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Ammunition prices have slowly trended downward. It may be a good time to purchase specialty ammunition before tariffs kick in.
1 posted on 04/28/2025 5:08:46 AM PDT by marktwain
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--- "A Good Time to Buy?"

Always a good time to buy.

2 posted on 04/28/2025 5:16:00 AM PDT by Worldtraveler once upon a time (Degrow government)
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I believe PMC is manufactured in Korea. It’s good stuff and the brass is fine for reloading. I do quite a bit of that.

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3 posted on 04/28/2025 5:20:40 AM PDT by Lurker ( Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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Thanks for the heads up.

My supply finally got caught up last year. I bought a fair amount before the sell off of Vista Outdoor inventory, and prices went up in January 2025.

You are correct, there is a slight downward trend in prices.

The value of the dollar affects the balance. Since the Biden Regime is gone, the public is in less of a panic, but sale of firearms is still more than 1 million a month.

Trump has done more in 4 months to help our nation than ComDems have done in 50 years.

And Trump has just started.


4 posted on 04/28/2025 5:24:28 AM PDT by Texas Fossil (Texas is not about where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind and Attitude.)
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There is a clear principle that you can’t tax a constitutionally-enumerated right. Ergo the federal excise tax on firearms an ammunition (11% on long guns and ammo; 10% on handguns) should never have passed constitutional muster. Why aren’t we turning the noise up to 11 on this? Did you think that tax stamp on every box of ammo you bought was free?

But the FET on firearms is paid by the wholesaler so there is no stamp and you never see it on the sales receipt. So much of what shooting stuff you buy is (at least) 10% more expensive than it should be because the Feds are lining their pockets at yours and the US Constitution’s expense.

That federal excise tax should have been repealed or challenged in SCOTUS ages ago.

https://www.ttb.gov/firearms/taxes-and-tax-exemptions

“The tax rates are 10% of the sale price of pistols and revolvers; 11% of the sale price of firearms other than pistols and revolvers, shells and cartridges. See 26 USC Section 4181(a); 27 CFR Section 53.61(a).”


5 posted on 04/28/2025 6:16:07 AM PDT by Paal Gulli
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Remember the Glaser Safety Slug? I was happy to learn about the Corbon Urban Defense round.
Same polymer tip—hollow point performance, but solid, not little pellets. Good penetration.
Believe any 1911 types finicky with “ashtray” hollow points shouldn’t have trouble digesting these. A little pricey, but ...


7 posted on 04/28/2025 9:04:29 AM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives)
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