The panic buyers are at it again

While i was up at cabelas today i figgerd i'd grab a 300ct of .223 since they just went on sale on wed. Boy did i figger wrong! As i walked through the ammo section i didn't see a single ammo can. I asked an employee if they had any left and he laughed. His reply was "sorry buddy they came running in here first thing wed and bought every can we had. Within 5hrs we sold 90k rounds." Yep that's right, 90k rounds in 5hrs! He said guys were arguing and worried that the government was gonna ban all .223

 

Maybe they will lay off my .22LR now.

 

Yeah it went away quick at most online places. I try to buy 500 and 1k round boxes at a time.

 

Wishful thinking! Those shelves were wiped clean as well . I haven't seen .22lr on a shelf in months.

 

Man that stinks. How was the trip? You make it to Shady Maple?

 

I still grabbed a few things I needed so it was worth the drive. No shady maple this time but we did eat at red robin "yummmmm"

 

I haven't seen a box of 22LR on a shelf in a store in darn near two years and I look at every store I am in.

 

I seen some last weekend. $60 for 500 rounds of American Eagle high velocity.

 

Same here. I haven't seen bricks of .22 since Sandy Hook.

I refuse to pay that much for .22. It went from $11.00 a brick to $18.00 after the 2008 election; when you could find it. By the end of '09 it was trickling back onto the shelves at that $18.00 mark. It was plentiful for the next 3 years. I decided to buy some extra before the next "crisis".

There were a couple vendors at our local flea market last year that were selling little, homemade baggies of 50 for $8.00; $80.00 a brick.

 

CCI claims they are working 24/7 and are producing 4 million rounds a day. I believed them when I first heard this a year or so ago.....not now

 

Yeah my dad is constantly complaining he cannot find any of this ammo.

 

I'd love to know how many rounds of ammo are stored in homes in america
It's got to be billions
I don't know anyone that has a gun that hasn't "stocked up"
And i'm not sure it should be called panic buying. How many states just implemented new restrictions in the last 2 years.

 

I think they are, the problem is that 4 million a day isn't that much. Assume (conservatively) that an eighth of Americans (320 million /8 =40 million) have a .22. If they're producing 4 million a day, that's around 1.5 billion a year. 1.5 billion/40 million is roughly 40 rounds per year per .22lr owner.

 

Funny. I just read the same article

 

Idiots will be idiots. I've seen a few links to various articles suggesting (all wrong obviously) that all 223 ammo, 12 guage, and the obvious green tip will be banned.

All the $300/case brass stuff is gone. Retailers are up to the usual gouging if they have stock. I saw a 420ct box of green tip at ctd for get this....

$800!

 

I thinks it's a shame, I refuse to pay those prices! I will just shoot my bow more. Hoarding is one thing, but then trying to sell at gouging prices is stupid. I bought a ruger 22 a month ago off a guy, and he had 4 large safes full of ammo! I was like wow this guy is serious! He was selling guns to buy more ammo, said he can always buy another gun.

 

I've seen a lot of it on the shelves in various places around the country. I buy when I can get it home easily.

 

.22lr is the most popular gun chambering. Since it's the cheapest to buy, people shoot a ton of it. Supposedly its gotten easier to buy, but demand is higher than it used to be.

I know the government isn't buying it, it's ammo hoarders / supply issues.

 

I know a guy sitting on close to 30,000 rounds.........what do you do with that much .22??