PRICE is really irrelevant when one cannot find ammo in-stock! What I really don’t get - I’m having no luck finding brand name/premium ammunition for the most popular calibers - despite these supposedly being the high-priority production. 30-06? .308? 9mm?
I realize that the Remington ammo plant has been practically idled for a couple of months... but none of the other ammo manufacturers have been...
I even contemplated getting my old press and dies out... until I looked for components... bullet+powere+primeers (assuming I have good brass), the cost is actually even higher than the exorbitant prices I have seen for premium factory stuff... What is going on? This would appear to be more than simple “supply & demand”. I’ve heard that manufacturers are having a hard time getting raw materials... is this another creative use of a virus to strangle the supply chain - another way to conspire to restrict ammunition to citizens?
the answer is most certainly, yes
I attribute it to supply and demand — Corona, then a summer of rioting and violence, and the threat, now seemingly made real, of a gun-grabber in the Whitehouse next year. People have been buying like crazy all year with these issues snowballing and the suppliers just can’t keep up. Now I don’t suppose it will ever go back to normal.