Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire OK what do you think the real reason for ammo shortage?

Ok lets here everyone's thought on the ammo shortage. Was at a couple sporting good stores and see the gun racks are full again. But the ammo is in short supply and no large rifle primers to be found.

I can not believe that the company's are not working overtime to meet the demands of the people.

There has to be more to the story lets here everyone's thoughts.

Hoarders and folks reselling..

Panic after the recent elections. Old enough here to have seen a couple of similar events before, and wise enough for this one to personally be a non issue.

I read gov contracts and hoarders. Something is going on the Hoarders have to get full at some point.
The shelfs are empty around San Diego maybe the rest of the country is doing better. I sure hope so.

Pawn shops around here have many less guns than I've ever seen.

demand...

Only a couple places around here to buy, Walmart included. I've asked the employees and they all say its the same people there early and buy most everything. Mainly 22, im starting to see some .223 and more popular pistol rounds..

Panic due to Obama's reelection combined with the Sandy Hook massacre and the government's subsequent attempt to further regulate guns. Combine that with people trying to make a buck by reselling and possible larger-than-usual government contracts and there it is. The ammo companies seem to be doing the best they can. The only thing that is difficult to obtain around here is .22.

Supply / Demand.

yep, but a combo of reasons it would seem

a. hoarders

b. new buyers, hoarders tellin them "better buy all the ammo you can"

c. gov't purchases spiking, regardless of what they tell us, .gov gets bigger every year and spends more loot up to and including arming gov't employees they didn't use to and all the new ones they arm

d. no way to know for sure, but ammo has gone up, and like it or not, ammo companies are big biz, just like oil companies are, they've passed on the price of metal increases, powder etc. it didn't abate our appetite one lil bit. We've seen shortages, and higher prices because of the limited supply. It would surprise me none that the ammo companies will raise prices some more and perhaps keep the flow of ammo at a slightly less volume than in past years. If they can keep demand high and thus price points because of perceived shortages, sell everything they're making, then why wouldn't they?

Stop by a gun show or flea market, or go show up at Gander Mountain and wait on the "lead truck" to arrive and you'll quickly see the problem. Hoarders and price gougers.

This is an easy question to answer. The reason for the ammo shortage is simple, a superabundance of ill-prepared dumphucks, and a greedy bunch of people more than willing to prey upon them.

I don't blame the getrichquick gang, though, I blame the morons who didn't see it coming, and keep enough stuff on hand to stave off the gougers. It's their own damned fault.

Yes, the problem with most of these morons, is they can't plan past the day they are in.

all I can say for sure about this issue, is that there is no ammo shortage at Casa Mannlicher. Never has been.
I bought into "buy it cheap, stack it deep", many years ago.

I've actually got a bit more .22 ammo than when this started.

The shortage was created in response to a severe lack of topics for Internet forum threads. It has remedied this problem handily.

I'm finding pretty much in fair supply with the exception of 22lr and to a lesser extent 22 mag

Why the ammo shortage? - Guns & Ammo magazine, September 2013

Guns have gone mainstream in America. That is why.

Manufactures are running their ammo factories 24/7. Winchester is building a new ammo plant and Remington is expanding theirs. It's hunting season so manufacturers are currently setup to make hunting ammo.

Prices are high because the value of a dollar sucks. Thank 0bama for that.

If you are in CA, check out Big5 sporting goods. They have ammo in stock, but it is more expensive than WalMart by up to 50%. That includes 22 rimfire, 223, 5.56 and handgun calibers.

folks that just now woke up.....

These are the same explanations I've heard for the last almost 10 months. I find it difficult (though not impossible) to believe that there are that many "hoarders" that short on ammo, and that many get-rich-quick entrepeneurs finding a market for this long... especially with the ammo manufacturers saying that they're cranking out more ammo than ever.

Personally, I'm O.K. with about everything but the .22's- although I wish 9 mm was more readily available. Just before the election I decided to gravitate more heavily towards the 9 mm as my primary home defense/concealed carry/ field guns. I've still got others, and can still pick up my "one box limit" from time to time, (visiting probably an average of 2 gunshops per week and finding available ammo about once every other week) but I've got to be conservative in using it up.

Over the last couple of years, I'd been trying to narrow down my arsenal to fewer guns that could get whatever job done that needed doing. So I had narrowed my rimfire rifles down to a not-very-acurate CZ-452 (I know, no one has heard of such a thing!) and had just prior to that, gotten rid of my 10/22. Decided a good 10/22 was needed, as well as more accuracy from my bolt rifle.

So, just prior to the election, I sold the CZ 452, bought a 455, another bull barrel 10/22, and another scope. I bought a sample each of nearly everything and ran them through both guns at the range. In hunting ammo, the top two performers in both were the WW Powerpoint and CCI Mini-mag.

The new CZ was great, accuracy-wise, but I decided the 10/22 needed some help. After a lot of reading on Rimfire Central, decided to upgrade to a Tony Kidd barrel, having already fixed the trigger. At this point I'm pumped and went back to buy a sample of everything... nothing but bare shelves! And it's still that way. I have managed to buy maybe 300 Powerpoints since then, but nothing else usable is ever in stock.. anywhere. And then there is a "100 round limit" on purchases!

This is getting really old and frustrating.