Don't get many "Why isn't there any ammo/primers/powder/whatever?" questions anymore. Have heard that "The government is buying everything up." and "It's all a few hoarders." I don't argue with them.
On the latter, a guy who worked at Academy Sports said that it's bad enough having people waiting outside starting two hours before the door opens on shipping days, they'd caught a few people buying their limit of ammo, going out of sight and changing shirts and putting on a mask and hat and trying to buy more. Doesn't surprise me.
Not as many people have been shooting, because they don't have much ammo and aren't sure they can replace what they use.
With the Remington factory in Arkansas reopened, hopefully that's starting to take a bit of the pressure off.
We got a little powder in, which caused an increase in "Do you have X? Then when will you get some "When will you have it?" exchanges, which happens a lot with ammo(Guy, if I knew when we'd get it I'd sell tickets. ) Which occasionally includes someone on the phone who wants you to list every kind we have a bottle- or box- of just in case there's something they might be interested in.
"You have any ammo?"
"What are you looking for?"
"What have you got?"
(inside)"No, I am not going to go over every effing box of whatever is in the place, please tell me what you're trying to feed and I'll tell you if we have any." Seems some want to buy ANYTHING, doesn't matter if they have something to use it in. Maybe hoping they can trade it to someone.
There are many who didn't know that .357 Magnum and .357 Sig are NOT interchangeable. Or that 7.62x39 and 7.62 Nato cannot be used in the same gun(that one's far more rare). I've said it before: newbys get a lot of patience because they're learning, people who've "Been shooting for years, I know all this stuff" not quite so much.
Speaking of, from Miguel on an 'expert':
This is a woman that is both a US Army veteran and an engineer from the University of Southern California.
She thinks the AR is too “complex & difficult to operate & clean” and that you don’t have to aim with a shotgun full of buckshot.
Could she prove any more succinctly that just because someone was in the Army, doesn’t mean they know fuck-al about guns?
Be advised this was written under the influence of very tired, last night was a bitch
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she must have been an officer.
I have enough ammo to keep me going until things settle down to a dull roar. So I have not bought any during this recent(?) panic. However, I have significantly slowed down my shooting, as many others have also done. And I have kept an eye on the situation online.
It seems that the shortage is slowly, I mean slowly, letting up a bit. Now, if one really is in a jam, and needs to get some ammo, be it 9mm, .45 auto, or even .38 special or .357 magnum, you can get it, if you don't mind buying it in bulk amounts. And the price has come down a tiny bit. From the high that I saw of over .80 cents a round for fmj,115 grain 9mm, I have seen it as low as .58 cents a round in lots of 1,000 rounds.
While this is far from the .18 cents that I paid for most of that which is sitting on my shelves, it seems to be a good sign that the panic buying might be at the least slowing. We all know, at least those of us who have seen this panic buying before should know, that the reason for the majority of the scarcity of ammo has nothing to do with a real shortage and more to do with a made up demand, exacerbated by fear.
For those of us old enough to remember, the same thing happened, when on the extremely popular Tonight Show, starring Johnny Carson, during Johnny's monologue, he told a joke about a toilet paper shortage. There really was no TP shortage, it was just a joke for laughs, but it quickly became what is called a self fulfilling prophesy, and toilet paper soon started to disappear from store shelves, which just reinforced in people's minds that the TP shortage was real, and the panic buying started in earnest. I can't remember how long it was, but it was a significant time before things settled down and they got the shelves restocked and the supply over shadowed the artificial demand.
BS meter pegged on this one.
If, on the slim chance, that Ms. Rambo fired all the weapons she listed,
it was more along the lines of a familiarization course.
"Look through here. Press this button."
There, our unit got its cross training badge and its diversity certificate for the year.
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