I'm gonna disagree with your assessment friend.
What is different this time around is that the politicians are openly anti Second Amendment and are not even trying to hide it. This is new. Just let a couple of EOs affecting anything with firearms hit and see what happens. With the current civil unrest and political theater the fuse is extremely short on panic buying.
This. And when you are as rich and connected as these clowns are, who cares if prices go up? Its gonna cost him another $20,000 to build the house due to lumber prices? Who cares? He'll just pay it or only put the smaller ("normal") quad burner IR natural gas grill into the outdoor entertainment stonework instead of two. Or when the grocery bill goes *UP* by $500/mo he just wont give the hired help a raise.
I'd say you got extremely lucky / don't have many people in your area. Not sure where you're located, but since you said academy it does't sound like you are anywhere near Indianapolis. Finding 9mm at that price is considered an amazing deal right now. If you can find it at all, it's 50 cents per round or higher here.
Absolutely!
I was jobless over the winter... during that time, Academy would "occasionally", maybe once a week, get a couple dozen boxes of (brass) 9 mm, and sell it for $11.99 - $12.49 per box of 50 (24-25 cpr) IF you were there an hour before the doors opened. Meanwhile, online/GB ammo was going for 80-100 cpr... and selling out.
Did you not see the point that most low price ammo is from delivery from old contracts that will soon expire. Then the big retailers will be at near gun store prices. The prices at Academy or RK are not indicative of the prices falling to $.35...I was jobless over the winter... during that time, Academy would "occasionally", maybe once a week, get a couple dozen boxes of (brass) 9 mm, and sell it for $11.99 - $12.49 per box of 50 (24-25 cpr) IF you were there an hour before the doors opened. Meanwhile, online/GB ammo was going for 80-100 cpr... and selling out.
Now, you don't have to wait in line, but you do need to be there in the morning, to get 34-35 cpr brass 9 mm, and can find 60 cpr online, often one of my preferred brands/wieights. Anything over 62-63 cpr on GB gets zero bids (CCI Blazer brass).
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It is getting better and the prices are coming down from the panic highs.
Yup. They're not making that mistake again. Better to keep production flat and allow prices to skyrocket to, eventually, control demand. They're not going to bulk up ahead of elections again, not when they can just sell the same round at a 400% margin.
The retail price didn't "fall to" 35 cpr. It increased from 25 cpr to 35 cpr, a 40% increase, and while not sitting on the shelves all day long, is way more available than it was 3-6 months ago at the retail price.
I spoke with my local ffl yesterday (in-home ffl) and he hasn't been able to get hardly any ammo since the shortage. He just got some recently and his cost from the wholesaler was $16/box (50) Fiocchi 9mm so 32 cents per round. Meanwhile I watch the prices go up daily on sites like Natchez
