When will the ammo shortage end

[FamousAmos]

when the next Republican president gets elected.

Didn't the shortage develop under a republican administration?

[DRT]

I think we'll know within the first hundred days.
Already covid is a non issue. Football stadiums full with no social distancing or masks. Financial institutions sending out emails the lobbies have reopened the same day as the inauguration.
We'll see how they test the waters very soon and what kind of fight the whipped party puts up.

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[sierracharlie338]

Two years is what I’m hearing from some of the ammo manufacturers but that’s their guess.


Sierracharlie out....

[mpotts]

so, never

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this ^^^^^^

[captainsling]

Or 4 years before that when the first major shortage hit in 2009?

It typically takes a year or so to settle out but Covid has been the monkey wrench in all of this. Ammo shortage started long before the election

I had no problem buying ammo anywhere before Rona hit. The ammo manufacturers have been hit with Rona in the plants as well as raw materials shortages. It doesn't help that there have been 7 million new gun owners estimated this year. If each person bought 100 rounds, that's 700 million rounds of ammo that have to be added to the market in a shortage already.

[Hunting4fun]

Wait until everyone gets that 1400 dollars and buys a new gun or 2 with it. They are going to need ammo.

[JonBoy]

Was Covid the wrench or the Floyd riots starting? I don't remember a drop-off early in the year until folks started getting scared during the riots.

I think it was the rona coupled with the riots.

When the first rounds of panic buying on TP started last March is when I saw folks starting to stock pile ammo

[JonBoy]

If you take the flippers, hoarders and panickers out of the equation, there’s ammo on the shelf next week.

Exactly

[Hills of Texas]

I saw this coming and started casting my own projectiles. It’s not terribly expensive to start and if you reload it’s kinda fun to produce your own rounds. Not precision ammo but with some studying and trial you can get decent results.

[okrattler]

When people realize they're just as dumb for hoarding ammo as they were for buying all the toilet paper up.

[SJP51]

I'm thinking about buying one of those 30 caliber BB guns. Seriously.

[duckmanep]

When people realize they're just as dumb for hoarding ammo as they were for buying all the toilet paper up.

dumb for hoarding ammo? ammo can always be used as a form of currency. would have been pretty smart to hoard about 100k of rounds 2 years ago and sell it now.

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[sotol]

Some things don't add up. They ammo makers say they are producing more than ever; but the usual stores are not getting but a fraction of what they used to get.
I also would like to see the big stores limit it to 1 box per customer.
As a last resort quit making so many different calibers and concentrate on 3.

22lr.
30-30
300 win mag
If they would do this I would stop biatching.

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[Smart]

Some things don't add up. They ammo makers say they are producing more than ever; but the usual stores are not getting but a fraction of what they used to get.
I also would like to see the big stores limit it to 1 box per customer.
As a last resort quit making so many different calibers and concentrate on 3.

22lr.
30-30
300 win mag
If they would do this I would stop biatching.

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It adds up perfectly... Big stores are selling out every shipment. Not adding 5 boxes here and 10 boxes there to an existing inventory. They are ordering the max they can and hope some of it is filled. The ammo mfgers are trying to fill max orders every day. Not some small 10-15 piece order from Mom and Pop's gun store or a normal order from the big box store during non-panic days. New shooters seems to be a big culprit....Ive seen quotes of 4-5 million of them...buying ammo...that's a lot of demand. My wife is one of them We have been shooting a lot lately trying to get her ready for her CHL. With that I have been shooting more than normal as well.. So there's two folks affected by one new shooter so you can probably add another 2 million to that 4-5 number for folks affected by new shooters. Throw in the scalpers and panic folks and its a recipe for what you see production and inventory wise.... Hopefully it tapers off soon like TP..

[AntlerCollector]

if you take all the tbh’ers out of the equation, there’s ammo on the shelf next week.

fify.