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« Another case of armed criminal disarmed by citizen | Main | The media I remember »

Studies on ammo shortages

Posted by David Hardy · 29 March 2009 06:38 PM

Right here.

9 Comments | Leave a comment

periwinkle | March 29, 2009 9:15 PM | Reply

Some may be purchasing ammo for the same reason others are buying gold and silver coins: Fear that the economy may fall into major disaster. If it does, bullets become a commodity for bartering for other necessities.

Tim Weaver | March 29, 2009 10:07 PM | Reply

Outside of rate circumstances, I am unsure I'd be bartering items that can be then used to kill you.

Letalis Maximus, Esq. | March 30, 2009 5:09 AM | Reply

Its real. The helluvit is that some independent gun shop owners are buying out the new shipments at Wal-Mart, marking them up several dollars a box, and putting them on their shelves. Whether this is just profitteering or because the small shops can't get supply any other way or some of both, I don't know. A good friend of mine is a small FFL who just sold a customer a Ruger LCP in .380 and the customer told him that there wasn't any .380 ammunition available anywhere in town - and this is a town of about 400,000 people.

And its not just loaded ammunition. I know a group of competitive handgun shooters (guys who each literally shoot thousands of rounds a year) who bulk order components from a well-known reloading supply house. They just placed an order for 500 pounds of powder and over 2 million primers. The supply house told them: "thanks for the order, and we'll get it to you as soon as we can, but we honestly have no idea when that will be because we are running low on or are out of pretty much everything."

RKM | March 30, 2009 8:10 AM | Reply

"February sales tailed off a bit, to slightly more than 23 percent over average, according to sales figures compiled by the National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF)."

Only because you can't sell what you don't have. Inventories are gone, at least in my state.

Dan Hamilton | March 30, 2009 8:54 AM | Reply

I am glad that I have owned S&W stock since early last year.

It is doing a lot better then my 401K.

Just because you are parnoid doesn't mean they aren't out to get you.

The Dem's and the Anti-Gunners (sorry for being redundant) want power and know that enough of the people will never support them. they have to disarm the people to have any hope of getting the power they want.

Now don't get me wrong the Repub's also want power but they believe that people support their agenda and they trust the public to be armed.

The Dem's fear an armed populace and want to disarm it.

The Repub's want an armed populace.

On the basis of that alone I know who to support.

David McCleary | March 30, 2009 8:59 AM | Reply

Dan

I would not have so much faith in the rep's. Not much was repealed during the Bush years- yes the awb but that was by sunset.

Dan Hamilton | March 30, 2009 4:21 PM | Reply

Of course I don't have much faith in the Repub's.

But the Repub's want an armed populace. Whatever else they are going to do they believe the populace should be armed. They are not afraid of the People. They believe that the People will support them.

That is so much better then the Dem's that there is no compitition. The Dem's are afraid of an armed populace. The only reason they would be afraid is that they believe that the People will not only not support their agenda but will revolt against it. So they want to disarm the People.

Think of the difference.

The Repub's believe that the People will support their agenda and if they don't no problem the People will just vote the Repub's out. No Problems.

The Dem's believe that the people WILL NOT support their agenda. They believe that the People will not just vote them out but revolt against them. What is it about the Dem's agenda that makes them believe that People would be willing to revolt rather then just vote them out. Maybe because with the Dem's agenda the People would not be ABLE to vote the Dem's out.

mike123 | March 30, 2009 4:54 PM | Reply

I don't trust Republicans for several reasons. 2 of which are relevant to prove the point that Republicans oppose gun rights as much as Democrats. The technique they use is more subtle and less in your face.

1) President Bush's Solictor General Amicus stating that shall not be infringed means the government can regulate and ban firearms.

2) In Georgia, our Republican Lt. Gov. Casey Cagle is actively preventing any pro-gun bills from being considered in the Georgia Senate.

Both actions are detrimental to our cause.

On the flip side, Democrat Senators Tester and ???, from Montana forced the DOD policy change on mil-surp brass.

Some Democrats seem to want our vote. Republicans think we have no where to go so they keep peeing on our heads and telling us its raining.

AvgJoe | April 4, 2009 8:07 AM | Reply

Everyone of these "reports" seem to be so slanted it makes me sick and what makes me even more sick the point is missed. That point is Wolf and other Russian ammo is near totally missing from the market. Wolf, Golden Bear, Hot Shot and other Russian ammo is not being put on the market.
Yea OK people are sucking up the ammo as it hits the market. But imported ammo is so limited that what is on the market has been there and is now being released at smoking profits to the seller. New imports are not showing up in the supply chain.
This is a topic that is not being added to the mix.

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