The 22 lr ammo reselling racket

[MARX7]

I didn't read the whole thread and am not familiar with ammo too much so take this with a grain of salt.

I bought my first rifle 22LR Marlin and thought I'd be able to shoot for cheap right away.

Then I come to find out that there's a ammo shortage. So I can't find ammo at local stores for two weeks . You can buy online if you beat the others to it.

Two ways that I have gotten ammo in a span of one week. (2000 rounds)

1) searched the private ammo sales and got Federal 525 for $45 a brick. At this point in time I am overjoyed to even get my hands on some. But realized I overpaid after researching online .

2) I woke up early to be the first guy at my local Big 5 and got the only box of Win 22 1000 RDS. $68 OTD. I am happy. The early bird gets the worm .

My conclusion - yes it sucks that there are people out there who buy up all the ammo once the shipping arrives. That's why there's a limit. But when only three boxes are shipped and that same guy buys them every week . I can say that's pretty greedy.

Yeah you should take initiative and go seek your own ammo. Its out there .

But on the flip side I know how frustrating it can be to go store to store. Site to site. Out of stock.

Or pay a arm and a leg.




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[Meety Peety]

I wasn't aware that people were still actually paying retard tax on ammo. I'm sorry but at this point in time, if you can't find ammo, you simply aren't trying very hard. That's fine if you want to not try very hard.. but how exactly do you go and then complain about having to pay inflated prices from the people who went out and made the effort you didn't want to.

I do not support gouging by any means, but the answer is not posting complaints about it on Calguns, it's doing your own footwork to find the ammo you need on store shelves instead of buying it from someone who already bought it off store shelves.

That said - I think some one you do need to realize that just as prices have permanently jumped after previous panics, the same has happened here. Prices will not go back to what they used to be, they never will. Even Walmart has finally raised their prices, albeit still lower than most other places.