Ammunition Shortages Aren't Limited to THR'ers

[ArfinGreebly]

Confederate Yankee

Yup.

His screed is here and covers the ground pretty well.

The essential point is this: military requirements are not a primary factor in any LE ammo shortages.

I was unaware of the seperation of manufacturing facilities. I inquired about this with my local ammo pusher, who acknowledged this, and further said (paraphrasing) that 1) China is a factor, 2) military requirements do apply some pressure to metals availability, 3) none of this keeps him from getting ammo at good prices.

He also remarked that some departments got themselves into logistical trouble by holding off on ordering, anticipating that prices would come down some, and then had to hurry-up order some, creating backlogs.

He then re-stated 3) none of this keeps him from getting ammo at good prices. He proceeded to sell me a hundred rounds of 5.56 NATO at just above what I would spend for it at Wal*Mart.

He's got shelves and cases of the stuff.

Wal*Mart has had 200-count Federal blue box bricks of .223 in stock for three weeks running.

Sportsman's Warehouse has been okay, but their prices have spiked. Shocker there.

My never-out hardware store source has been out for weeks.

Go figure.

 

[Kalashnikov]

They're not running out of ammo, at least not .30 cal. I worked at the ASP (ammunition supply point for civvies) at Camp Lejuene and have counted over 1,000,000 rounds of a single lot number of .308. Similar situation in Iraq as I was just at the ASP for Al Asad the other day, thought granted I didn't count the ammo, merely saw some rather large stacks of it. Though .50 cal can be scarce back in the rear at times, mostly because so much is shipped out here.

 

[308win]

I have never shopped for ammunition in Pataskala but I have never seen subsonic anything except .22 in Columbus so I don't know where the letter writer would get it rather than catalog. As for the ammo shortage, Buckeye Outdoors has a large inventory as a rule but I was there a month or so ago looking for 748 and they had two bricks of low price .223 on an endcap; they used to have pallets of it.

 

[CU74]

He only needs 40 rounds, for his "sniper rifle"?

What a load of bovine excrement..............

 

[USAFrenegade]

As an Iraqi Freedom Vet, 40 rounds wouldn't even last half of a major fire fight, sniper or not. I wish my deployment was kooshy to where I could call home after the first day, I had to wait 2 weeks for my first phone call. I agree with every one else this sounds prety made up to me.

 

[Dr. Peter Venkman]

Yeah, 40 rounds of subsonic .50.

 

[Double Naught Spy]

Why would anyone arrive at the conclusion that the military is short of ammo because of an editorial posted in some newspaper where a supposed person is reporting that a supposed family member soldier is making a request for an extremely low quantity of atypical ammo to be used specifically in a very unique capacity (sniper)?

I will admit that the military may not have a tremendous amount of subsonic .308 ammo, but then again, they don't have a lot of uses for the underpowered round either. However, to equate that with the military having an ammo shortage is just silly.

A buddy of mine wrote and asked for me to send him a Surefire. Maybe the military is running short of flashlights as well?

 

[Neo-Luddite]

Apart from this thread in specific, lots of ammo has been shipped (yes, unlawfully) to troops in Iraq from the folks back home. Supply chain was not always handled well at the beginning, but is (so I've heard) much better now.