Ammo prices

[Alex Clayton]

This is what I am talking about, eventually the price of 9am and 223 will deter people from buying it.

I spend roughly 100 dollars a week on groceries. At this point 100 rounds of 9 is my grocery money. No one in their right mind will go a week without food to have 100 rds of ammo.

This whole situation is a sounding test to see how far the situation can go.

Our ammo will not come down in price after the election bo matter who is elected. The anti gunners are and will starve us out metaphorically speaking.

Guys the price it's going for is only because people are buying it as fast as it goes out the door. I find it real hard to believe the anti gun people are buying all the ammo so others can't get any. What are they doing? Hauling it to the dump?
When people stop buying it as fast as it comes out of the factory the price drops. When the price starts to drop it snowballs quickly. A LOT of ammo is sitting in storage at places that get first dibs because they buy so much. Speculation. When price starts to drop a lot of it is suddenly dumped to try to beat the price drop, which just drives price further faster. This is far from the first panic shortage yet many seem to act like they never saw this before
It can only stay high as long as some are willing to pay the price it's going for. For those angry try to remember this when the shelves are full and it's on sale. Because when that happens most just ignore it again. One thing that made this one worse was a TON of new people who did not own a gun suddenly woke up and saw calling 911 may not do any good. So they decided to get into having a gun or two.

 

[SharpDog]

Our ammo will not come down in price after the election bo matter who is elected. The anti gunners are and will starve us out metaphorically speaking.

IMHO that's not true, if one side wins then supply & demand will continue as normal. If the other wins there will be manay attacks on the 2A that will try to go around the courts and ammo restritions, inluding price, are just one of those mechanisms.

 

[DustyGmt]

Our ammo will not come down in price after the election bo matter who is elected. The anti gunners are and will starve us out metaphorically speaking.

Why do you say that? Ammo companies and military overruns will always exist, and they will always need to make money. Right now people are panicking so supply is low because demand is high. As soon as demand levels off and people stop buying the price will have to come down, eventually.

 

[BreechFace]

I’ll just sit on the sidelines and wait for it to get back to 20 year lows like it did between late 2016 to early 2020.

Come on guys act like we’ve been here before, time and time again. And for the new people headed through this panic some words of advice. Buy what one needs to have some SD and a little practice Ammo and then after that stop buying. Generate a list of common calibers pricing we were see before this panic and when prices get back to within 10% start dollar cost averaging in to the bottom (the prices that I’ll quote below) and when it does hit the prices listed below start really leaning into personal long term supplies. Save you money now for when Ammo catches up and price reflects it.

Here is what one could get new factory, not reloaded ammo (per round) for before this current panic, when we were seeing 20 year lows on Ammo cost:


.22lr: $0.02-0.03, bulk packs; $0.05-0.07 CCI mini mags and the like

556: $0.27-0.30 brass cased Wolf Gold, m193 and its ilk; $0.18-0.20 steel cases

7.62x39: $0.17-0.20 steel cased

9mm: $0.15-0.20 brass cased FMJ

40S&W: $0.21-0.24 brass cased FMJ

 

[jhb]

Alex Clayton is right, its not a conspiracy, its just supply and demand. this is how it works. more demand than supply and prices go up until those two forces are rebalanced.

 

[GEM]

As usual, we shut down ammo price panic threads. No new info yet. Supply and demand is not an insight anymore.