I watch a site called ‘gunbrokerdotcom’, and there is a continuous supply of .22lr for sale. At any given point in time, there are easily 30,000 rounds for sale.
The problem is the price...triple and quadruple normal prices. And this is a bidding site...so people are regularly bidding and buying at these inflated prices.
With this much profit to be made, I suspect that anyone who works in a Wally World gun dept., or behind the counter at Dicks, etc. is going to buy the stuff up for retail, and immediately auction it off on an auction site.
The box I got at Dick’s was only $25 for 525 rounds. That’s about normal for the hollow points I think.
“I suspect that anyone who works in a Wally World gun dept...is going to buy the stuff up for retail, and immediately auction it off on an auction site.”
We had an ammo shortage in upstate NY four years ago.
Neighbor and I befriended the kid at the ammo dept and he would call us before he stocked the shelves. 20 minutes later we were wheeling our ammo out to the truck.