Walmart still sells a lot of brass cased, boxer primed ammo. If you 'feed' your guns like you would a queen then you'll be buying the more expensive stuff. Those of us who would like to shoot more with our dollars and who don't buy into the steel cased hysteria appreciate the option that Walmart gives us.
I can't agree with this logic. While I agree that WalMart CAN offer the cheaper steel cased ammo for the sake of competition.... it is after all an open market... please tell me what happens to the price of ammo when the Russians and Chinese have finally put all the Remingtons and Winchesters out of business ????
Just like foreign cars have decimated the American car industry, foreign ammo will do the same at some time in the future. When I was a kid, there were something like 7 independent American car companies. Now thanks to that kind of short-sighted thinking there are 2. Germany on the other hand, a country smaller than my state of Georgia, has at least 4 viable, independent car makers. Why? Because Germans would rather walk to work than buy a Toyota. They "get it".
The true savings in ammo,
if you are truly concerned with PRICE, is found by reloading your own. There are tens of reloading outfits for sale starting as low as $50 and they all pay for themselves within 1 year. If you shoot enough, even a $1500 Dillon 1050 is completely paid for in a single year.
But the whole American ammo scenario, in fact the whole 2A freedom, depends upon having boxer-primed brass, which this steel-cased ammo completely short circuits. So YOU save 6 cents now, to make EVERYONE else (the reloader
and the non-reloader) pay through the nose later.
Ahem! Don't look now, but I think you just sold your grandchildren's 2A rights for 6 cents.
Merry Christmas.