Yeah, math is something, but so is real life. First, a brick in my world is 10 boxes of 50. 500 rounds that used to sell for $14-17. If you bought more than one most dealers would throw in an extra box for a total of 550 rounds. I could go into Walmart and find 20 to 30 bricks on the shelf at any time. I could go into a typical gun store and find maybe double that. If they were out of your favorite brand, tell the nice man on the desk and he could get what you wanted by Monday.
That was then. Since Sandy Hook, if you wanted anything, he would tell you that it's on backorder. .22LR, .45, .223, .38, .40 or 9mm didn't make a difference. If you wanted it, it was on backorder.
So what you're telling me is that because some nut shot up a school in Connecticut, everyone thought at the same time that now would be a great time to open a website and sell ammo over the internet? Gee, I wonder why these same folks didn't think of this in any of the highly publicized gun incidences in the past?
Something doesn't smell right about this and I don't think it's a case of 10,000 people that just got this great idea at the same time...
That's the way that technology works. Auction sites have been spreading like wildfire lately; it was only a matter of time before someone made one for guns and ammo.
And Sandy Hook is why we have the ammo shortage. But it it only indirectly tied to Sandy Hook. The direct link is to 0bama and the left-wing conspiracy against the Second Amendment. Every time 0bama talks about a gun ban, the guns start flying off the shelves at every gun store in the country. And at the same time, people start stocking up on ammo in every caliber they may use. That's why you can never find standard pistol calibers on the shelves at Walmart. That's also why you can only rarely find common rifle calibers on the shelves at Walmart. But there are enough of each that occasionally the supply will meet that day's demand. But not everyone has a 9mm, or a .45, or a .223, or a .308. Practically everyone and their mom has at least 1 .22LR (even if it's just for the kids).