My take on the ammo shortage is it’s a combination of hoarding by the general public, government agency contracts for millions of rounds designed to effectively remove ammo from the shelves so the masses cannot use their newly acquired weapons, and a complicit ammo industry which will never cross the federal government and has been hamstrung with the task of fulfilling huge contracts from all the fed agencies that take years of production runs to fulfill. Even the postal service has been ordering millions of rounds. These contracts take precedence over production runs designed for retail sales to the general public. Like the high price of gasoline due to the falling value of the dollar, the price for ammo will never return to pre-market manipulation levels. One box of .38 special runs $35 for 50. Who can afford to go to the gun range now?
4Runner, as good a take as any I’ve seen. End result is a bunch of people with guns and no ammo...Who know Pat Paulson was so ahead of his day.. When he ran for president (spoof) he said “Guns aren’t the problem, it is the ammo!
Think of the thrills of sneaking up on a grizzly with an unloaded gun!”
.38 Special is 25 cents/rd all day long....30 cents if you’re blind and slow.
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Consider changing caliber or reloading.
If you have been saving your brass over the years, it is relatively inexpensive to reload, if you switched to 9mm, I’ve seen steel cased ammo for less than $10 a box.