Where has all the ammo gone?

Don’t worry there’s a boom & bust cycle in every industry and it’s only magnified when manipulated by internal and external forces. Goofs hoarding ammo will eventually hit the point where they 1.) Have more ammo than they could ever send down range 2.) Economic changes alters purchase patterns, 3.) Costs of acquiring and storage become a deterrent. Manufacturers can try to delay and shorten the bust cycle, but minimum production requirements generally limits that success. The combination of hoarders no longer purchasing ammo, opportunity sellers being stuck with large amounts of inventory with high price volatility, people brought into the industry via political* or event fear tactics exiting the market (wrecking market projections) and industry production requirements will cause the ammunition market as a whole to be flooded with inventory and send prices dropping like a ton of bricks. A clear and concise way of expressing what I typed is there will be both an increase in supply and decrease in demand within the industry.

*People are generally unaware politically for a number of reasons and that tends to magnify the affects of government action or inaction in the short-term. Because of that, political operators (issue organizations, businesses, key politicians, lobbyists etc.) disseminate talking points, silly quotes by people with high favorable ratings (preferably those that aren’t living) and entertainment (if you think liberal Hollywood is bad, step back and observe conservative machinations in music) so the politically unaware will choose their side of an issue without applying critical thinking. Prime example is one of your respondents using a Ronald Regan quote when anyone politically aware would know Reagan as Governor of California and as POTUS did things (some that actually violated laws) that still negatively impact us 25 years after he left office.

Supply has not yet caught up with demand, which spiked right after Sandy Hook, and is just now finally going back down. I have seen 9mm on the shelves here in certain places, but only a few boxes, as people are still buying it like mad.

But unlike a month ago, it is there, if only for a very short time.

Into the hands of fear buyers and people who think they can make a profit off of fear buyers.

“When dictators come to power, the first thing they do is take away the people’s weapons. …I do not believe that [our nation’s leaders] have any desire to impose a dictatorship upon us. But this does not mean that such will always be the case. A nation rent internally, as ours has been in recent years, is always ripe for a ‘man on a white horse.’ A deterrent to that man, or to any man seeking unlawful power, is the knowledge that those who oppose him are not helpless.”
– Ronald Reagan

I just checked; all of mine is still in the closet and gun cabinet drawer. Of course, I have been stocking up since 1980 and really haven’t looked for any lately. What good does it do to have guns if you don’t have ammo? I started buying a box per week for at least two of my guns. Through the years I have accumulated enough to not have to worry about times such as these unless they extend for many years.

Shoot straight and stay safe.

I can buy .22LR easily. Ditto 9x19mm, .223, .308, or any other calibre I might need (except 7.5mm Swiss, which I’ve always had to order). Thing is, I’m not surrounded by paranoiacs, psychotics, and panicky twits.

Where have you been since December?

I was at Cabelas on a lucky day and snatched up a bunch of .40S&W. They even had 3-4 cases of 9mm come in but I don’t shoot 9mm; it was literally being taken off the shelves as the clerks were putting it on.

If you have an Academy near you, go to the service desk. They aren’t stocking popular calibers in the ammo aisle these days. I hope this helps. Good luck in your search.

people have been hording it you are going to have to find out when they are getting more in and go early right when they open.