A friend of mine said that he was at WalMart the other day at about 5 in the afternoon and saw some 9mm ammo on the shelf. He theorizes that the Second Panic is winding down, since at the beginning of the summer, he was at the same store at 7:30 in the morning and they had sold out, and the clerk merely mocked him for being such a slowpoke.
So-are things loosening up, ammo-wise now?
If it was just about over, I expect that some new information about Obama’s agreement at the G20 with Putin to make all Americans get gay married to Mexican Muslim terrorist abortion doctors will be leaked shortly.
I just realized there was a sporting goods/gun store close by to where I moved to. I need some ammo. I’ll probably stop by there this weekend and look for some .45 ammo. I’ll let you know.
I imagine the ammunition companies need to build up their inventories a bit before they tell their customers it’s time to buy it all up in another panic.
I was at Gander Mountain last week, a store that previously had continously been out of stock of most popular ammo calibers since Sandy Hook, and I was pleasantly surprised to see that they had full shelves of most everything, including .223, .38, 9mm, .22, etc.
It seems odd at first but it may be the best solution from Wal-Mart’s perspective. The other choices are to either jack up prices and have people complain that their ammo costs more than other places, or to not jack up prices and have people complain that it’s never in stock.
The Mister has been trying to buy .22 ammo for a month. Yesterday, the gun store owner just snort-laughed when asked… But this is the time of year when normal-ish people are buying for hunting season (deer and dove, I think. I’m not a hunter. My outdoorsy impulses are satisfied with having a cocktail on the patio.) But adding normal demand to Doomsday Prepper stockpiling, and there’s no .22 to be had (and not much 9mm.)
Say, is Black Talon worth anything? I picked up a few boxes when there was some controversy about it (‘cop killer’ bullets, or something) back in the '90s. Never used it.