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jmra wrote: I've had LEOs try to buy ammo from me. They claim they don't have enough ammo on hand for the officers to qualify. Maybe that's just a line to gain empathy, I don't know. I do know they didn't talk me out of any.

that's scary...

K.Mooneyham wrote:

pbwalker wrote:

K.Mooneyham wrote:Well, SOMEBODY has bought a LOT of .223/5.56mm in the last month or so. I'm curious about something...has anyone on here been to a gun show RECENTLY (since the Sandy Hook incident)? Does it seem like vendors there have .223/5.56mm ammo for sale? I'm not asking about prices, just availability. I know that some are buying to put it away for a "rainy day", and I do have some for that purpose myself...and MANY people have bought ARs and other .223 rifles recently...but there was PLENTY of ammo and now there is VERY little...it had to have gone SOMEWHERE. Did the "resellers" buy up a substantial chunk of it...and I don't mean retailers, but rather the folks who resell at gunshows and at "Guns America", etc.

EDITED TO ADD: Thank you chasfm11 for the clarification.

Well, I can tell you that some "people" ( ) have friends that work at Academy and get a heads up prior to the pallet being brought out to the sales floor.

Okay, that's cool, I figure some folks would get heads up about ammo shipments, but are you buying up thousands of rounds at a pop, though? I'm just trying to figure out where its all going. A lot of people may have bought ARs though those are getting hard to come by too, and not all of them or even most of them have time to spend all day waiting for shipments to come in, AND they don't have the money to buy it all up at one go. TENS OF MILLIONS of rounds have to be getting churned out right now, I'd imagine the ammo factories that make this stuff are all pretty much running three shifts (and if they aren't, well they sure are losing out on money to be made)...and yet the shelves are still bare no matter where you go...its just not adding up.

Manufacturers are running 24/7/365 right now. They still can't keep up with the demand.

There are four of us that are shopping for each other. So if one guy finds something I need, he buys it and let's me know the cost. Same applies vice versa. So it's nice to have four sets of eyes shopping for me. That being said, I am sure we're a drop in the bucket in the scheme of things. 4000 rounds (1000 x 4 people) in a week is probably 0.00000004% of the overall sales.

I honestly haven't the slightest clue where it's all going. PD's hedging? Turn and burn sellers on Gunbroker? Very rich hoarders? You're guess is as good as mine.

K.Mooneyham wrote:Well, SOMEBODY has bought a LOT of .223/5.56mm in the last month or so. I'm curious about something...has anyone on here been to a gun show RECENTLY (since the Sandy Hook incident)? Does it seem like vendors there have .223/5.56mm ammo for sale? I'm not asking about prices, just availability. I know that some are buying to put it away for a "rainy day", and I do have some for that purpose myself...and MANY people have bought ARs and other .223 rifles recently...but there was PLENTY of ammo and now there is VERY little...it had to have gone SOMEWHERE. Did the "resellers" buy up a substantial chunk of it...and I don't mean retailers, but rather the folks who resell at gunshows and at "Guns America", etc.

EDITED TO ADD: Thank you chasfm11 for the clarification.

Well, I can tell you that some "people" ( ) have friends that work at Academy and get a heads up prior to the pallet being brought out to the sales floor.

CC Italian wrote:It's the hoarders and panic buyers Imo. I saw a guy in academy 3 days ago who grabbed all the fmj pistol ammo they had in stock. I said to him are u stocking up on your calibers and he said he already had his. That all the ammo was going to be sold to family, friends and who ever would pay for it. People are buying hundreds and thousands of rounds and then trying to turn a profit by selling to all the ocd panic buyers. I know a ffl/collector who has 7 ars for sale. None have cost him more then a thousand and he has sold 2 so far for over 3k.

Supply and demand...nothing wrong with that.

steve817 wrote:

Wodathunkit wrote:Lots of hoarders also. I bought my daughter a 22 the other day. I went to Academy on Wednesday morning and got a box of ammo for her ($18.95 for 525 rds). They had several boxes. Someone came by and took the remaining boxes. We are doing this to ourselves.....

Not being able to find .22 LR is really blowing my mind.

Not me. The .22LR is so versatile, the reason people are picking it up vary wildly. For one, where else can you shoot 500+ rounds for $20? I love my .22's and it's all I have been shooting as of late. It was cheap enough, I was picking up 1000+ rounds every time I stepped foot in to Academy. I'm at the point where I've got over 10k rounds of .22...you don't realize it until you run out of room in the safe.

You also have your doomsday / prepper crowd that picks it up because if it's ability to take small game without having to carry extra weight of a larger caliber and heavier rifle. Rabbit, Squirrel, Snake, and Whitetail (illegal, but if society collapses, who cares). The doomsday / prepper crowd is growing and more prevalent today from what I can remember in the past. I would venture to say that with today's "state of the Union", they are picking up any and all they can.