Topic: Anyone else having trouble getting ammunition?

[jphillips3333]

It's a scary time ... I don't own a gun but would probably be stocking up based on the current administration and their liberal leanings.  Makes me think I need to get to a gun show and pick something up ...

[milly]

Went out to buy some shotgun shells afterwork today. The farm store I buy ammo at had plenty of shotgun shells in stock. Looks like they are getting other rifle and handgun rounds in too. The "good" stuff like .45 Mag, .40 S&W, 7.62, and 5.56(?) are still empty or real thin. The .22LR stuff is full again but they down sized the bulk boxes from 500/550 rounds down to 333 rounds. Same price too, so go figure. I did pick up another 40 rounds of .22 WMR (count down from 50 round per). For the record, the shotgun shells I got were 2.75" "game" shot and they were $6.68 per box of 25 shells.

All most forgot, the reason I am buying shotgun shells now is because I bought a used Benelli Nova 12 ga. pump over the weekend. It's a limited edition Ducks Unlimited Banquet gun (auction/raffle gun if you've never been). Black synthetic stock with 28" barrel. Overall a real nice pump gun with very few rounds thru it that is currently valued at about twice what I paid for it.

[Rick]

There was an errant squirrel who started chewing on our CCA-treated deck recently, so he ate a .22 CB round today.  I thought I put him down because he dropped and quit moving, but apparently I missed by a little and when I went out to check he started kicking around.  Being the compassionate person I am, I decided to put him out of his misery quickly.  I hadn't purged my carry mag in a while so I emptied it on him.  Lights out, Mr. Squirrel!

[milly]

At least he is dead now. 

[Rebel 5150]

Rick....Kills. Squirrels. Dead.

[pat]

poor little fella

[KellzBird]

To the original question, yes.

But this has been growing for quite a few years though, at first they (people that sell ammo) said they cut back on civilian production due to the war effort, then it was that China was buying up all the lead and brass (copper), now they are saying it is due to panic buying. It is bad enough that you have to be on a waiting list to get powder for reloading around here, primers and lead are through the roof as well.

[77TA-Man]

Things are pretty scarce here, too and what isn't scarce is getting expensive. .223 is up there as is 7.62 NATO, and you can almost foget finding 7.62X39 locally. I need to pick up some dies and powder for a few calibers. Like someone else said, even primers are tough to get right now. I have about 1000 pieces each of Lg Rifle and Lg Pistol primers.

[UnderDog403]

lets all buy crossbows.
Seriously though. Before too long, ammo will be taxed out of reach.

[77TA-Man]

Well, there are always front-stuffers.

[Rick]

Before too long, ammo will be taxed out of reach.

There's no tax on ammunition specifically, and my guess is that any such proposals will continue to die as they have in the past.  At this point I think even the Brady Campaign has given up on that idea.

[kentuckyyeti]

There's no tax on ammunition specifically

Pittman-Robertson Act:

Sponsored by Senator Key Pittman of Nevada and Congressman A. Willis Robertson of Virginia and signed into law by President Franklin D. Roosevelt on Sept. 2, 1937, the Pittman-Robertson Act created a 10% excise tax on sporting arms and ammunition. A few years later the tax became 11%.

We pay for conservation- not the bunny-huggers.

[Rick]

Oh yeah -- the PR act.  Forgot about that.  I was referring to various efforts that have been proposed to make ammunition "pay" for its cost to society.  Some of these goofballs really go nuts in computing the "cost of society" of each cartridge...

[kentuckyyeti]

I figured as much.  I just wanted to reference the P-R Act and how conservation money is paid for by sportsmen, not the protesters who don't pay for the very things they claim to love and protect.

[kentuckyyeti]

I got a heavy package delivered this morning before work.  It has some nice stuff- 40S&W Win Supreme SXT, 38 Spl Federal HydraShocks, 45 ACP, Win WB 9mm 100-rd value packs, Rem-UMC 38 +P's.  It took a long time to get this shipment, as in months.