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Based on the current prices, if available, I have a large investment sitting in my safe! 2013 taught me a great lesson.
Good luck!!!!!! Not looking like anytime soonIf we ever have another Republican president, I'm stocking up in year 2 of his term. This is nuts, and predictable.
One of the videos from the gun industry I watched said there were 7M new gun owners from Jan to November of 2020. I would suspect December added a few more. That of course caused a substantial increase in ammo demand. The ammo shortage has now trickled down to more people getting into reloading with a corresponding shortage of supplies. I don't see it changing any time in the immediate future.We as the gun owning community are our own worst enemy though. We created a big portion of this shortage by panic buying. If everyone would have just remained calm way back last year when the rona started then we wouldn't be in nearly as bad of a mess as we are right now. I see guys on forums that say they HAVE to have the thousands of rounds of ammo that they panic bought because "I HAVE to shoot every weekend and it takes that much." Well no, chief, you don't. You can sit down and moderate yourself just like everybody else should and we won't have a problem.
Oh you've got that right. 7 million new shooters would have caused a shortage in normal times, but not on the epic scale we're seeing now if everyone would have just practiced some self control. But the reloading community is just as bad on the panic buying and hoarding as the normal gun community. Just go look at MidwayUSA and try bullets. 1253 varieties out of stock with no backorder. And that's bullets. Try finding powder, or that unicorn dust known as primers. I regularly see guys in the groups that find 10 or 12 jugs of powder on the shelf somewhere and buy every drop of it. Same thing with primers. Most of the time I scratch my head and wonder how they even afford to buy that much. If I spend $150 on components that's a big hit to my play money budget. But a lot of people dropping hundreds and thousands on ammo and components that in reality, they don't need and probably won't need in their lifetime. I believe in leaving something for the next guy, but a big portion of the gun community doesn'tOne of the videos from the gun industry I watched said there were 7M new gun owners from Jan to November of 2020. I would suspect December added a few more. That of course caused a substantial increase in ammo demand. The ammo shortage has now trickled down to more people getting into reloading with a corresponding shortage of supplies. I don't see it changing any time in the immediate future.
Certainly, all the new gun buyers had a significant effect, but BY FAR the most critically important factor is this right here. Just 8 years ago all this occurred on a similar scale, and there was no influx of first time buyers. I learned many lessons during that time, but the one that shines most brightly for me is just how panicky and reactionary "gun people" are. And I have to add "unspeakably selfish" as well. The very same people who cast stones at those who act like animals on Black Friday and similar times treated their gun-shooting brethren like mortal enemies. I saw rage, dishonesty, deceit, resentment...you name it. I saw very little cooperation and generosity.We as the gun owning community are our own worst enemy though. We created a big portion of this shortage by panic buying. If everyone would have just remained calm way back last year when the rona started then we wouldn't be in nearly as bad of a mess as we are right now. I see guys on forums that say they HAVE to have the thousands of rounds of ammo that they panic bought because "I HAVE to shoot every weekend and it takes that much." Well no, chief, you don't. You can sit down and moderate yourself just like everybody else should and we won't have a problem.
No legal issues at all.Ammo
Given the depth of this shortage, do you think there might be any interest in trading ammo via this site?...Are you aware of any legal or site rule prohibitions at play here? Your thoughts?