Even if you aren't seeing the depletions where you live, you might want to go ahead a buy some. I can only speculate that prices are far more likely to go up, sooner rather than later. Of course that's just an opinion....agbullet2k1 wrote:I guess I'm just not seeing the shortage of ammo. Most of the stores near me never kept more than a few boxes of each brand in stock at any time, but would special order for you. If they're gone now, I'd chalk that up to someone buying a handgun and just wanting to buy ammo for it at the same time. Went to Walmart last night and they had probably 20 boxes each of WWB 9mm, 40 and 45. The rifle calibers that were short were deer calibers. Shotgun shells are overflowing into the aisles. There was a midaisle setup with the Federal and Remington 100 packs on proud display next to childrens' bikes.
I would believe that gun sales are up though. Took me almost an hour and a half to get any help at basspro the other day, due to clerks filling out paperwork for about 10 people. I *would* like to get one more hunting rifle while I can get out of having to phone the purchase in, but I'm not stressing over it. I can't see standard rifles being on a political hit list for a while, plus I'm already up 4 guns this year.
If you want just a couple of boxes of handgun ammo, any place I went had ammo, if you weren't brand or box size specific. Sportsmans was by far the most depleted. As I said, no 250 rd UMC 9mm, and just a couple of boxes each of UMC 250 rd .40 and .45. Small numbers of 50 round boxes.
All 3 had plenty of shotgun ammo.
Just 1 observation from a very small sample of stores all within a few miles of each other....