Is Handgun Ammo Coming Back?

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People are still having a tough time getting handgun ammo, but I'm hearing rumors that it's coming back.

Is Georgia Arms still a good place to get ammo?

Thanks.
 
I get most of my ammo from ammunitiontogo, and I've noticed the past few weeks that their 9mm and .40 offerings are coming up in quantity and down in price, so I think things are starting to stabilize a bit - still have a ways to go, but getting better I think.
 
What is causing the problems? Or is it still just people buying up everything they can since Obama was elected?
 
Walmart in several towns in CT can't keep ammo on the shelves. It goes within a day of being put on the shelves.

People are stock piling because of the uncertainty.
 
Cause you are in the Socialist nether regions of the country. Folks are scared in all parts but especially those that lean left and have socialist state governments.
 
Go to a gun show. There is a more freaking pistol ammo there that you can imagine.

The big problem is that there were a lot of folks buying up all the ammo after Obama got elected. They figured they were going to make a fortune on selling ammo after there was none to be had.

Now that is appears (for the time being) that Obama is not going to do a whole lot with guns, ammo prices are stabilizing and even going down slightly.
 
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What is causing the problems? Or is it still just people buying up everything they can since Obama was elected?
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Scared people hording & a war going on. I seem to recall that each soldier is required to go through a couple of hundred rounds per week just for practice or something like that.
 
People are still having a tough time getting handgun ammo...
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Maybe where you are, but not so much around here. With plans to hit the range last Sunday, I went by Wal-Mart for ammo. They had more than enough of every caliber I was planning to shoot. Of course, the shelves weren't spilling over with every caliber. I don't shoot .380, so they may have been out, but I have no way to know since I don't normally ask for the availability of rounds I am unable to use.
 
Handgun ammo is available back in my area again...including the elusive .380. Prices are still a bit high, but I don't see them ever returning to "normal."

High-powered rifle ammo seems to be the rare sighting now. I never thought it would be hard to find a box of .270 Winchester anywhere...
 
I just got back from WalMart, and bought the last 2 100ct. boxes of 9mm. They had no .380, .45, and 2 boxes left of HP in .40. I buy a box or 2 every time I go grocery shopping at WalMart, but usually can't find anything. They have signs now "limiting" customers to 6 boxes per person. I honestly don't think they even get 6 boxes in of what people actually need. Lord knows they have massive stock of 12 gauge and 20 gauge shells.
 
Our local Walmart has more ammo than I have seen in 9 months.
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Same here. My local Walmart had, gasp, 5 whole boxes of handgun ammo. The most I've seen in nearly a year.

Most have instituted a limit per customer, anywhere from 6 to 8 boxes per. The big thing with many of the Walmart shortages were other gunshop or pawn shops buying their low price 100 round white box value packs (typically 9mm for $21 or so), then marking it up to as high as $65.

Most gunshops in my area are still almost completely wiped out, especially hollowpoint ammo. I am having a VERY tough time finding hollowpoint anything; I'm down to my last rounds in my carry guns. In fact, my carry ammo in my 1911 is getting crusty enough that I may have to stop carrying it altogether. Problem with the 1911 is that I prefer to test an absolute minimum of 100 rounds of my carry ammo, if not 200. But I can never find enough of any one brand to go through a full test.

I did find one gunshop out in the middle of nowhere that has a box or three in just about every caliber for pretty reasonable prices (ie, Magtech .357 Magnum 158 grain JSPs for $22 for 50 rounds).

Still a ways from being back to normal.
 
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My local gun shop, which is a decent sized shop, is rumored to be going across town and buying up all the ammo that Walmart gets in and re-selling it at a higher price.
 
Wal Mart here in San Antonio still has nothing but cobwebs in the ammo shelves
 
We don't have a shortage here in my part of Florida, ammo is available but at very high prices. I am able to support my range needs, WWB .38 +P $18.95 x 50, .380 $28.95 x 50, WWB .40 FMJ $28.95 X 100 without much hassle. Gander Mountain has all caliber ammo but the prices are about double of Wal Mart and Dick's.
 
Fairly sold out around me. Not completely sold out but certainly not something I rely on. I go through .22lr more than the rest and whenever I find a walmart with it in stock I will buy a 1100 rounds at least. I try to leave some but I will get as much as I think I will need between now and the next guess of when I will be able to find more.
 
I have now seen it off and on at Wal-fart localy, and just today stopped in and picked up:
Winchester 9mm 50rd white box for $11.47 (they were out of the 100rd bulk)
Winchester .38spcl value box (100rds not loose) for $30.97
Federal .45acp 50rd box for $15.97 (cheaper than the WWB bulk they had in stock)

I had talked to the lady behind the counter and she said they had to have sold out of the 9mm loose bulk last night, as there were several boxes of it on the shelf for at least the last three days she worked.

So it is getting better, now if I can only get the wwb bulk 9mm for $12.97 like I did a couple of years ago.......
 
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