bigmancrisler
2A Preacher
If it was bought in December, try like $14-20.
Why December?
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If it was bought in December, try like $14-20.
Why December?
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Why December?
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Virtue signaling closeouts on certain "evil" ammo.
Referring to Walmart clearing out their ammo. Regardless of how much he bought it for, if there’s a buyer it will sell, if he’s too high the market will determine that and inventory will sit. I certainly don’t sell for what I paid.
I also want to get into reloading, any advice for a beginner?
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Hit the reloading section and read all the "sticky" threads at the top about reloading. The brass trade thread can come later, once you start getting into reloading.
Don’t think anyone should do that.
It’s not necessarily the middleman that might be an issue, but I do think price gouging is wrong. At least on necessary things (gas, food, water, etc). Ammo makers raw materials costs didn’t suddenly go through the roof so all the various down stream prices shouldn’t have.
Don’t have an issue with pricing in some supply and demand. But prices going up >3x what they were a few months ago...
But if everyone jacks their price through the entire supply chain, then it goes sky high and it isn’t just the final retailer to blame.
Not like “oh gods Ayn Rand in the house!”
But it does bother me.
Don’t think anyone should do that.
It’s not necessarily the middleman that might be an issue, but I do think price gouging is wrong. At least on necessary things (gas, food, water, etc). Ammo makers raw materials costs didn’t suddenly go through the roof so all the various down stream prices shouldn’t have.
Don’t have an issue with pricing in some supply and demand. But prices going up >3x what they were a few months ago...
But if everyone jacks their price through the entire supply chain, then it goes sky high and it isn’t just the final retailer to blame.
Not like “oh gods Ayn Rand in the house!”
But it does bother me.
I'll remember that the next time you're selling something.
I will only pay what you paid for it, maybe. The economics you speak of is Communism. So you can never make a profit on anything you own? Your house? Your 401k? Your guns?
That a ridiculous ideology not compatible with our free enterprise system, sorry. If you put a 50 ct. box of brass 9MM on GB, the market will determine its value. And right now that's about 4x what I paid for it from WM during their purge. Anybody wants some of it, theres the starting point. YOU dont get to decide my "profit".
Demand is greater than supply right now. With totally natural consequence.
Just ignore these price increases guys. It will come back down quicker if you don't contribute to the panic buying.
We were normalizing after COVID, but then the riots had to happen...
Wish I had your optimism. But with the elections coming up I don't see the prices coming back down for a long, long time.
Exactly. Those that ignored reality and followed the pied pipers of ammo deals (Ie wait it out, buy from Cabelas/Bass Pro) are now paying double if not more. I guess there’s some that believe supply and demand is a social construct and if we all just agreed to stop buying today 9mm would plummet to .12 cpr but it’s not realistic. If we lose in 2020 we are completely screwed, if we win I still see 4-6 months before production and supply/demand level out.
Ammo Jon - do you (or anyone for that matter) have any insight as to why, with WalMart's huge amount of handgun ammo sales now out of the picture, there are shortages?
Are the manufacturers producing less?
Has panic buying in gun shops and online really soaked up the enormous inventory that used to move through WalMart?
Price per round might go down in that case, but AFAIK NICS checks are not free so that cost would need to be added in as well.
If it’s a captive audience and everything had to go through an FFL I would expect prices to rise. The whole purpose (by the government) of background checks is to make it more difficult/more expensive and hopefully dissuade new gun owners. It’s a back door to gun control. “We can’t take away your guns but we can make it painful to own them.”
Another effect would be black market ammo. I'm not sure how distribution works but I do know it would be very difficult for .gov to read the serial numbers on brass and determine if it was sold thru an FFL with a NICS check.