why is it so damn hard to find primers and hand gun ammo? is it hoarding? are we gonna have to start practicing with airsoft BB's? i want to believe that all of this is overreacting to a presumed, but essentially unreal, threat. i don't want to face shortages of anything for reasons of fear...(for lack of a better word). price gouging primers? come on...! disbelief...maybe a bad thing? i remain optimistic...older and hopefully wiser.

why is it so damn hard to find primers and hand gun ammo? is it hoarding? are we gonna have to start practicing with airsoft BB's? i want to believe that all of this is overreacting to a presumed, but essentially unreal, threat. i don't want to face shortages of anything for reasons of fear...(for lack of a better word). price gouging primers? come on...! disbelief...maybe a bad thing? i remain optimistic...older and hopefully wiser.

In a free market society the avialability and price of a product is based on supply and demand. Currently, the demand is high and the supply is low, therefore the prices have increased.

You could always go ask the unqualified black man for some taxpayer stimulus money, it the <STRIKE>socialist</STRIKE> new American way.

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I read a blurb somewhere the other day wherein it was claimed that many of the ammo manufacturers scale back production in the late fall historically. Hunting season is over and winter is here which, in more normal times, causes a reduction in shooting by most sportsmen and, hence, demand for ammo. They also do it to reduce inventory and get ready for tax season, there presumably being some tax/accounting advantages to having reduced inventories. The norm is then to ramp up production in the spring, March or April, in anticipation of the shooting seasons of spring, summer and autumn.

This year was different because of the election, fears, compounded by the bad economy which only added to the sense of uncertainty, and that resulted in hoarding. The writer claimed that shelves will start to fill up again soon. I hope that he is right. Some of what he stated sounded plausible. Guess we shall see.

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