Ammo shortage turning off new shooters?

[shafter]

I think the shortage is going to be with us for a long while this time around. I just hope those who refuse to buy ammo at these prices aren't sorry they did back when it was "cheap". (What is crazy high right now may seem pretty cheap someday)

 

[itsa pain]

some guys here might be stretching the truth a little .giving away ammo one guy 5000 rds?? so I guess the logic is stockpile a ton of ammo then give it away

 

[Inebriated]

New shooters are probably 50% of the shortage.

 

[frankenstein406]

I think its actually turning the people who wont pay the prices into reloading. or they have a good stock already

 

[shafter]

I'm getting pretty tired of shortsighted people trying to guilt trip those who planned ahead. I have plenty but I'm still buying when I find it. I don't mind overpaying a bit either. I'm sure there was a time when people thought $10/brick of 22 was outrageous. Get it while its still available.

 

[itsa pain]

if I planned ahead for a shortage because of a hurricane and bought all the gasoline within 100 miles of your house and put it in tankers would you congratulate me

 

[Constrictor]

one of our local walmarts got in 700 50 round boxes of ppu 9mm friday. normally they have been getting in 6-30 boxes so this was huge. They sold out in one day but it did last most of the day.
I find it very odd they recieved this amount of 9mm at once.
no 22lf came in either.

 

[rodinal220]

The funny thing about the recent gun buying craze is that many of these folks do not know what is going on yet feel,for some reason,to now own a firearm(s),seek training and stockpile ammo.

I do not know if they are just afraid of speaking their mind,but many of the people I have observed in LGS since Xmas could have been Obama voters and are now feeling the effects of his regime.

I just silently giggle to my self when these new types moan and question why there isn't any ammo for THEIR gun,the ant vs the grasshopper.

 

[beatledog7]

I think two things have been the biggest drivers of recent shortages of both guns and ammo.

1) The thinking by many first-time gun buyers that if they ever hope to own a gun, now's the time to buy one, before it becomes illegal or prohibitively expensive.

2) The thinking of existing gun owners that the new gun owners are going to cause a surge in ammo demand and therefore a shortage. A corollary: the thinking that owning lots of ammo one does not really need when it's hard to find gives one a way to extract money from new gun owners.

So, new gun buyers have driven the "shortage" indirectly. They haven't been the big buyers, but their presence has driven others to make big buys.

 

[SharpsDressedMan]

It's even discouraging OLD shooters!