LA Times Article on Ammunition (Merged threads)

[freakshow10mm]

Gouging is inflating the price above market value when there are no other competitors in the market. What is occurring is supply and demand economics.

 

[Fumbler]

This sign does not compute.

 

[21bubba]

Looks like a table at a range to me.

 

[searcher451]

This one already is under discussion here:

http://www.thehighroad.org/showthread.php?t=472172

 

[ny32182]

An amazingly unbiased article for an LA paper....

 

[Ragnar Danneskjold]

Remember guys, Supply and Demand is when you've got something to sell, and you want the top price you can get for it. Gouging is when you want to buy something, but the price is above what you're willing to pay.

[/sarcasm]

I love it when some of the people who complain the most about "gouging" when it comes to ammo and guns they want to buy, are the same people who plot to buy AR-15 parts just to have them on hand to sell for an enormous profit if they get banned and grandfathered.

 

[ThrottleJockey72]

Well, it's gonna get worse after the first of the year when the retail numbers come out for holiday shopping, and even worse yet after next years elections. Get it while it's hot, prices are only going to go up and availability will only go down. hmmm, supply and demand you say?

 

[Rem700]

To bad they dont know the difference between bullets and cartridges.

 

[Fumbler]

Looks like a table at a range to me.

Yes, but "we reserve the right to limit ammo sale none to go" makes no sense at all.

 

[21bubba]

How about if you read it as "we reserve the right to limit ammo sales"- "none to go". As in you can't take any home?

 

[stchman]

Hmmm, people trying to find bullets? I have bullets, primers, casings, and powder.

I think this ammo scare is more than it is made out to be. I can fund 9mm, 44 Mag, .22LR and other calibers without much problem.

 

[CountGlockula]

Eleven months late. Ammo and gun sales were off the shelves back in November '08.

 

[doc2rn]

Not much of a shortage from what I have seen.

 

[mercedesrules]

"Remember guys, Supply and Demand is when you've got something to sell, and you want the top price you can get for it. Gouging is when you want to buy something, but the price is above what you're willing to pay.

[/sarcasm]

I love it when some of the people who complain the most about "gouging" when it comes to ammo and guns they want to buy, are the same people who plot to buy AR-15 parts just to have them on hand to sell for an enormous profit if they get banned and grandfathered."

Yes. "Gouging" is a bogus term. It is the high price that stimulates increased supply.

 

[PandaBearBG]

Well there's your problem! You live in California, they always get EVERYTHING wrong!

 

[ThomasT]

How about if you read it as "we reserve the right to limit ammo sales"- "none to go". As in you can't take any home?

Your right 21bubba. You have to shoot it all up before you leave the show.

 

[mdugan]

Gouging is inflating the price above market value when there are no other competitors in the market. What is occurring is supply and demand economics.

You're right Freak. I was really only joking (#23) to stir the pot a little.