Why is the ammo situation in Canada so horble??????

AMMO SHORTAGES;

This subject comes up on a regular basis....
Simply put. it is too costly and too time consuming a process to get ammo approved for importation into Canada....

Simply reading through the regulations will clearly illustrate my point

The ironic thing is that a lot of ammo you see in the US was sold there by our company.

John
 
johnone said:
AMMO SHORTAGES;

This subject comes up on a regular basis....
Simply put. it is too costly and too time consuming a process to get ammo approved for importation into Canada....

Simply reading through the regulations will clearly illustrate my point

The ironic thing is that a lot of ammo you see in the US was sold there by our company.

John
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that just kills me to hear that
 
An American ammo company that I used to buy components from sent me an e-mail, begging me to buy. he said that after obamma was elected, there was a huge run on ammo and components. Now nobody is buying becasue they have so much horded. He re-ordered a lot of stock, thinking that busienss was good - just in time to find sales have stopped.

He is worried for his business.

I wish i could help him. prices have never been better down there.
 
Last few times i've cross the line i've seen signs out side of pawn shops and similar "places of business"


!!! We Buy AMMO!!!


high demand meet recession
 
Ganderite said:
An American ammo company that I used to buy components from sent me an e-mail, begging me to buy. he said that after obamma was elected, there was a huge run on ammo and components. Now nobody is buying becasue they have so much horded. He re-ordered a lot of stock, thinking that busienss was good - just in time to find sales have stopped.

He is worried for his business.

I wish i could help him. prices have never been better down there.
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I remember that same thing happening after the great primer famine of the early 90's (around there sometime)
Shortly afterwards, I started going to a gunshow south of Seattle. Flats of 5000 primers were $55. :eek::dancingbanana:
 
I remember that 90's famine, caused by the first Middle East war under old man Bush.Primmers, Powder and ammo were almost impossible to come by.We went to Spokane that Spring and happened to be there at the time of a gun show .There was hundreds of tables and everyone looking for the same things. We went into the White Elephant and lucked out,the owners son opened a case of IMR4350 and somehow I was at the head of the line of about 30 for 12 cans. He gave everyone one, till it was gone.
If memory serves me right that drought lasted till te end of that war which was short.
 
Garand said:
I gather you mean "horrible"?

If you reload, it's not! It's really that simple.
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I reload for every caliber I shoot and was a little put back the other day when I went into WSS in Winnipeg asked for a specific couple of powders to which the answer was no and after some more useless discourse was told they had no powder of any kind, all sold.

Me -"When you going to get more? " gun counter dude- "Don't know", Me-"What's going on?" Dude- "supply and demand". Me -"I guess it's pointless me being in your store". Scene ends with me walking to my car thinking I just wasted 1 hour roundtrip.
 
mmattockx said:
Additional to this, Canada is a small market, so volumes are not high enough to lower prices and justify increased supplies.

Mark
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You know, I'm finally gonna call BS on these types of statements. Sorry you had to be the lucky recipient.;)

We (Canada) have roughly 10% of the population of North America. There is not a manufacturer or supplier anywhere that would turn their nose up at what is conceivably 10% of their business. It might even be a higher percentage now that the American market is saturated, plus there might be a good profit to be made selling here as we Canadians like to pay more for almost any goods.:rolleyes:

Funny how a demand for almost any other type of goods in Canada is met with an adequate supply, while ammo seems to make it's way across at just the right volume to keep us hungry. Must be some quirk in the global economy..........
 
Garand said:
Geez, I haven't had thay problem in Alberta. Between gunshows and gun stores here you can generally find anything you need these days.
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I don't know about that. I still am having problems finding small rifle mag primers, large and small pistol primers, any different types of powders and some brass.
 
joe-nwt said:
You know, I'm finally gonna call BS on these types of statements. Sorry you had to be the lucky recipient.;)

We (Canada) have roughly 10% of the population of North America. There is not a manufacturer or supplier anywhere that would turn their nose up at what is conceivably 10% of their business. It might even be a higher percentage now that the American market is saturated, plus there might be a good profit to be made selling here as we Canadians like to pay more for almost any goods.:rolleyes:

Funny how a demand for almost any other type of goods in Canada is met with an adequate supply, while ammo seems to make it's way across at just the right volume to keep us hungry. Must be some quirk in the global economy..........
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10% is very small when you look at the hurdles that must be jumped to sell that 10%. If it was as easy as selling ammo in the US, then we wouldn't have nearly as many supply problems.

Are those other goods regulated into non-existence by the feds?

Mark
 
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Hey Mr. Harper, if you can remove the gun registry, why can't you toss this boon-doggle nrcan into the toilet and flush-it as well.
 
joe-nwt said:
You know, I'm finally gonna call BS on these types of statements. Sorry you had to be the lucky recipient.;)

We (Canada) have roughly 10% of the population of North America. There is not a manufacturer or supplier anywhere that would turn their nose up at what is conceivably 10% of their business. It might even be a higher percentage now that the American market is saturated, plus there might be a good profit to be made selling here as we Canadians like to pay more for almost any goods.:rolleyes:

Funny how a demand for almost any other type of goods in Canada is met with an adequate supply, while ammo seems to make it's way across at just the right volume to keep us hungry. Must be some quirk in the global economy..........
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I'd be very surprised if Canada "conceivably" made up 10% of ammo sales in North America. I imagine that that are single states in the US that outshot Canada by 1.5x, 2x, 3x and higher. I think this is a situation where population size doesn't always translate into sales.

I'm just thinking outloud.... I have no evidence to support these claims FYI.
 
saskcop said:
I don't know about that. I still am having problems finding small rifle mag primers, large and small pistol primers, any different types of powders and some brass.
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I shot a 3 gun match in Lethbridge on the 12/13 June and a local dealer who had set up a stand, had at least 20,000 primers with him plus guns & mall ninja tactical stuff. That was just before I bought 5,000 small pistol primers from him. It was a great weekend, 5,000 primers a plaque for 2nd in Rimfire and a 1st in Revolver class. It is out there.
 
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