My only recent experience:
I stopped at the gun store yesterday to order a case of an obscure flavor of Winchester shot shells. No problem. Will be here next week.
I saw a box of .22LR on the floor behind the counter at Dick’s Sporting Goods (28th St Grand Rapids). The clerk passed me one, and I asked if I could buy two. He snapped at me as if I’d asked for a bazooka. Libtards and firearm counters don’t mix.
I have a “friend” who, quite out if character” was smart enough to buy hundreds or thousands of rounds in .22, .223, .32acp, .380, 9mm, .40 S&W, 45acp etc. about five years ago. This “friend” is actually tempted to sell some but it may never be commercially available again so, “he” thinks he’ll hang on to it.
The Feds don’t use much 22LR—so, where the hell is it?
They used to stamp it out by the BILLIONS.
The ammo market has been hijacked by ammo dealers who are selling it for 4-5x normal prices.
As long as there are people will to pay $800 for 1000 rounds of 9mm ... Dicks, Walmart, et. al. will struggle to get ammo.
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In my area for the last six months or more there has been almost nothing in the local Big Box chains.
At best they have some bird shot and a few dusty boxes of antiquated calibers that look like they were last used in Africa during the 19th century.
Friends who live more out in the country report their local Walmart regularly gets some ammo in but it goes fast the minute it hits the shelf.
Local gun shops get a few boxes of popular calibers now and then but there is a big, big mark-up.
Also, there is almost always a waiting list and regular customers get preference.
But my local indoor range is still selling range ammo to shooters at what seem to be near normal prices.
Example: 50 round box Magtech .38 Special FMC for $20.
No limit for shooters that I am aware of but I have never tested the upper limits.
Range ammo is not for sale to carry-out customers.
We have only ourselves to blame on this. Ammo scalping is the most lucrative activity on the internet other than pornography. People are stockpiling ammo and components and reselling it at double or triple the price online or at the next gun show. You can sell it in the parking lot. You don’t even need to rent a table. MidwayUSA will not use backorders so it becomes first come, first served and large quantities go instantly. I get product announcements and I cannot act instantly before they are out. Someone else beats me to it every time. It reminds me of the high frequency trading scandal on wall street. Someone has a system to get in line first and they are making millions doing it.
I picked up some Remington 9mm at Walmart yesterday. They had more ammo in stock than they have for the past few months.
Some kinds of people prefer to get hysterical and pay several times the producer prices to questionable characters for ammunition and are doing so. I prefer to stock up on popcorn and watch the funny crazy show.
Supplies will be available for far less sooner than most sweating, twitching customers expect. Until then, I’ll keep what was purchased in a more reasonable market in case really needed and postpone getting hunting licenses and attending the collective, looky-loo, social club firing range for a year. No sales until then. Too bad revenues will be down. ;-)
"I've got all the ammo I need...you - not so much."
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I tried the link, and my Kaspersky AV went nuts with Virus alerts.
Will it show up at a govt auction?