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The Great Gun Sales Boom Of 2020-2021 Shows No End In Sight
19FortyFive ^ | 6/4/2021 | Peter Suciu

Posted on 06/04/2021 11:37:10 AM PDT by Onthebrink

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To: SkyDancer

Our Cabala store expanded their women’s clothing section and filled the ammo shelves with air.
I find it difficult to believe that large retailers cannot get ammo. I can get it on gunbroker and other online outlets in lots of 1,000 and 500 pretty easily. If some dude in Tennessee can locate 100,000 rounds of 5.56 or 7.62, that one of the largest retailers in the world can’t get it.


21 posted on 06/04/2021 12:27:15 PM PDT by newnhdad (Our new motto: USA, it was fun while it lasted.)
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To: unread

We were selling over 100 a day during the week and have fallen to 60~, still up from more sane times.


22 posted on 06/04/2021 12:33:01 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents)(Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: allblues

$7.97 to $375.00 is a 4605% increase.

That’s like buying an ounce of gold for $.41 and still having it when it’s $1,893/oz. Sheesh!


23 posted on 06/04/2021 12:33:47 PM PDT by KingLudd
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To: Onthebrink

Muskets were the AR-15s of the American Revolution.


24 posted on 06/04/2021 12:33:52 PM PDT by A strike (Barr to Gitmo, Roberts to Florence supermax, Fauxi to TerreHaute)
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To: algore
Unfortunately they wanted $1.09 per round of 9mm.

Ahhhhhhhhhhh..........NO!!

25 posted on 06/04/2021 12:46:45 PM PDT by JesusIsLord
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To: Onthebrink

I must be a piker...I only got two!


26 posted on 06/04/2021 12:48:22 PM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: KingLudd

I was at a gun show an hour and a half ago. The going rate for 9mm was 80cents a round.


27 posted on 06/04/2021 12:57:05 PM PDT by TalonDJ
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To: newnhdad

And the story in Lacy, WA was practically empty. My dad wanted some ammo cases and they had these things smaller than a shoe box for almost $20; he finally found some on Amazon twice the size (full size ammo cans) for $10.


28 posted on 06/04/2021 12:57:49 PM PDT by SkyDancer (I Identify As Vaccinated)
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To: Onthebrink

My local store still has had plenty of 6MM and 6.5 MM Creedmoor ammo on the shelves for months.

Everything else is quickly sold out. Lucky I was in when they had a quick shipment come in. Bought one box. Didn’t need any more and let others have the rest.
After everyone stocked up and left I noticed the Creedmoor ammo was still on the shelves.


29 posted on 06/04/2021 1:01:52 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar ((Democrats have declared us to be THE OBSOLETE MAN in the Twilight Zone.))
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To: Onthebrink

I saw a piece on History channel about Cris Craft boats and how they manufacture them, CC was using 9mm bulle projectiles for ballast in their boats, not sure what they’re doing today.


30 posted on 06/04/2021 1:03:53 PM PDT by Rappini (Compromise has its place. It's called second.)
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To: gundog

Seems fitting for this thread.


31 posted on 06/04/2021 1:09:28 PM PDT by ctdonath2 (All worry about monsters that'll eat our face, but it's our job to ask WHY it wants to eat our face.)
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To: ctdonath2

Yeah, sadly.


32 posted on 06/04/2021 1:23:53 PM PDT by gundog (It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: Rappini

So, there are boats out there with 9mm bullets in them?


33 posted on 06/04/2021 1:25:44 PM PDT by gundog (It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: Onthebrink

I think they got it wrong. The pandemic is not what is driving firearm and ammo sales. The main driving force is the nation wide riots and the government lack of response and actual support of them.


34 posted on 06/04/2021 1:28:27 PM PDT by Kadric
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To: Onthebrink

If the gun makers can keep up with the record demand why can’t the ammo makers?


35 posted on 06/04/2021 1:35:39 PM PDT by Newtoidaho (All I ask of living is to have no chains on me.)
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To: gundog

That would be easy, there would be so few left and scattered, that they would already have a few plans in place for that.

Thankfully God is still in control, and it may not happen like that, but those who took the shots already are going to be in a for a wake up call I’m strongly thinking.


36 posted on 06/04/2021 1:37:17 PM PDT by Bulwyf
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

That’s a surprise. Up here it was the first to go. I think too many people watched me shoot my rifles and asked themselves why on earth they were still shooting 308s, and the rush was on. I might of done myself in except that I saw this coming many moons ago and have stuff heh.


37 posted on 06/04/2021 1:39:15 PM PDT by Bulwyf
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To: Newtoidaho

People only buy a few guns. At some point most people are done buying, content with one or a few.
Ammo, being a consumable, is easy to buy lots of.


38 posted on 06/04/2021 1:53:03 PM PDT by ctdonath2 (All worry about monsters that'll eat our face, but it's our job to ask WHY it wants to eat our face.)
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To: Onthebrink

As black on black gun crimes and murders continue to rise increased gun sales should also be expected. I mean legal gun owners and law abiding NRA members still have to replace guns stolen in burglaries and car thefts.
The FBI and Department of Justice are always releasing statistics from their countless gun crime studies.
But they always fail to touch on the single most important Stat. The percentage of guns in black high crime areas also known as Democrat run areas. Places where 90% of 13 yr Olds have three things in common. A felony criminal record, no parental leadership, and a stolen gun in their waistband.
Just once I’d like to see the Department of Justice address this stat.


39 posted on 06/04/2021 2:00:44 PM PDT by cquiggy
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To: Newtoidaho; Lurkinanloomin

“If the gun makers can keep up with the record demand why can’t the ammo makers?”

I’m not sure they are, but I know somebody who does. Lurkinanloomin, how is the supply? If I wanted, say, a Springfield XDm .40, could I walk into a store and buy one?


40 posted on 06/04/2021 2:23:45 PM PDT by suthener
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