ammo situation worsening.... and worsening..... and worsening ....... May 5, updated

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I've been checking out stores in Maine, quite a bit of shotgun and rifle ammo, very little pistol ammo and 22 is almost extinct. Cabelas have a 100 round limit on 22 ammo.

I only had to hit four stores to find two different brands of turkey loads in 20 gauge.
 
powerbaitron said:
LMAO only time I have ever heard wholesale sports and low prices in the same sentence. The Americans were probably lost and asked someone where the Cabelas was. Whenever I want to be treated like a second rate citizen I just go to wholesale sports. I sometimes feel invisible after being ignored by the staff. I then stroll to cabelas and am treated like gold.
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I found a fair amount of stuff at wss to be cheaper then cabelas.
 
Back to the ammo thing, U.S. congress is looking at stopping the feds from hoarding ammo. Obviously its BAD in the U.S. if congress is taking time to address it. Since most of our ammo comes from the U.S. I am not sure why guys here, think the shortage in the U.S. will have no affect on us, in time. Orders are trickling in but thats because they were placed months ago, if not years. Try placing a new order, and see how far that gets one.
 
dizzy said:
Back to the ammo thing, U.S. congress is looking at stopping the feds from hoarding ammo. Obviously its BAD in the U.S. if congress is taking time to address it. Since most of our ammo comes from the U.S. I am not sure why guys here, think the shortage in the U.S. will have no affect on us, in time. Orders are trickling in but thats because they were placed months ago, if not years. Try placing a new order, and see how far that gets one.
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No one seems to have much problem getting ammo, Ammo from the U.S. may be harder to get but I think our suppliers are getting ammo from elsewhere and starting new contacts and lines of suppliers. I have not had any problem as of yet. I hear that reloading supplies are short so hopefully the same thing will happen there and we get new and possibly cheaper suppliers! Time to break the dependence on the U.S. for our equipment, they are starting to falter!
 
My son told me today he heard a discussion on some dealer in the US that had 50 million rounds on order, hoped he would get 10 million this year. The story was on Fox news.

Now I must say that would lean to there being a shortage in the US.

I have more primers than my LGS.
 
dizzy said:
Back to the ammo thing, U.S. congress is looking at stopping the feds from hoarding ammo. Obviously its BAD in the U.S. if congress is taking time to address it. Since most of our ammo comes from the U.S. I am not sure why guys here, think the shortage in the U.S. will have no affect on us, in time. Orders are trickling in but thats because they were placed months ago, if not years. Try placing a new order, and see how far that gets one.
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Why are you so adamant that the sky is falling?

You are like the guy yelling fire in an elevator because someone is smoking.

Trying to convince others here to panic is not helping anyone.

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bobdbldr said:
No one seems to have much problem getting ammo, Ammo from the U.S. may be harder to get but I think our suppliers are getting ammo from elsewhere and starting new contacts and lines of suppliers. I have not had any problem as of yet. I hear that reloading supplies are short so hopefully the same thing will happen there and we get new and possibly cheaper suppliers! Time to break the dependence on the U.S. for our equipment, they are starting to falter!
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+1000
 
condomboy said:
If the price was $0.40 a round, then when supply dwindles it goes to $0.80 a round and is in demand at that price, what is to stop the price from coming down?
Look at gas... is the price REALLY that high because of costs or shortage? it was at one point, now it's just everyone is used to that price and we reminice about when it was under a dollar a litre
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Absolutely nothing - I even said it probably would.

That being said, I personally don't believe ammunition will ever be as cheap as it was last year. It may be more expensive this year, but next year it may come down - but I highly doubt it will come back down to the price it was last year.

I don't get why everyone is so worried about ammunition prices going up. There will ALWAYS be ammunition - and ammunition for the mid-long term is almost guaranteed to go up in price. That being the case, the only people who should be upset - should be the people who don't have any ammunition.
 
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This confirms my suspicion that ammo prices will likely never come down, and the price dynamic we are seeing now is a result of large number of new buyers entering into the US guns and ammo market - and not just a handful of speculators:

cnsnews.com/blog/gregory-gwyn-williams-jr/46455-background-checks-gun-purchases-each-day-under-obama

There have been 72,005,482 background checks for gun purchases since President Obama took office, according to data released by the FBI.

In 2009, the FBI conducted 14,033,824 background checks. If we subtract the month of January (Obama did not assume office until the end of the month) we get 12,819,939.

The FBI conducted 14,409,616 background checks in 2010, 16,454,951 in 2011, and 19,592,303 in 2012.

Add to that the first four months of 2013 (2,495,440, 2,309,393, 2,209,407 and 1,714,433 respectively) and the total number of background checks under President Obama comes to 72,005,482.

Obama has been President for 1,550 days. That works out to 46,455 background checks for gun purchases each day.
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