Do you know why IMR powder cannot be found anywhere?? IMR 4895, 3031, and 4064 are “on backorder” at every supplier I have checked!
I can believe 223 and 308 ammo being in short supply, but 22?? Somebody would have to convince me that the govt. isn’t involved in this.
“New American” has a nice progressive sound to it...
It’s because of the middleman trade that has sprung up.
Go to Wal-Mart at 4-5AM, buy 15 boxes of TULA 7.62X39 for $5 each.
Sell at the local gun store for $8 a box.
The gun store sells it for $10 a box.
Make $45 for a short car trip.
INCREASE CAPACITY!
Ok, lets say all of those new gun owners bought 100 rounds, (I'm sure many bought a lot more, but 100 is probably a good round number for the average gun buyer that wants some practice ammo and a box or two around the house). That 6.5 BILLION rounds! And that is only on the guns bought since 2008, the other 250 million guns in private hands need ammo as well. No wonder they can't keep up with demand....
Government
The Latest Proposed Gun Control Bill Out of Florida May Be the Most ‘Ridiculous’ Yet
Mar. 6, 2013 6:30pm Jason Howerton
If a Florida Democrat has her way, anyone who tries to buy ammunition will have to first complete an anger management program. Critics are slamming the bill as a ridiculous and unconstitutional proposal to deal with gun violence.
Florida state Sen. Audrey Gibson (D-Jacksonville) introduced the bill on Saturday, which stipulates ammunition purchasers must go through a three-day waiting period to buy any ammo if they have not completed anger management courses. The bill would mandate that ammo buyers take the anger management course every 10 years.
In the meantime, ATK has received a letter from the government saying that gov’t orders MUST be filled first. Sales to the private markets only can happen after the gov’t orders are filled...and the gov’t is ordering a LOT.
Some calibers only had production runs of once or twice per year. .380 comes to mind. They would only make it for a month or so and that supply would last a whole year.
I have no idea if they are doing that now but it would explain a few things.
esteemed government bought it all?
Ya..and it’s just a coincidence that ATK has chosen now to shut down the Lake City facility, and lay off workers, so they can perform a $400M upgrade.
That they’re a major DOD contractor, couldn’t have influenced their timing.....
Years ago the Post Office offered a stamp honoring Dag Hammarskjöld. They accidentally printed one sheet upside down and a collector bought it. It was worth millions!
The Post Office responded by printing hundreds of thousands of upside down stamps diluting the collector value of the original sheet of stamps.
I hope we can flood the US with enough guns and magazines to show that the law will be useless.
Americans, who were mostly hunters back in 1968, were blindsided by the 1968 Gun Control Act.
Today, gun owners are mostly recreational shooters and are well aware of the real agenda of the anti-gun forces, and gun owners are HOPPING MAD! Gun owners today will NOT go softly into that good night!
Now the people with lots of money to spend on ammo have cornered supplies and are hoarding hundreds of thousands of rounds. And are PROUD OF IT. While the folks who have modest or minimal incomes are left out in the cold. I know a lot of people who don’t have a lot of money and who can’t buy ammunition for their firearms. Not even enough to protect themselves and their property for more than a day.
If I was a wealthy man I would have purchased hundreds of thousands of rounds and then redistributed it to my fellow Americans who were in need. I also would have tried to enlist others who were as financially able as myself to do the same thing.
Do you see ANYONE of these so-called CONSERVATIVE gun-owning fat-cat HOARDERS on the internet doing this? All I see them doing is gloating about their ADVANCE PURCHASES and THUMBING THEIR NOSES at the rest of us.
To me there’s not a damned dime’s worth of difference between these 2d Amendment self-defense fat cat anti-tyranny fanatics and the criminals running the government in Washington DC. They are only out for THEMSELVES.
Just look at the videos from BLACK FRIDAY and the mayhem caused by ADDICTED SHOPPERS jumping over the slower ones and stomping them to death. SAME DEAL HERE.
We are doomed as a FREE SOCIETY not because the government is taking our ammo away, but because of the way individuals among us—and WE are supposed to be the enlightened ones— have reacted to that event. We will be known and remembered by the content of our character.
When the SHTF it will be every man for himself and that is why the battle will be LOST. OUR OWN SELFISHNESS and GREED will have defeated us. Mark my words.
Today Janet Napoleano
20 years ago, Janet Reno
Waco
People defending their home from armed attack by a large force of Government Law Enforcement Commandoes. Who knows if one of them wasn’t sitting down drinking coffee when they were attacked by Helicopters, snipers and swat team.
and later on by 9 Bradley Fighting vechiles, 5 engineer 50 ton tanks, 2 Main Battle Tanks, Helicopters and all the snipers the FBI could find..........
- a drone with a missle ain’t crap for these folks.
20 years ago
A lot of the ammo is being bought by non shooters. They are investing in it, just like they bought into the Beanie Baby craze.