For those who truly do not have enough ammo, they better buy a reloader and supplies.
There is very little useful ammo available for purchase.
Common handgun calibers are virtually unavailable.
Really?
https://www.luckygunner.com/handgun/9mm-ammo
https://www.luckygunner.com/handgun/40-s-w-ammo
I will admit that .45ACP and .357Mag aren’t easy to find but that’s because they’re most US-centric rounds and thus can’t be sourced and imported from overseas to fill demand easily. If you have a 9mm, you can find ammo for it though you may have to look for more than 20 minutes.
Reloading supplies are scarce as well now.
As well as most EBR ammo.
And when this is over, (and someday it will be) and prices come down and availability goes back to normal, remember to stock up.
Go on the basis that, if the local fire marshal would not flip out over your stash not being in a bermed ammo bunker, then you haven't bought enough yet.
For those who truly do not have enough ammo, they better buy a reloader and supplies.
There is very little useful ammo available for purchase.
Common handgun calibers are virtually unavailable.
FYI, critical reloading supplies such small rifle and pistol primers are very difficult to find. While projectiles are available, they’re hard to find as well... same goes for powder.
Anyone who DOES NOT own a firearm and wants one asap, i recommend they seek out a caliber that isn’t that common these days... something like .270, etc. which can still be found and can still be reloaded (large rifle primers are easy to find)
Final word; you stock up BEFORE crisis hit... not during them. All of us in the firearms world learned this in 2008... and there were lessons to be learned again after sandy hook and again in 2016 when everyone thought HRC would be reelected. This is the most prolonged and worse I have seen it with no end in sight however.
I've been reloading since 1999. I have tooling for most of my cartridges. My most frequently used supplies are Win 231 powder and small pistol primers. The primers are unavailable locally. When I first started reloading, a sleeve of 1000 primers in 10 packages of 100 each was $20. A friend in Tennessee just coughed up $165 for 1,000 small pistol primers. My last trip to the store showed only large magnum rifle primers in stock.
Boxes of 9mm (50 rds) are running $25 to $40 for ball range ammo. It was $6.50 for a box of 50 9mm when I first started in 1999. 45ACP Speer Lawman 50 rd was $11.99 and it was cost effective to reload with a net reload cost of $6.50 to reload 50 rounds. The economics have shifted.
For most of the past 5 years, I could buy a bucket of 9mm 115 gr (350 rds) for $89 at Sportsmanswarehouse.
I was in our Cabelas a couple weeks ago. There was .270, .300 Mag, and 6.5 Creedmoor ammo on the rifle side. I didn’t look too deep, but front and center on the handgun side was a bunch of .41 Mag ammo.
So if you’re into slightly offbeat calibers you should be ok. The Creedmoor surprised me, though. That’s a very popular chambering these days.
You can find it. It's expensive, but it's out there. Ammoseek is a good resource.
reloading supplies are gone too. Fortunately, I have no reason to be a panic buyer of ammo or loading supplies.