Posted on 08/31/2014 9:34:25 AM PDT by lbryce
I don’t know.
I can think of reasons it would take a long time to replenish the inventory, but you are correct it’s peculiar that we’re coming up on two years since I’ve seen .22 rimfire in the inventory anywhere.
Totally unrelated.
One is a true need and the other is your conjecture.
One is certainly not equal to the other.
The closure of the last U.S. lead smelter in Missouri by the EPA probably has more to do with it. The bullet makers have not found a reliable replacement source.
Bought my three boxes of .22LR Remington (1350fps) 100rd boxes for $21 and change out the door. WalMart. 0.07 cents per round.
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Wow! $21 was what I paid last year at Wally World for a 525 rd brick. My wife and I walked out with over 3000rds for less than $150 Quite an increase.
Wally’s is still cheaper than any gun show -
Take 150$? :-)
I've gone on to find other hobbies. The $thousands a year I used to spend on shooting are now happily spent elsewhere.
Sure they can wait out this panic, but they can't wait me out as a customer.
Sounds like B$.
Just think of the headlines and divide that the ex-commies and urban media could generate when they find some red neck with 10K rounds of 22LR ammo in his stockpile.
Those that shoot fully understand the the reality that the media and their ex Soviet commie owners and political elites are trying to take your guns and ammo, just as they are trying to change the USA culture to Mexican. But many in the NYC type public would say such a stockpile is wrong instead of a right.
America needs to be made aware that the MSM really wants to pit us against each other. They do not want a united United States. Their goal is divide the sheep. The divide gives them control.
A pair of steel military M2A1 .50 caliber ammo can holds 10 boxes worth of those 500-round cartons, 5000 rounds total. The military packaging for them is two cans per wire-bound fiber-and wood crate, about the size of a foot-high stack of square pizza cartons. That would work out to $400 or so a case, by your price reckoning, and an assortment of .22 to go with my other ammo would thereby require around five to ten such cases.
Do you begin to see my problem with such a *reasonable* price?
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