Is Ammo Craze Getting Better?

[shillow]

The reason I asked is because I walked into Academy last night to kill some time and not expecting to see any ammo on the service counter where they now keep it. They actually had several boxes of different calibers of ammo. They had about 8 boxes of 40 cal, 380, 45 cal, 223 and a few others. After talking with the guy at the gun sales counter he said he thinks things will let up in the next month or so. I'm a little more sceptical about things getting back to normal myself. I use to get to Academy at 7:50 and join the line to see what came in that morning a few times per week, but I haven't done that in a few weeks. I really can't wait until we get back to normal or close to it.

Has anyone seen any improvement in your usual ammo hunting grounds to make you think supplies are trickling back in?

[atxscubasteve]

Yes, I was at my Academy here in Austin the other day. They moved all the "hard to get ammo" to the customer service section. I was expecting not to see anything on the shelves, but they had a pretty good supply of 223, 9mm, and 45's. Unfortunately they regulate how much you can buy. The guy handing out the ammo reminded me of a dictator not wanting to give bread to the starving folks. I think it was the most important job he had ever had in his entire life. Only one box of ammo per caliber, up to 3 boxes total. Fortunately I was there with my grandpa and we only needed 2 boxes of 9mm.

The funny thing was, as soon as we started buying, people were like "oh hey maybe I should buy some ammo too..." and it started flying off left and right. The ammo and mag prices on Gunbot.net are coming down in price as well. I think there is a ton of oversupply in peoples possessions and a lot of angry wives looking at last months statement. I would concur that by next month, baring any crazy legislation or lunatic murdering more people, that it will be back to normal.

[RAM4171]

It's definitely not here in Mesquite/Garland area. I refuse to go stand in line, since I've got a company to run on a day to day basis. I was able to pick up 1050 rds of .22lr last week. Ive got ammo for the calibers that I shoot, I'm just not shooting much until I have chance to stock up. My wife may believe that guns and diamonds somehow go together, she got that from my mother of course , luckily she believes that you can never have enough ammo.

[rev210]

It does not seem like it is getting better here in San Antonio, at the least the two Walmarts and Academy I check, I haven't seen any ammo in weeks. I try to monitor the online sites and usually the reasonably priced ammo is gone within minutes of being in stock.

[alvins]

maybe getting a little better but i yet to see any remington coreloked 308.all the 308 i have seen is like 40 dollars a box.which i refuse to buy.i am not spending any money on panick prices.if other people want to waste money then have at it.

[Zen]

Not up in McKinney/ Frisco/ Plano area. Nope...

[Wodathunkit]

Last Friday night I purchased a box of 9mm at 8:45 pm at the academy in Webster, they had about six boxes of Monarch and 10 boxes of Blazer. I was surprised to see it there, especially near closing time. It has gone up a dollar in price to $12.95. I had my wife get a box also.

[Redneck_Buddha]

Could have bought as much .45 as I wanted to last Saturday in NW Austin.

[xb12s]

Last Friday night I purchased a box of 9mm at 8:45 pm at the academy in Webster, they had about six boxes of Monarch and 10 boxes of Blazer. I was surprised to see it there, especially near closing time. It has gone up a dollar in price to $12.95. I had my wife get a box also.

I saw that too. I was there earlier in the day (maybe 3:30 pm) and they had about 40 boxes of the Monarch 9mm at that time, and 30 boxes of the Blazer Brass 9mm. They also had about 15 boxes of Monarch 45 ACP, and some Speer Lawman (maybe 10 boxes). I was shocked to see that much of it past 8:30 am.

I wondered if they just got a late truck that day, or if things have slowed down. I've waited in line there in the morning a couple of times.

[SlowJohnny]

Not up in McKinney/ Frisco/ Plano area. Nope...

Agreed.

CTD in McK had 9mm for $1 a round the other day. A box of 50 was $50, a box of 350 was $350. This ammo was selling for $0.40 a round a month ago. NO it is not getting better.

[Greybeard]

CTD is commonly the first to go up with pricing and the last to come down. Gobs of people here and elsewhere got so put off by their gouging 4 years ago - and again recently - they (myself included) refuse to ever give them another nickel. They just seem to take advantage of people who don't know any better - or are in enough of a bind, they spend stooopid $ with them.

[Chris]

Not here. My wife went to academy this morning and waited in line with around 75-100 other people to buy a box per caliber. She thinks black Friday is fun, so this is her newly proclaimed hobby.

[shillow]

Not here. My wife went to academy this morning and waited in line with around 75-100 other people to buy a box per caliber. She thinks black Friday is fun, so this is her newly proclaimed hobby.

Now that's thinking.

I think stores like CTD should be boycotted for gouging their customers. I use to buy a lot from them several year back when I use to shoot more often. I am just getting back I to it and was shocked that ammo was in a shortage. I was also disappointed that CTD is practicing price gouging. Ill be shopping elsewhere from now on...too many online choices to have to put up with that.

[Dreamliner]

Only when and if prices go back to pre-SH prices.

[The Annoyed Man]

I refuse to go stand in line, since I've got a company to run on a day to day basis. ..... Ive got ammo for the calibers that I shoot, I'm just not shooting much until I have chance to stock up.

This.

The last time we went through this, it took about a year for the ammo situation to calm down and for the panic buying of both ammo and black guns to ease up. And that time we weren't facing Diane Feinstein's AWB bill and all the other gun legislation attempts. We have most likely turned back a major push to disarm us...at least temporarily...but it is going to take a long time for all of this to change. The price of an AR will likely never return to pre-Sandy Hook levels, just as AR prices never returned to pre-1993 AWB levels after that law sunsetted. Ammo will likely get more plentiful over the next 8 months or so, and it will eventually get cheaper, but it will likely never get as cheap as it used to be. Also, unless democrats are retarded, if there is one lesson that they will have learned from all of this is that if you make ammo scarce, you severely restrict the expression of the 2nd Amendment. Going forward, look for most future democrats elected/appointed to national office, particularly to POTUS, to try and limit the public's access to ammunition. I believe that they are wrong and immoral, but I don't believe they are stupid, and I find it very hard to believe that they would be unaware inside the administration of these ammo shortages and the effect they are having on the nation's gun owners. Nor do I have trouble believing that someone hasn't been tasked with figuring out how they can exploit the situation......never letting a crisis go to waste, so to speak.

People forget, but there have been other brief retail shortages of military calibers in the last 10 years—primarily 5.56 and 9mm, and to a lesser extent .308 and .45 ACP—related to the ammo manufacturing industry's capacities being temporarily dedicated to military resupply for ammo stores expended in the WOT. It is entirely possible that the administration could order some big ammo buys under that same guise, at precisely the time when panic retail buying has drained the reserves in the retail supply chain, thereby ensuring that ammunition remains largely unavailable to the retail buyer for even 2 or 3 years. Who here doesn't think that the Obama administration isn't capable of that kind of subterfuge?