Ammunition Sales Soar in Response to Coronavirus Panic

BlackGun said:
As usual people are being fed fear thru media at an alarming rate and they are buying prepping items. Its just like a prediction of snow with milk, bread, and liquor. Anything consumable made abroad is at risk of having factories shutdown and cargo limited.

I have already been told repair parts out of China will be delayed and pricing will increase. Supply and demand.
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This concerns me, as I just started enjoying liquor.
 
The appliance market in Chicago (where I still work remotely) is slower than it should be. We're already seeing some issues on the purchasing/supply side. It's not having the impact it could be having because we're already quite slow, but it will be interesting to see what happens as the Air Conditioner season cranks up. Those little sleeve and window units are almost exclusively built overseas.
 
BlackGun said:
As usual people are being fed fear thru media at an alarming rate and they are buying prepping items. Its just like a prediction of snow with milk, bread, and liquor. Anything consumable made abroad is at risk of having factories shutdown and cargo limited.

I have already been told repair parts out of China will be delayed and pricing will increase. Supply and demand.
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I agree except the supply is there, but demand is great.
 
I saw the post about ZOMBIES and loaded up 1K 9mm jusincas.
 
I have no doubt the democrats would release a virus to sabotage Trump.
 
I wonder if the uptick might have anything to do with Wal Mart no longer selling pistol blammo. people have to go elsewhere for it now.

Hey man , you got any (rubs fingers together) .38's?
 
J R Green said:
I wonder if the uptick might have anything to do with Wal Mart no longer selling pistol blammo. people have to go elsewhere for it now.
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One day, I was on my hands and knees drooling over the guns in the cases at Mid South in Wagram. I overheard one guy tell his colleague, “Wal Mart did us a huge favor”. I popped up and asked what he meant.

The answer was, “People have to buy their ammo somewhere else”.
 
BatteryOaksBilly said:
Just checked on Evan Marshall's site Stopping Power. Currently there a 22 state agencies using the .40. 12 using 9mm. The rest spread all over .357 Sig .45 acp. Obviously the 40's death is greatly exaggerated.
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Never had a problem with .40, actually like it. For some reason I shoot snappy calibers like it and 357 well, better than 45. Good carbine round too, hits like 10mm with the extra barrel.
 
But that’s only 3.5 as much as what I paid for my last batch from PSA. :eek:
 
wsfiredude said:
Them MFers just won't learn their lesson, will they?

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Well said. I thought the very same thing when I saw it.
I remember they cancelled all those magazine orders after Sandy Hook, suddenly in stock the next day for $59-99 each.
MF'ers are shameless.

I never click on their site when searching, but did today just to see and WHAAAPPP!!!!
 
Please remember that many of the little guy LGS’s are at the mercy of their distributors up the supply chain on price and quantity. I’ll point out Clint at FG&G back in the last scare. Clint would have stuff trickle in from secondary sources at higher costs but did the best he could to us and also worked to get some to more people than allow profiteers to buy it all and flip it at twice the price.

CTD is a POS but remember sometimes the LGS might get screwed on their cost for their distributors so they have to raise their prices also.
 
Pineapple said:
Well said. I thought the very same thing when I saw it.
I remember they cancelled all those magazine orders after Sandy Hook, suddenly in stock the next day for $59-99 each.
MF'ers are shameless.

I never click on their site when searching, but did today just to see and WHAAAPPP!!!!
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This right here. Look, charge whatever you want. It's your property. I'll go without, black market or competitor. A coworker placed and order for some ammo 4 days before Sandy bul... Hook. 3 days after, he got the email that the items were out of stock. When we looked, the exact same ammo was in stock at a much, much higher price and a DIFFERENT stock number. Screw em.
 
NCFubar said:
Please remember that many of the little guy LGS’s are at the mercy of their distributors up the supply chain on price and quantity. I’ll point out Clint at FG&G back in the last scare. Clint would have stuff trickle in from secondary sources at higher costs but did the best he could to us and also worked to get some to more people than allow profiteers to buy it all and flip it at twice the price.

CTD is a POS but remember sometimes the LGS might get screwed on their cost for their distributors so they have to raise their prices also.
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But many of the lgs will raise the prices on the ammo they already have in stock. Which they bought at the lower price. That's gouging imho


But their product their price. I can only think of 2x I bought ammo from a lgs. Not again when its available elsewhere for a much lower price.
 
LeeMajors said:
But many of the lgs will raise the prices on the ammo they already have in stock. Which they bought at the lower price. That's gouging imho
But their product their price. I can only think of 2x I bought ammo from a lgs. Not again when its available elsewhere for a much lower price.
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Not necessarily 'gouging'. A retailer has to develop enough profit so they can buy the next shipment, which will cost more up the supply chain. Gasoline works the same way. The gas station owner has to pay for the next load for the tanks somehow. It's just that gasoline is so much more volatile as a commodity, prices change faster and are easily visible to the motoring public.

The two dickheads in Tennessee were clearly gouging on the hand sanitizer. A LGS moderately upping the price on ammo in preparation for their next order makes sense, but certainly not on the scale of CTD. They are clearly gouging. No amount of justification for that level of price increase is present in the supply chain process, at least at this time.
 
LTC Don said:
Not necessarily 'gouging'. A retailer has to develop enough profit so they can buy the next shipment, which will cost more up the supply chain. Gasoline works the same way. The gas station owner has to pay for the next load for the tanks somehow. It's just that gasoline is so much more volatile as a commodity, prices change faster and are easily visible to the motoring public.

The two dickheads in Tennessee were clearly gouging on the hand sanitizer. A LGS moderately upping the price on ammo in preparation for their next order makes sense, but certainly not on the scale of CTD. They are clearly gouging. No amount of justification for that level of price increase is present in the supply chain process, at least at this time.
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Gasoline doesn't work the same way . And there are laws to the effect. I spent 28 years in the gasoline industry.

If. They were reported and IF they were caught There are HUGE fines

They are allowed a certain percentage markup on existing stock of product. but more than that percentage is in fact gouging

I'm not for .Gov control of anything but there are a FEW laws to help us in a situation
 
As a small dealer, I can tell you that times of high demand and lower supply can kill us. Whatever we sell, we may not be able to restock. We have to get more for X product than normal to help pay the bills while we have nothing to sell.

The larger dealers are higher up the food chain when it comes to getting stuff from wholesalers and manufacturers. When things get allocated, your local guy may be waiting 6 months or more before he gets a thing. By the time he is restocked, the panic is usually over.
 
cubrock said:
As a small dealer, I can tell you that times of high demand and lower supply can kill us. Whatever we sell, we may not be able to restock. We have to get more for X product than normal to help pay the bills while we have nothing to sell.

The larger dealers are higher up the food chain when it comes to getting stuff from wholesalers and manufacturers. When things get allocated, your local guy may be waiting 6 months or more before he gets a thing. By the time he is restocked, the panic is usually over.
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Very true. But there is a line at what is clearly taking advantage of people. One thing I will note is you will most likely see less sport shooting as ammo is scarce. There will definitely be a rationing of the amount of rounds fired which will affect a company like Defender Ammo as spent brass becomes scarce.
 
Insane I paid $400 for 2000 rounds of 9mm last night at my local gun shop. Shelves were empty when I walked in but luckily I’m good friends with the owner took me straight to the back and said how many cases.:D
 
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