Poll : Ammo/Guns "flying off the shelf"?

[wildography]

In the past few weeks, I have seen several news articles that describes how ammunition, and to a lesser extent - firarms, are being bought in such quantities that many stores are having a hard time keeping ammunition in stock... are you seeing that in your area?

[nell67]

Yea,at the store I work at,2 guys purchased all the .22 ammo they saw on the shelves,they missed the shells on the "pog" counters,but they got quite a haul of ammo with what they got.

[crashdive123]

Several places that usually sell it for less can't seem to keep much in stock. Mostly what I am having difficulty in finding are the bulk quantites 500 to 1000 round cases. It's there, but you have to look pretty hard.

[Rick]

.45, .40, 9mm and 22 are nearly impossible to find. Some of the larger calibers like 30.06 are pretty scarce, too. Shotgun in all calibers is still pretty easy to find.

[oly]

Seen a person trying to get .38 and they told him good luck finding them.

[Kankujoe]

I was at the Tulsa Arms Show last weekend and .380acp if you could find it was selling for as much as $70 per 50 round box. One table was selling CCI minimags .22lr for $16 per 100 round box. Both 7.62x39 & .223 was going for $400 per 1000.

[Ken]

*Makes mental note: Buy more ammo this week.*

*Asks self question: "Where am I gonna' put ANOTHER gun and ammo safe?"*

[crashdive123]

Safe room in the new house maybe?

[Ken]

Safe room in the new house maybe?

The plans are in the works. I just may have to cut down on the size of the workshop.

[crashdive123]

Something like this?

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[Ole WV Coot]

It just ain't to be had anywhere around here. The only thing you can find are skeet loads. Imagine sticking a 12ga in somebody's ear just to get their attention. I haven't fired my usual 150 rounds per week in a month but I am busy looking for baseball size rocks.

[Ken]

Something like this?

I wish. My honey has already accepted the small gun safe in the bedroom and the LARGE one in the safe room downstairs. She's accepted all the gear and supplies. She's accepted the generator, the food and water storage, and the BOBS. She's actually excited about the garden - her green thumb is alot greener than mine.

Now - how do I convince her we need an addition on the house for the stuff I still want to add?

I was thinking ..... Maybe a few new rooms at ground level with more basement room for me ......

[Chris]

I was looking online comparing prices for 357 ammo, but every store I found was sold out.

[Sourdough]

This is your government speaking: Please Pay attention, we said we would not take your firearms, The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled the peoples right to own firearms..................

NO BODY said you had the right to AMMO.

Which would be imposable to control, the existing Millions of firearms, or future sales of ammo.

You go before the people and say: You can own a thousand firearms, own five thousand firearms, Continue to hunt with the NEW ammo, that has primers that self destruct in 300 to 400 days after manufacture. NO one is saying you can't own firearms, no one is saying you can't hunt. Anyone caught with old style ammo will go to jail for ten years.

When we want to make you neutered, we just issue a 6 months moratorium on new ammo sales. Then we wait 6 months, and give you 90 days to turn in all firearms.

[Ken]

News and Press Releases

Ammunition in High Demand

Winchester Ammunition 4/7/2009

"Winchester Ammunition, like other ammunition manufacturers, has seen the demand for our products increase significantly since last fall. To meet that increased demand, our operations are running 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Our team is literally working around the clock to make quality ammunition available for purchase. We remain absolutely committed to meeting the growing needs of our customers."

[Rick]

Exactly. This isn't a government control thing. This is a paranoia level hoarding that the manufacturers can't keep up with. This is a marketing dream come true for them. They couldn't buy this kind of frenzy with advertising if they tried.

[crashdive123]

Paranoia? Who's paranoid?

*What's that? Another 20,000 rounds? Yes dear.*

[Sourdough]

I want to be clear that I am not paranoid about the government taking action. My point is if you buy a new gun, you should buy a fair amount of ammo for it. I have about 20 five gal. jerry jugs of gasoline for the same reason. Gun are tools, and like my chainsaws, log splitter, snow machine, emergency generators, they are useless tools without fuel.

I agree with Rick, that said, now that they know people well pay more, don't expect .22LR to go back to $00.85 per box. All ammo prices will stay higher than it was. This was a good wake-up warning for people. Most of the gun stores in Alaska have no ammo, or little ammo. Sales here are up 800%.

The one thing I am paranoid about is world change......Old people don't like change, not even good change, old people want things steady and stable.

We have massive world change going on. Massive.....

[VampireRanger676]

i know right i mean i go and buy two handguns and try and buy couple hundred rounds od ammo and they call the cops lmao jking

[SARKY]

The nut case anti gunners feel EMPOWERED because the rule the house, senate and their Messiah is the prez. As such they are trying to push thru all these redicilous laws pretaining to ammo.