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Ammo scalpers, the lowest scum in the hobby/industry.

.......Insane. Waste of time and money.

I just did a NICS check yesterday for a 24hr member and it was instantly answered and I got a response right then... just like it used to be and should be. Except the only explanation is there is no inventory for people to buy right now, so checks have been speeding up. I have not got any attempt at them even running the preliminary check while I waited, in months!

The last thing about Walmart I heard was that they were removing all guns from the shelves a couple of months back, due to the "social unrest" stuff. A couple of days later, they were supposedly putting them all back. Guess it was bad publicity.

It not for the ammo scalpers armslist would be no more.

Greatest handle since "sockpuppet".

Plenty of ammo available online....at 3X what you paid for it a year ago.

My local Wally still has a pile o' Remington .300 Win mag ammo, but nuthin' else. I could understand some weird, oddball caliber, but .300 Win mag? What's wid dat?

Round here, only way you are taking a shotgun or rifle home is if you are in the market for something north of 2K. Everything else is gone.

Handguns are non-existent.

Seems like most popular rifle ammo is gone, but lots of 7x57 and wsm around.

As if on queue, the local place that consistently selling primers notified me, today, that they’re now rationing 200 per week. I (used to) go through over 1k in SR primers a month. I gotta stop or I’ll rip through my reserve by this time next year.

When this happened last time, I focused on casting/loading slugs and 00B. Guess I’m back to that.

Stopped in Cabas today and found 115gr 9mm for $139/500. Not the worst price

My wife and I drove south of the border today to walk around the Chapungu Sculpture Park and look for Christmas gifts. I was surprised at the variety and amount of powder at Scheel's at good prices, but they only had a couple thousand small pistol primers with a limit of 200 per day, and the rest of the primer case (locked up behind glass like jewelry), was empty. They did have a few cases of 20 round boxes of loaded .223, some Federal Syntech 9mm and some HST .45 ACP, limit 2 boxes per caliber per day. It looked like a bunch of sharks circling the prey. They also had some bullets for reloading that exceeded the amount available where I live. Sportsman's had an OK supply of powder, but no primers, hardly any bullets, and no loaded ammo in popular calibers. The Liberty range hardly had anything in terms of ammo, and I did not see a reloading section, but I may have missed it. (Nice place, as was Scheel's.). In the end, I didn't buy anything because I only was looking for more primers. But, I suspect that a person who could forage every day for supplies could get by. Anyway, it was a pretty day for a drive and a walk.

i am amazed at the prices of some guns on gunbroker are going for. and not AR style either. i just saw a grice special 35 rem 7600 carbine go for 3k.

There will be scalpers as long as people keep paying scalper prices. Stop buying their chit and they will soon be out of business.

Went to the local gun store today looking to talk to the gunsmith (turned out he wasn't working today), and in the parking lot on the way back to my car an elderly man, who came out of the store at the same time as me, was proudly holding a box of 9mm in his hands. He seemed overjoyed to have been able to buy a box of it. He announce to me, "It's like gold," as he held it up in the air to show me what he had just acquired in the store.

Based on the experience of past shortages, I had come to be in the habit of keeping at least a couple thousand rounds of range 9mm on hand at any given time, and that's about what I had when the insanity started. I still have nearly a thousand rounds of it left, because I cut way back on shooting 9mm for the purpose of making it last. My 9mm shooting is way down now that I'm on my last thousand rounds of range ammo. I guess I should have made it my policy to keep ten thousand rounds of it on hand. Oh well. Live and learn.

Localest Walmart out of all ammo other than shotgun shells. Informed by a friend of mine.

He need to visit the Duck.

Duck wants all my contact info for his pards so they can email congress.