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Ok, I knew ammo prices were going nuts. About 3-4 weeks ago I bought some .45acp Blazer for like $24 a box. A bit high, sure, but not ridiculously so. Just for kicks, I look today... same stuff. $47. Holy crap. (almost as crazy as $79 for a box of .380 FMJ). But seriously, are people ACTUALLY paying $95 for a 500 rnd box of freakin .22 Thunderbolt ammo? I can't believe even a new gunowner is THAT desperate for .22 ammo.

If the buyer accepts and pays the price the seller is asking, how is that gouging?

Well, they ain't gouging it out of me.

COVID aside, still an election year. Gotta stock up. Some people never learn.

Easy solution: lead, black powder, a mould and a flintlock.

I have a fair supply of .22lr ammo. I was just amazed at the prices they were asking now. And wondering if anyone was really paying that much.

15 years of making flintlock guns, and I don't have a (completed) rifle of my own. I have two smoothbore guns, but I'm actually not much of a smoothbore shooter. I have some rifles planned out that I would like to make for myself, but situations make it look unlikely that I will be able to do so.

For me it’s not stocking up. I’ve got a fair amount on hand.

I just don’t shoot a lot because i can’t replace what i do shoot.

No mags dumps right now. 😂🤪

#1 no such thing as gouging a non essential item.
#2 American capitalism is built on supply and demand.
#3 if your buying plywood when the hurricane is half hour away, you deserve to get fleeced.

EVERY election cycle....EVERY ONE, for decades has been like this.
Add in a pandemic, civil unrest, metals shortage....and y'all didn't see this coming a light year away?

Grandaddy was right " stupid needs to hurt".

Riddle me this: How could anyone with half a brain not have seen this coming? Inquiring minds have to know....

I took the defacto wife out to dinner the other night and decided to stop in the local Fin, Feather, Fur. Surprisingly, they had their usual full compliment of powder, primers and bullets were a little thin, but not too bad, all the same prices.

Walked over to the ammunition shelf for s**ts and giggles, plenty of CCI Blazer 9mm, 40, and 45... $29.99 a box... of fifty: one box limit. People were paying it too. Unbelievable.

Gouging is taking advantage of someone when you can. There's a bunch of people that will suck a willie for a dollar and times like these prove who they are.

Yes, people are paying that much. If they weren't, you wouldn't see the prices continually rising. People are dumb.

I've watched the American consummer perfect stupidity with the ammo purchasing. They do the same thing with buying stocks. They wait for the stocks to hit the top and buy and when the stocks hit the bottom they sell or don't buy.

A gun is just a over priced club without any bullets. The rioting and looting opened a lot of eyes and pretty much forced folks to get off the pot.

After the last ammo scare, I stocked up on everything I'd need. I'm good for the foreseeable future.

If you want a real laugh check out the prices on armslist. Those people are funny.

Bingo! Exactly right. I have a couple thousand rounds of range 9mm (and more than enough carry 9mm), all bought when it was cheap, but that doesn't mean I go to the range and shoot three or four hundred rounds of it a week when I can't replace it. More like 100 rounds of it a month, just enough to stay familiar.

For recreational shooting, I'll stick with mainly black powder (components for which are still reasonable) and rimfire, which I have huge stockpiles of from when the last shortage ended and it got cheap again.

I've not seen anything like it. If this is supposed to have happened over and over again in the past, perhaps I just wasn't looking at the time. Except for the great .22 shortage. For FOUR YEARS, I did not see any .22LR ammo available anywhere, at any price. It wasn't high, it just wasn't there at all. After it became available again, I started stocking up as much as I could, when I could.

I'm just amazed that people are ACTUALLY paying, with shipping, over a hundred bucks for a box of the cheap Thunderbolts that I paid maybe twenty bucks for a month ago. Perhaps I should sell what I have....

"I've not seen anything like it"

You're kidding, right? The current availability/prices of guns/ammo is not near as messed up as it's been at least 3 times in the last 12 - 15 years!!