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I had to go up to Arkansas over the week end on some family business. Went into a Walmart to check on ammo. Basicly the same story as here in Houston, almost no ammo. Really shotgun only.

My father-in-law knew the store manager and during a conversation I asked him what management was saying about the problems with ammo. He stated that last week he was told that Walmart was not cutting any further PO's for ammo until the manufactuers got all of their back orders cleaned up. He said that his store has PO's out there that are 3 months old. No new PO's was company wide, not just his store.

Based on this conversation, I do not believe that large sellers of ammo are receiving any special treatment from the producers. Nor is it a credit thing. It looks to me like the producers are simply overwhelmed with orders and at this time they are either not willing, or most likely not able to increase the output of their factories based on a short term burst of orders. If this level of demand lasts for any length of time, like several years, I am sure that they will do everything that they can to increase their production to catch up.

In the mean time, ammo will continue to be in short supply.