There is no Ammo Shortage

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My secret is...visit Walmart after 11:30pm...if they have a shipment in of ammo, you're most likely to get first dibs. That worked for me...the stock 'boy' told me that they probably had another 20 boxes of .223 on the truck still waiting to be unloaded (I got the 7 boxes already on the shelf.)
 
obx-shooter:
Your view that the price bubble can't stay inflated very long is realistic. They always develop a leak which can't be patched, and some price bubbles pop.
Gunbroker already has a Selling Fever for the SKS rifle. Four pages a week ago have doubled to eight pages. For example, 9 bids on a nice Yugo, but up to only $255, with many other types only $50 above what they listed for in March 2008, long before that election.

A week ago an article in "The Wall Street Journal" stated that the various anti-gunners can not even agree on what strategy to follow.
Mid-term etc elections are often on politicians' minds. Saving my ammo cash for a spring clearance sale. Either prices stay up, or could soon decline at a steady rate.
 
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I stopped by a large gun store yesterday. The Semi auto gun rack(30' long) is now used to display cleaning kits and such as they don't have rifles long enough to display them.

.223 and 5.56 is $1 a round and they had about 4 hundred rounds. I asked they if they were getting more in and they said they 3 pallets they ordered a while back are being held up and they "suspect" that the sell is waiting for prices to rise some more.
 
Perhaps the Government should consider selling off surplus 5.56 and and magazines at today's inflated prices to pay off the National Debt.

Alternatively, the Government should dip into its strategic 5.56 reserves to stabilize prices of an important commodity.
 
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Gunbroker of course. Granted its not selling fod the same price it was in September but its there if you are willing to pay the asking price.
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End users/consumers reselling what they have already purchased isn't really part of the supply. That is simply a parallel transaction involving already sold and out-of-the-supply-chain product.
 
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End users/consumers reselling what they have already purchased isn't really part of the supply. That is simply a parallel transaction involving already sold and out-of-the-supply-chain product.
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Funny as you see gun stores selling on Gunbroker and frankly does it really matter who has the ammo for sale. The ammo is there if you are willing to pay the asking price. One can either pay up or go without just as I did yesterday when I paid $15.75 for a 20 round Pmag another item in short supply.
 
Its about at the bubble and people will stop paying those prices. I for one am NOT buying ammo at the moment.

Clinton
 
Clinton said:
Its about at the bubble and people will stop paying those prices. I for one am NOT buying ammo at the moment.

Clinton
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Neither will I until prices come back down. Wait, I can't find any anyways.:) Oh, Gunbroker -- not! I won't pay .37 rd when the normal price is .20 rd.

Oh well, I have enough carry ammo. I just won't go to the range for a couple of weeks.
 
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Just checked all the internet vendors I normally buy from and also called local stores.

No .32 ACP or .380 anywhere. No .22 Long Rifle bulk packs...:-(

A lot of the vendors are not taking back orders and a couple have stopped internet sales. Local shops can't say when they will be receiving any more.
 
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Funny as you see gun stores selling on Gunbroker and frankly does it really matter who has the ammo for sale. The ammo is there if you are willing to pay the asking price. One can either pay up or go without just as I did yesterday when I paid $15.75 for a 20 round Pmag another item in short supply.
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I would hardly consider $15.75 for a PMAG "paying up". Most people shopping for magazines right now dream of finding them currently available for that price, but fail to do so
 
There is a shortage. There were only about 150 boxes of Israeli .556 at Cabelas last Saturday am for $9.99. Week before that they had M885 for $12.99 plus some tracer and varmint. There is ammo, just not a lot.
 
Was just at WM, 15 min ago, and as expected all the .223 was gone. The 9mm was gone too, but there were quite a few boxes of other caibers available...40, .380, .45, 25 auto, 22lr, 38sp. and many rifle rounds as well. This is in Fishers Indiana, a suburb of Indianapolis. Fella behind the counter said they got a big shipment just 2 days ago and half has walked out the door since then.
 
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I currently have about 1500 rounds of 5.56. I bought it last year for about $0.30/rd (1000rd case of xm193 and a 420rd can of xm855). I went to Cabelas on Saturday and made myself sick to pay $0.50/rd for 10 boxes of American Eagle .223 but I had to after a 45min hike up there. They had just put out about 200 boxes and it was nearly gone in the 30 min I was there.
 
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