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03Lightningrocks wrote:

Liberty wrote:

Commander wrote:I just bought some Monarch Steel 9mm at Academy in Austin (183 @i-35) at $8.99 for 50; I was kind of reluctant as the last time I tried some, I had several FTEs, but it does beat nothing....they also had a few boxes of CCI in 40 and 45.....Back home last week, the guy behind the counter at Wally World ammo counter told me a similar story as related above - "the warehouse is out of ammo" and he didn't know when any would be coming in....At Academy in Mesquite last week, they were out of 9mm (except the NATO), they did have some CCI in 45 which I bought. The guy there said he gets 4 trucks a week and sometimes they have ammo on them and sometimes they don't....I have yet to see any explanation of what is going on with the ammo supply other than people are "just buying it up"...

I went to the range the other day and rationed the amount of ammo that I took with me. I'm trying to replace what I shot before I go to the range again.

While the "People are just buying it up" makes plenty of sense to me, What is disturbing is that there is no news on any efforts to relieve the shortage with increased supplies. One would have thought that there would be more ammo imported or manufactured to make up for the shortages. The news media isn't talking much.

I thought about this also and came to the conclusion that the ammo manufacturers may have believed the increase in demand would be temporary, so they did very little to add to production capacities.

TheArmedFarmer wrote:I've been checking our Wal-Mart in Jacksonville lately. Today, at around 3:00pm they had a few boxes of various calibers. No 9mm, 40 or 45, though. I was particularly surprised to see a couple different brands of .223 ammo (I recall seeing Remington). They also had a good number of the 550 round bricks of .22LR in stock for around $15.

secure wrote:Academy in Plano off tollway and parker has .40, .45, .223 right now. They just stocked the shelves and one of my ammo boxes.

ninemm wrote:Just got back from the Walmart in Dallas at I-30 and Cockrell Hill. They had about 12000 rounds of White Box 9mm 115 gr. FMJ at $19.97/100. I picked up 2000 rounds. The clerk told me they got it in late yesterday but didn't put it out as they can't sell it after 10:00 p.m. anyway.

The 10000 rounds I left them with probably won't last the day. Other than about 6 boxes of 38 Special 125 gr. JHP, that appears to be all that had been added to their ammo supply.