http://www.cabelas.com/catalog/browse/shooting-reloading-reloading-components/_/N-1100194/Ns-CATEGORY_SEQ_104275080

http://www.midwayusa.com/category/reloading-supplies

http://www.brownells.com/reloading/index.htm

http://www.dillonprecision.com/Reloading_Components-8-5.html

http://www.sinclairintl.com/reloading-components/index.htm

http://www.winchester.com/Products/components/Pages/default.aspx

https://www.midsouthshooterssupply.com/deptsearch1x.asp?dept=%52%65%6C%6F%61%64%69%6E%67

http://www.grafs.com/retail/catalog/vendor/vendorId/52

http://www.lohmanarms.com/reloading_supplies_s/2083.htm

Reloading, casting / swaging own bullets, stock up on primers, brass and powder...... Never be caught short again folks !

My opinion.


29 posted on 04/20/2013 6:01:41 AM PDT by Squantos ( Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everyone you meet ...)
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To: Vaquero

silver is next

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-04-19/chinese-gold-exchange-sold-out-begins-importing-switzerland


30 posted on 04/20/2013 6:03:38 AM PDT by Therapsid (Communism has killed 50-60 Million people in only 50 yrs.)
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To: markomalley

In the midst of an ammo bubble, we learned with certainty that we dwell in a police state. A state where freedom is stolen in a matter of hours and replaced by batallions of police.


31 posted on 04/20/2013 6:05:40 AM PDT by bert ((K.E. N.P. N.C. +12 .....History is a process, not an event)
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To: Therapsid

I read somewhere here in FR that gold and silver is in line to be REGISTERED.

sounds like FDR Bullcrap to me


32 posted on 04/20/2013 6:06:54 AM PDT by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight,, he'll just kill you.)
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To: grobdriver
What’s a “bullet-head”?

Similar to a pin head idiot MSM reporter.

33 posted on 04/20/2013 6:09:05 AM PDT by Texas Fossil
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To: Yo-Yo
Gee, someone finally decide to go out and buy a box of .22 to plink in the back yard and find out what the rest of us have known since December?

No kidding. My son just found quite a few 550-round boxes of .22 at Wal Mart earlier this week. He was surprised.

34 posted on 04/20/2013 6:09:56 AM PDT by USMCPOP (Father of LCpl. Karl Linn, KIA 1/26/2005 Al Haqlaniyah, Iraq)
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To: grobdriver
"What’s a “bullet-head”?"

Street slang used by ignorant folks when describing a cartridge component projectile. "Bullets" are those little thingies launched by a firearm that hurl downrange until they impact a target or eventually run into the ground.

Bullets are to cartridges as flour is to bread as cement is to concrete, etc. When will they ever learn?

Unfortunately, many posters on this forum also don't know any better. It is a certain indication that the writer doesn't know much about the subject.

35 posted on 04/20/2013 6:11:22 AM PDT by Buffalo Head (Illigitimi non carborundum)
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To: markomalley

What gave them a clue?


36 posted on 04/20/2013 6:23:26 AM PDT by Professional Engineer (No one expects the Sephardic Invitation!)
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To: hondact200
What’s next ban gunpowder, lead and so on and so forth.

I do know that folks are having a helluva time finding powder and primers.

37 posted on 04/20/2013 6:31:43 AM PDT by Road Warrior ‘04 (Molon Labe! (Oathkeeper))
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To: USMCPOP
Same for me back on Monday at my closest Wal-Mart. I was there at 7:00 AM when they wheeled the buggy from the back to sporting goods, and everybody (including the clerks) were shocked at how much came in. 3 cases of .22 bricks, 1 case of 9mm, 4 cases of .380, some 12 ga., some 7.62x39.

Probably just a fluke, but I'll wasn't going to look a gift horse in the mouth.

38 posted on 04/20/2013 6:32:14 AM PDT by deoetdoctrinae (The Old White Flag Republicans can go straight to He// and take their pal Obama with them!)
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To: hondact200

“”””How did the Militia of 1775 deal with ammunition supplies - They made them. Today there is the same process. What’s next ban gunpowder, lead and so on and so forth.”””

There is a shop near my house that deals specifically in reloading supplies. They have everything for the serious reloader.

I was in there a few weeks ago. No dies for .223, 9mm or any other the other popular sizes. A big sign above the counter says WE DO NOT HAVE PRIMERS SO DO NOT ASK.

Without primers you have nothing.


39 posted on 04/20/2013 6:33:23 AM PDT by shelterguy
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To: USMCPOP

There are ample stocked shelves of 7mm magnum rounds.
A little bit more than a buck a round at $25 a box. And there are other not so popular calibers as well amply stocked on the shelves, actually better ammo in most regards than .22lr, .223 and even .308.

They can just get a 7mm mag bolt action and hit the range.

But nooooo, its the latest cult frenzy to whine and complain about being able to buy ammo. They had the writing on the wall years ago when Obama was elected.

And honestly I will say this and be dammed by many for being blunt.

Most ammo whiners are liberals. They just recently decided they need it, they may even be more described as being libertarian.

Many many Johnny come lately’s.


40 posted on 04/20/2013 6:39:09 AM PDT by Spartan302
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