Run on ammunition:

[PT92]

Run on ammunition:

When will this school shooting thing blow over. There has been several shootings over the years and not one of them has had this type of effect on gun and ammunition sales...

I feel your pain (we all do). Yet IMO you severely underestimate the real cause of the panic (not justifying just explaining as I see it). Absolutely, the shooting(s) of late with Sandy being the most notable due to the innocence of youth involved can be partly attributed to the "run." But I think it goes even further than that in that Americans no longer trust their Government and foresee a very bleak future, economically, socially (chaos) and politically with an ever increasing inability to distinguish "Police" from "Military" (again IMO Boston exemplified this as I could not distinguish police from military even spec ops). Moreover, DHS is beginning to look like 1939 all over again.

We could write pages on end concerning this but suffice it to say that the "Leave it to Beaver" I Love Lucy" "Brady Bunch" America we used to know has "left the building" meaning we have perhaps lost our identity as Washington looks to "redefine" our Nation in ways that surely cause our beloved Founding Fathers to roll over in their graves...

 

[orionengnr]

As gun owners become increasingly frustrated with the lack or ammo and reloading components, they begin to sell their guns which they can't get ammo for. This drives down the price of the guns and encourages more owners to try to sell their (useless without ammo) guns while they still have some value. The lower prices do not increase demand because of the unavailability of ammo, and as shooters move to other calibers, the ammo shortage spreads to those calibers as well because manufacturers are still responding to the DHS contracts which are issued as needed to keep the shortage in place.

When the price on guns drops low enough, initiate "buy-back" programs that pay at or just above the depressed market value which encourages owners to turn in these "useless" guns.

Destroy the guns.

Repeat as necessary until the number of gun owners is reduced to a non-impactful number, depriving the NRA of its base, and driving many gun manufacturers out of business due to lack of demand. (Govt then subsidizes those that supply only govt. needs.)

With political influence waning, along with the public's interest in guns that they can't use, mount a campaign to repeal the 2nd Amendment, then register and confiscate all firearms still in private hands.

Destroy the guns.

How long will it take?

I think it that we may find out in the next 2-5 years...essentially in the mid-term elections (which I do not put a lot of hope into) and the 2016 elections...in which the American people may truly face a one-time, winner-take-all, use it or lose it election. The future of America, if you will.

 

[joeschmoe]

This drives down the price of the guns

Well that plan is failing miserably. Used guns are selling for more than new guns were a few years ago. 19 million new gun sales in the last year alone.

 

[justice06rr]

I still bet most of ammo being sold is not being shot, just talked about and looked at. Nothing wrong with that. I have not bought ammo since this whole thing started.

Any range reports from anyone from all this ammo being shot up?

I am thinking about selling my guns and just collecting ammo.

I would bet easily that most ammo is being stored and not shot.

I sold a couple bricks of my 22lr stash to a guy who said he actually had more than what I have stockpiled. I had about 2k+ of 22lr at the time, and the buyer said he had about 7k. I doubt he even shoots it, just wants to have a stockpile for himself.

When I buy from private sellers online, they always say they have thousands of rounds of a particular caliber. So why would you sell it if you plan to shoot it? I normally do not sell any of my ammo supply because I will eventually shoot it and run out.

 

[Onward Allusion]

So why would you sell it if you plan to shoot it?

Because they know that what goes up does come back down (for the most part). Anyone coughing up $80 for a brick of Remington 22LR is a complete and utter idiot who is fueling the pain.