Posted on 09/03/2021 7:20:13 AM PDT by Onthebrink
“The ammunition problem isn’t new. It’s been a market factor for well over a year and is rooted in the extraordinarily high number of firearms that were sold over the past 18 months,” the trade lobby group for the firearms industry added. “Firearm sales skyrocketed starting in March 2020 and set an all-time high record that year, topping out at 21 million background checks for the sale of a gun. NSSF surveys revealed that 40 percent of those sales were for first-time gun buyers, an injection of over 8.4 million new owners. That pace hasn’t slowed, and through August of 2021 there were another 12.4 million background checks for gun sales, easily outpacing 2019 and 2018.”
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Dang dude..... get excited or something.
It’s what I’ve heard. At first glance, it seemed odd for us to no longer be making most of our ammo. But with the libs doing what they can to shutdown the industry, I wouldn’t doubt it
I haven’t seen primers in at least a year. I gave up reloading when I sold my big bore rifles, and just buy cases of M4 ammo. My Class III ARs will eat that just fine, and so will my 1911s.
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Most ammo is used up for target practice or fun. We'll make more.
In the meantime, there's enough ammo across the nation, in the hands of good people, to keep the commies crapping in their panties for many years to come.
I don’t own an AR or AK. I do reload quite a number of caliber’s of rifles, but only 38/357 in pistol cartridges.
I lean hard on the caliber’s that can be reloaded cheaply.
When Obozo was in office I made a major effort to be able to reload everything my family shoots. Pretty well accomplished that. Over time I filled in the gaps of the hard to find components.
Years ago if a hunter had a couple of boxes of ammo he was in good shape. Not the case now.
I do not buy ammo in bulk, but have enough brass, bullets and bullet molds to keep me for a long time.
My dad taught me to hunt and fish. He taught me to reload cartridges. He taught me to work and to be truthful. All of that is unusual today, but not so much around where I live.
He taught me to be candid and honest related to business dealings. He also taught me to question people who want to dictate to me without my consent. I will never recover from that imprinting.
Our family has owned/operated farms in this county since 1889. Before that in Coryell County near Gatesville.
I am 73 and god has blessed me my entire life. I’ve know some tough times but most of it has been great.
My father died in March at 95. He was a WWII vet, was an armorer part of the war. He worked on Quad 50’s and Bofors.
He worked for himself his entire life. He left big footprints to fill.
God Bless your Father.
My Dad died at 96 in 2018, and he was similar to yours. He was a WWII hero thru 4 campaigns in Europe, and in the Battle of The Bulge, as a Sgt Combat Engineer, with Patton, after he landed on D-Day. He was wounded by a nazi sniper in the Ardennes and made it back home to recuperate, with many medals. He worked with me thru to Eagle Scout, and left an indelible impression that only a Loving Father could.
We reloaders have been insulated since Clinton. I have 165gr NBTs loaded for deer for my Steyr-Manlnicher SBS in 308Win well before the "light bringer" (the antichrist Obama).
He missed the Bulge by 2 weeks. He was sent to a 2nd training school because of some testing they gave him.
Thank you for story about your father, we both own them a great debt. The nation owes them one. And the world owes them one.
They were incredible men.
May God continue to Bless the USA with such men.
Yeah, that’s what people keep repeating. I don’t believe it’s accurate.
I agree with you......I know a couple of guys who shop Dunham's every Monday morning after they get their weekly ammo shipment in and they buy whatever the limit of boxes is.......They just keep buying and buying and buying even tho they have thousands of stockpiled rounds at home.....
Even tho I have about 15 boxes of steel casing 9 mm that I purchased maybe 20 years ago, I now can't shoot any of it at the local indoor ranges because they only allow brass.
So I had to pay top dollar for 10 boxes to go shooting with a buddy........
Yes, we do.
May they both, and all of them, RIP.
“We reloaders have been insulated since Clinton”
Yes WE have.
Scheels in the Colony Texas has a whole wall of ammo and three rows in the aisles also ammo. 9mm,45,40 cal,10mm,380 all had significant supply no limits on what you could take. 5.56 and 7.62 had their own whole aisles tons and tons of wolf, tula and ppc. They also had lake city green cans at least 50 of them in 5.56 , I even saw 50bmg , 338 lapua, and 308 match grade in addition to probably 5,000 rounds of steel cases 150gr 7.62 NATO. There absolutely is no shortage of ammo in North Texas the average price per round was 40 cents for the steel stuff and a buck for brass in the rifles with the match grade stuff $3+ per round. Pistols was 30 cents for the steel stuff and 75 to a buck for the brass defensive hollow points , range paper cutter brass pistol rounds were 60 cents ish.
Remember when the old joke used to be something like, “Most people would benefit from buying more ammo and training instead of more guns”? Everyone knows that most people, especially noobs, don’t train and shoot enough. It’s gotta be a supply chain problem, IMHO.
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