Those rounds, of course, are marked up and bought by anxiously waiting customers. In fact, it has gotten so bad that some of these scalpers have gone so far as to obtain delivery schedules from employees at large stores like Walmart.
They arrive at the store at a specific time to get the choice pickings. I spoke to two sporting-goods employees at my local Walmart who freely informed me that ammunition usually arrives on Tuesdays and is typically restocked at 10 a.
Late in the spring of , the buying frenzy kicked into high gear and our shelves were quickly picked clean. Due to the size and frequency of the orders KTP places with both manufacturers and distributors, stock is regularly replenished…Several employees began observing the same faces in the store on an almost daily basis, buying up as much ammunition as they could carry, depleting what had been restocked the night before.
His initial speculation was that they were reselling the ammo online at places like GunBroker. A quick search of these sites by his team helped verify that hunch. The firearms industry welcomed about 8 million new gun owners into the fold during alone, according to the National Shooting Sports Foundation. That is million in unexpected rounds right off the top. January set the all-time single-month record for FBI firearms background checks , which is our closest measurement for tracking potential firearms sales.
You can, however, remember these times and vote with your wallet, if you feel retailers are being unreasonable. This is a BETA experience. You may opt-out by clicking here. More From Forbes. Nov 11, , am EST.
Nov 10, , pm EST. Nov 10, , am EST. Nov 9, , pm EST. Edit Story. An American Bomber Visited Malaysia. Follow me on Twitter or LinkedIn. Ammo prices would go down except that people believe they need rds of each caliber this only drives the prices up, if everyone would stop buying ammo the price would drop because of you guessed it supply vs demand, so stop catering to these sellers and only buy what you need.
Great article and you did hit the nail on the head. I still see customers walk in and go directly to the firearms department and walk out with their limit of three boxes everyday. I can not blame anyone for the uncertain feeling this administration brings upon the United States citizens and not knowing what unconstitutional gun and ammo grabbing laws await. We are letting the manufactures off too easily. Laziness, money hogging, or whatever, they have left us venerable to this by not improving and expanding their capacity.
IF they were truly 2A partners with us, or even just good business people, they would have made the proper capital investments to meet future demands. ALL businesses have to make these decisions and the ammo industry are obviously poor, poor business people.
Just look at all the buy-ups, bankruptcies, and poorly manufactured products in the industry. Dozens of industries have 8 million new customers every year. Those businesses respond to meet the new level of demand. These past couple of years only show the incompetence of the people making decisions for the future of their respective companies. Their business is literally life and death, and constitutional. Your email address will not be published. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment.
This is an update to the article originally published on January 24, , and also updated on April 14, , and then again on July 6 The great ammo shortage of has turned into an even worse ammo shortage of Now with the election cycle over and quickly approaching quarter four in the buying cycle, we can really start to take a step back and figure out not only what happened, but answer the following question: Will ammunition prices go back down?
August Update: Many of you have heard at this point that the Biden Administration has signed a ban on the import of Russian ammunition. The hardest hit calibers will be the following: 7. The rest of the article remains unchanged. Why is ammo so expensive There are several factors leading to higher ammo prices, to include more gun owners than ever before, more expensive materials, panic buying, and more.
There is no end in sight to the increased cost of ammo. That is, ammo manufacturers have seemingly gotten caught up, but only on certain calibers. The problem, is that there are only certain calibers like this. And I guess another problem is that the price is still rising. The rest of the handgun cartridges? Good luck. And rifle cartridges: The same rings true for the rifle calibers. The components are more expensive: Why is the ammunition so expensive?
Why would they buy primers for more money and sell them for less? When will ammo prices drop? Those are just the retailers. More Mouths to Feed: And finally, we get to the core issue of this entire thing, which is that there are more mouths, er, guns, to feed.
I think. I just answered all of your pertinent questions. Most of them place limits on how much you can buy. As do the online retailers. Conclusion: When will ammo prices come back down?
Comments Great article!! Appreciate what you do. Great article. That, in turn, prompts other gun owners to do the same. Addressing the current ammunition shortage, Oliva said, "People walked into their local gun stores One guy comes back and grabs two or three boxes, the next guy grabs two or three boxes, and the guy behind him grabs four or five.
That just starts snowballing a little bit, like what we saw last spring with toilet paper. He said the issue was compounded when second-hand resellers began loading up on ammo to sell at flea markets and gun shows at steeps markups, which in turn influenced retailers and suppliers to mark up their prices.
All those issues were worsened by pandemic-related workforce shortages and supply chain issues, which drove the prices "up and up and up," Woodbury said. But when you're a target shooter or a tactical shooter, you're shooting 1, rounds in a weekend. He estimated the ammunitions that fly off shelves, such as 9mm, 10mm,.
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