PHOENIX, AZ –-(Ammoland.com)- I haven’t seen anything that suggests foul play of any kind, to me, it’s strictly supply and demand, and it shows you what panic in a market looks like.
Rationing and price spikes are the result of demand far outstripping supply.
Sure, government ammo purchases should give you pause, it’s the reason we’re all armed.
A trusted source provided this:
“Take for example .22LR ammunition. The industry as a whole (all manufacturers combined) is setup to produce 4,200,000,000 (4.2 Billions) .22 LR annually. That is running all the machines, full capacity all the time, all manufacturers together.
There is NOTHING they can do to produce more.
That corresponds to 230,137 cartridge per State per day, which is 460 bricks of 500 .22lr per day per State. That means that if less than 50 people per day in each State are buying 10 bricks of .22, it is enough to dry up the entire supply as it is being manufactured.”
News from ammo makers seems OK too, but it’s right to be wary. Trust but verify. How do you do that?
If you don’t have ammo, you’re stuck in a high market. If you’re like many Americans, you’ll comfortably ride this out until the market corrects.
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Just buy as much as you can whenever you can. I buy ammo calibers that I don’t even have firearms for. Look at is as gold right now !
let me chime in from a different perspective if i may. for many years ammo, 22lr, showed up in stores the same every week or two no matter where i lived in this country. they say it’s panic buying, etc. but this is an impossibility because you cannot panic buy until it’s on the shelf, right? gun stores tell me they are not getting any 22lr ammo because people are panic buying, funny how people believe hype in this country. remember the gas shortage of 74 and 79, more BS. friends they just do this to get prices higher and… Read more »
If you look into background check figures, you’ll see that during the Bush years gun sales were around 5m a year. Then Obama took office in 08 having a antigun history, with a democrat majority in both sides of congress. Sales rose to 14m per year his entire first term. Outside of political fear reasons, the sunset of awb in 04 gave rise to the recreational and competition tactical shooting community. Then there were the 2012 doomsday preppers, and the people who prepped against a self induced collapse from doomsday hysteria. All of these newbies were directed towards an ar15… Read more »
Has anyone considered an alternative like a .22 cal. pellet rifle? A very good one can be bought for less than 150.00 and the pellets are less than 10.00 per 500 (at Wal Mart). I bought a 100.00 pellet rifle at Wal Mart 2 years ago and shoot it at least 4 days a week. Tough trigger pull but that helps practicing trigger control. My gun is very accurate even with a less than target trigger. I would be comfortable squirrel hunting with it and it has plenty enough power to kill at 75 yards or more.
If thats the case then how come when you go into stores they say they haven’t gotten any for a long long time?
“Temporarily unavailable from manufacturer.”
That is what it says under about 90% of the .22LR entries on the Graf and Sons wen site.
Graf is a MAJOR distributor.
So, the stuff we have been being fed about hoarding and excessive demand.
Absolute nonsense.
If Graf can’t get it from the manufacturer it’s either going somewhere else, or it’s not being made.
Would really like to know what’s actually going on, as opposed to the fiction of the past two years and more.