“That means that if less than 50 people per day in each State are buying 10 bricks of .22, it is enough to dry up the entire supply as it is being manufactured.” “
So, the manufacturing capacity for the entire US is only 500 bricks a day per State? That doesn’t pass the gut check.
How do we know that there is only the capacity to manufacture 4.3 billion rounds a year 24x7?
“That doesn’t pass the gut check.”
Something does seem odd because I remember in the good old days - before Obama’s first election - I could drive to any Walmart in the state and find several thousand rounds of CCI minimags in 100 round plastic boxes in each store no matter what season it was. I can clearly remember sales and tables with piles of boxes containing said ammo on display! Now, however, I can’t even find the stuff to begin with!
I realize that tens of millions of guns have been sold - thanks to Obama! - but it seems that the ammo industry isn’t even remotely coming close to meeting demand.
“All I know is that I bought the last two boxes of my favorite 30-06 load today simply because they were there.”
That is a big part of the problem. Not criticizing the poster for buying “just because it was there” (I do the same thing). The demand is outstripping the supply and will continue for some time
Because federal ammo excise tax records are public