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Maybe you can ask DHS if they have any extra? I heard they just picked up 1.6 BILLION rounds of JHP for "training"...

longhorn_92 wrote:Maybe you can ask DHS if they have any extra? I heard they just picked up 1.6 BILLION rounds of JHP for "training"...

I'll change my response a little.....I made it by McBrides in Austin today and saw more handgun and rifle ammo there than I've seen anywhere for a long time. Looked like they had a good supply of militia rifles too --though I didn't check the prices.

Walmart Empty - at 3 stores North Dallas.
Academy Store in Arlington - found 6 people staring at a 50 foot empty shelf trying to grow bullets - nothing but scraps.
SGammo online nothing but trash bullets
Trying to buy a Dillon reloader - but why try? Looking for small pistol primers for 1 month online - nothing. Actually have a sw bot that searches for availability of primers about 12 stores. Nothing. So yea, i'd say the guy has a point that started this thread.
BTW ammo is available online - if you want to pay 2 or 3x what it was prior to Newtown - no thanks.


I wonder how long this will last? I am starting to think 1 year or more.

Sounds like mx217 was caught with his head in the sand.

gclooney wrote:Sounds like mx217 was caught with his head in the sand.

Yep, and it's everyone else's fault.

Had a range owner tell me today they are only selling to people taking classes and shooting on the range. Even so, their stock is being depleted faster than they can replace it and when it's gone. It's gone. Unless things change. They had stocked up before this all started. Since the company I was in knows more than I will ever learn, I asked if there had ever in history been the massive ammo purchases by the government for domestic use that we see now. The quick response was "no". I wonder if the gov is going to start buying ammo for the white house janitors too. After all they have ordered it for every other department.
I would give anything to see Obama's serious face on the evening news warning the fed will have to stop buying ammo due to Sequestration.

Mx217 wrote: Those people are all idiots.


If you're reading this, and you are hoarding big amounts of ammo. I hate you, I really do. You are so stupid and pathetic. Want to know how I know that? Because you are making yourself pay for extremely inflated prices that YOU caused. You and your idiotic thoughts of "I have to buy every last box" IS THE PROBLEM and you are no better than anybody who voted for Obama(Anti-Americans). Yes you read that right, you are just the same as a liberal in my eyes. You could be turning into one because you've inflated the market so bad you might be wishing for a socialistic economy. That is how much I despise you. It is because of you I can no longer casually enjoy my hobby of going to the range(you know, the place you go to and actually USE your ammo). Your hoarding mentality could have made you forget that place even existed. So, you have two choices. 1. Buy only what you need to practice with. Or 2. Don't change a thing, have fun getting up at 5:00 AM to stand in line every morning, and stay an imbecile. Choose number 1.


Rant over.

Sticks and stones my momma used to tell me.....

While you wait for ammo to replenish, I'll sell you my sticks and stones 'cause I have lots of ammo from my hording.

Now, stop your and name calling.

jmra wrote:

gclooney wrote:Sounds like mx217 was caught with his head in the sand.

Yep, and it's everyone else's fault.

EDITED
ahhh, nevermind.

When I'm in my local Wally, if they have ammo I use, I buy some whether I need it or not - same as always done. Which is why I have plenty of ammo for my 9mm's and .40's. I can make one or two range trips a month without worry of running out of ammo - and I'm not panicked nor a hoarder, just prudent. Picked up couple of boxes of .40 UMC Mega 250rd on 3/11 for $87 + Tax. They had plenty of .40 and .45 - no 9mm.

03Lightningrocks wrote:Is it really that bad? Wow! I am fortunate enough to have plenty of ammo so I have not tried finding any in the past year. Seriously? There are reports of 100 people waiting in line?? That is CRAZY!!

I wonder how much of this shortage is brought on by the federal government buying up supplies?

Zero percentage.

WinoVeritas wrote:

03Lightningrocks wrote:Is it really that bad? Wow! I am fortunate enough to have plenty of ammo so I have not tried finding any in the past year. Seriously? There are reports of 100 people waiting in line?? That is CRAZY!!

I wonder how much of this shortage is brought on by the federal government buying up supplies?

Zero percentage.

Well thanks for clearing that up. You will have to forgive me but seeing as how you are new around here, can I inquire as to who you got your insight from?

According to this thread they are responsible for 1.6 billion rounds with just one department. Lord knows how many rounds are being sucked up by other departments.


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Then we have the military contracts having to be fullfilled. Every police department in the country is finding themselves high and dry and are responding by ordering more ammo. I am not so sure we can say the government has zero participation.

Backfire wrote: BTW ammo is available online - if you want to pay 2 or 3x what it was prior to Newtown - no thanks.


I wonder how long this will last? I am starting to think 1 year or more.

It's possible that I'm being foolishly (and uncharacteristically) optimistic here, but I do think that we're starting to turn a corner. A month or two ago, you could not find ammo in stock, period, regardless of price. I watched 5.56 priced at 200-300% pre-Newtown levels disappear from online retailers within minutes on multiple occasions. Now, the ammo at that price point seems to be sitting on shelves longer and longer - I'm not sure that we've reached a steady state yet, but it's taking days instead of seconds for merchants to find a consumer desperate (or dumb) enough to pay those prices. I'm also starting to see some more reasonable prices - granted, they disappear nigh-instantaneously now, but that's a step in the right direction.

Some calibers, like .45 ACP, seem to already be approaching a pre-Newtown equilibrium in terms of price, if not availability. I've yet to see 9 or 5.56 at reasonable prices online, but we may be looking at a permanent sea change there, as much as it pains me to say it.

I've got enough stocked up to last for a while, I just hope it's enough for prices to regain some measure of sanity before I run low...

Steve133 wrote:

Backfire wrote: BTW ammo is available online - if you want to pay 2 or 3x what it was prior to Newtown - no thanks.


I wonder how long this will last? I am starting to think 1 year or more.

It's possible that I'm being foolishly (and uncharacteristically) optimistic here, but I do think that we're starting to turn a corner. A month or two ago, you could not find ammo in stock, period, regardless of price. I watched 5.56 priced at 200-300% pre-Newtown levels disappear from online retailers within minutes on multiple occasions. Now, the ammo at that price point seems to be sitting on shelves longer and longer - I'm not sure that we've reached a steady state yet, but it's taking days instead of seconds for merchants to find a consumer desperate (or dumb) enough to pay those prices. I'm also starting to see some more reasonable prices - granted, they disappear nigh-instantaneously now, but that's a step in the right direction.

Some calibers, like .45 ACP, seem to already be approaching a pre-Newtown equilibrium in terms of price, if not availability. I've yet to see 9 or 5.56 at reasonable prices online, but we may be looking at a permanent sea change there, as much as it pains me to say it.

I've got enough stocked up to last for a while, I just hope it's enough for prices to regain some measure of sanity before I run low...

You may be right. If supplies keep building up, the prices will come back down. How far back down is the question.

Will 9mm once again be below 10 bucks a fifty?
Will fourty get back to 12?
Will .45 get back below 15?

I hope so! How about .223 and 5.65x39?

It just seems like the prices always go up faster than they come back down.

03Lightningrocks wrote:

WinoVeritas wrote:

03Lightningrocks wrote:Is it really that bad? Wow! I am fortunate enough to have plenty of ammo so I have not tried finding any in the past year. Seriously? There are reports of 100 people waiting in line?? That is CRAZY!!

I wonder how much of this shortage is brought on by the federal government buying up supplies?

Zero percentage.

Well thanks for clearing that up.

tomtexan wrote:I would just like to find some 22LR.

Alamo Ammo.com has 22LR for sale at $$$$...Yippee!!! /sarcasm

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I saw some of this stuff last week, they had some sort of "brick" of 545 rounds??? For, get this, $295.00, Remington was the manufacturer, these guys are only a distributor...

I think someone where we were discussing this came up with about .47 cents a pop...

Enjoy.../sarcasm