No primers on store shelves for over a year....

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This was earlier today. I wonder why they are still sitting there along with a significant amount of ammunition?
$160 for a brick of LRP. Sorry, not me.
Interesting that this fairly large gun dealer is also selling guns above MSRP. Capitalism at its best. As in the past, This run will probably end sometime and a slump may occur. Guess they had better get the profit while they can.
 

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If you actually did, good for you, but I don't believe it, especially on the secondary market, because there really isn't one for ammunition when it's plentiful. Private party ammo sales of common cartridges are a thing when there's a shortage and they can turn a profit. Otherwise, people tend to just hang onto it, especially if they paid more than the current retail price. Same with components, the exception being when someone decides to get out of reloading. Likewise, there may be the occasional situation where someone sold the firearm they had in that chambering and no longer have use for it (or are making a package deal selling the ammo cheap with the gun), but being able to "consistently " find new, factory 9mm, 5.56, etc ammo on gunbroker or Armslist for less than wally world and major online retailers are selling for? Not so much.

People do often try to sell things they overpaid for during shortages after the fact to pay down debt, but I've yet to see a flood of below market price factory new ammunition from private party sellers following any of the panics over the last 20 years.

There's absolutely a secondary market after every single shortage. A lot of people aren't going to "just hang onto" ammo that they don't want or use just because they overpaid for it in a panic. The same thing will happen this time. Eventually, the stimulus checks will stop coming and more important things will need to be paid for.

And when the primary market is plentiful with affordable ammo, no one will be buying Joe Fudd's stash of aluminum cased 9mm for anywhere near what they can get it for "new." Decent brass cased 9mm could be found on sale well under $0.20 per last time. Plenty of people were selling their aluminum crap off for less than half that.

And yes, it was consistently. No one said anything about GunBroker or Armslist. You don't find deals like that by looking where everyone else is looking, the same way you don't during a panic.
 
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