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Gun Store Owners: Ammo Shipments Are Not Even Making It To Shelves
Customers “are buying up everything”
Steve Watson
Prisonplanet.com
March 28, 2013
Gun store owners say they have never experienced anything like the demand for firearms and ammunition that they are currently witnessing in the wake of a renewed government push for gun control.
Owners at Blue Steel Guns & Ammunition in Raytown, Miami told The Miami Herald that customers were so hungry for ammo that they couldn’t even stack shelves with fresh supplies before they had all been bought.
“They never even made it to the shelves,” said owner Steve Brackeen. “We just had enough time to slap a price on them and sell. And we ran out before everybody in line got some.”
Brackeen noted that customers knew shipments arrived on Fridays and that a crowd had formed in anticipation of the delivery truck arriving.
The shop sold 60 boxes of .22-caliber and 9 mm ammunition, totaling thousands of rounds, in just 18 minutes. Brackeen added that while customers are waiting for the ammo to arrive, “they are buying up everything” in his shop.
Other gun store owners quoted in the report noted that individual customers are calling up asking to buy all the ammunition that the stores can procure.
“We haven’t got any .22 calibers — we’re out,” one store owner told reporters. “I don’t know who has any. Anytime anyone gets some, customers buy ’em up within a day.” The store owner also noted that a brick of 500 .22s have increased in price from $18 to $70 in just three months.
The report states that one ammunition manufacturer representative with a plant in Ozark, Mo. noted that he has never seen such a spike in demand in his lifetime.
“…it has never happened to this degree,” said David Shaw of Fiocchi. “Industry-wide, we are not able to keep up.”
Shaw added that despite adding extra shifts to increase production, the plant is “sold out for 2013,” and cannot catch up with demand.
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remember our government doesn’t like competition. this will be punished……
“The store owner also noted that a brick of 500 .22s have increased in price from $18 to $70 in just three months.”
Stupid gun nuts…… you are putting so much money in the pockets of ammo companies, who are totally sold to the government….. This whole gun control thing is a sham by the ammunition makers lobby to get the prices to go up.
Enjoy your bullets when you have no money left to buy food. I guess you’ll then have to eat some lead.
Those bullets work nicely on Elk. Take your prejudice elsewhere
No, we will sell our $70 .22′s to your neighbor for $118 so he can protect his family and have a front row seat to watch you and your family assaulted and raped.
Fear certainly works in Amerika
Don’t confuse the will to fight, the resolve to resist communism and the duty to protect one’s self, family and country with FEAR. Fear means run, hide, and beg for mercy when you are caught. Resolve means LOCK and LOAD and the will to fight means ROCK and ROLL. You non-Americans have never learned the truth of freedom and that it is better to die on your feet than live on your knees. There is no hope for the conquered socialized, communized, defeated and emasculated masses who never had a Constitution or a 2nd Amendment. But BY GOD I refuse to go down without the fiercest fight I have ever put up for anything, and there have been a few pretty fierce fights. There is no fear in that equation. When it comes to my family, I sincerely pity the fool who will threaten them, whether that fool wears a uniform or not. I will have NO MERCY and leave NO SURVIVORS. If I die, I die. God the Father knows my heart.
Bulls-eye GrandDaddy!
The Government has been buying up all the ammo to keep Americans from getting enough to defend themselves. In case of a revolution, civil war or economic collapse you would need around 2500 bullets so I hear. They are making the purchases through several different agencies to hide total purchases. Specific bullets are easier to obtain. Looks like the blank is hitting the fan people! Also, don’t keep all your eggs in one basket.