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If you are selling, maybe you were well stocked before the "crisis".

Either way, I'm not buying or selling. Could care less as the vultures devour themselves. Eventually, everyone will either get a clue and vote with their $$$ or not if it's so precious to them. To me, if I'm spending $100 on a box of 500 22lr, I'll be shooting the real thing...centerfire...which I can still find some at the local store for only slightly inflated prices of a few extra dollars a box of 50 over what it previously sold at.

Honestly, if it's not already in my box, I'm not buying it to shoot.
 
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erick1987 said:
i buy ammo to shoot not sell. if i have 1k or 20k rounds, i guarantee it's going through my barrel.
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EXACTLY!- My local LGS wants to buy back ammo I purchased - at a slight profit to me- to let them have some stock to sell for $$$. I though about it for a minute then realized I enjoy shooting! If I sell my ammo, I have less to shoot. When I am forced to buy more ammo, it WILL cost more than what I paid in 2010-12.
 
Not everyone selling is buying it up at Walmart. Some of us have been buying a few boxes or a case every time we had a couple of bucks and built up a stockpile.

Nobody is forcing anyone to pay the inflated pricing. If someone wants to sell off part of their stockpile to finance something else, more power to them.
 
The guys who are doing all the crying and whinning are guys that never set a minimum inventory and keep it up. I always keep about a years supply and then update it as I shoot it. Why because I never want to have to buy when things like this happen as we have been through it before in 2008 when Obama got voted in the first time.
 
Buying ammunition is a thought that never crosses my mind as I roll all my own, and rarely shoot anything I can't reload.
 
beemerphile said:
Do we need your permission to sell too, or just to buy?
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Good point---I needed a certain type ammo and I paid an
inflated price on GB and I knew it---oh well I will do what I
have to if I want to shoot! If my paying a higher then usual
price is causing someone grief,too bad. Pete
 
erick1987 said:
to me it is taking advantage of fellow gun owners. not saying u cant sell it but at 2-5x retail is gouging. kind of like gas after 9-11.
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Fellow gun owner doesn't have to buy it's their decision if they want to pay outrageous prices and keep letting the vultures make money. Kind of like Magpul selling large amount of mags to people in Colorado first and ending up on gun broker. For me I'm getting low probably down to 15k rounds but will wait till prices get back to normal, I've got 3 high quality air guns I can shoot no ammo shortage there yet and they are accurate to keep in practice with.
 
Funny thing, I have seen posts here and there about ammo shortages. However, due to health issues I haven't been shooting in a while. I have enough 9mm, .357, .38+P, .44mag ammo to last me a while, and it was bought 2 or 3 years ago, maybe longer. Now for the funny part. I was visiting a friend last week, who owns the farm where I did most of my hunting, fishing, and shooting. In conversation, I asked about his family, and he said, " you know what that crazy (name whithheld) has been doing? He is going around to all the Walmarts and other stores where ammo is sold, and buying all that they have. I asked him why, as I know that the work he does keeps him too busy to shoot it. He said that he is convinced that Obama is going to put a stop to all ammo sales outside military and police." This guy is a professional person who makes enough to afford to buy all that he wants, and is apparently doing so. According to my friend, he is buying everything except some of the exotic hunting calibers. He also is told by the employees when shipments will arrive, and it never hits the shelves. When he told me about it, I thought that it was just another one of his idiosyncrasies. Now that I read some of the comments, I know what this guy is doing, and it sounds just like something that he would do. It wouldn't matter to him if someone couldn't find ammo to take their grandson or granddaughter shooting, or even worse, what he could find he wouldn't be able to afford. What you guys do, and why you do it, is none of my business. I am just glad right now that I don't need any more ammo, and probably never will. God bless you all! David
 
erick1987 said:
i'm advising. if you are selling, thanks for contributing to the missing ammunition in stores.
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The ammunition I sold is ammo I bought a couple of years ago. I started the auctions at a penny and got thank-you's from several of the buyers. Take your gouging monologue somewhere else. What I contributed to was supply, which drives market prices down, not up. One of the buyers was a Boy Scout leader who was buying .22LR out of his own pocket for his scouts' marksmanship shooting. He paid for 2,000 rounds and I sent him 4,000 rounds of mini-mag.

Your unimpeachable source is impeachable for at least two reasons:

1) I added up all of the .22LR on Gunbroker right now and there is about 1.2million rounds - close to his estimate. But that is eight hours of production at one CCI plant - not to mention every other plant of every other manufacturer. Gunbroker is not the problem, just the handy villain.

2) Your unimpeachable source is wearing a Glock T-shirt and hat.
 
i havent bought any ammo from gunbroker nor paid more than 1.5x nominal prices. I have 10k rounds of .22LR and dont own a rifle to shoot it from but not looking to sell. I buy when I find a good price and have been for a long time. The only reason I got behind the 8 ball in 1 caliber is because I bought a gun chambered in it after the insanity began.
 
beemerphile said:
The ammunition I sold is ammo I bought a couple of years ago. I started the auctions at a penny and got thank-you's from several of the buyers. Take your gouging monologue somewhere else. What I contributed to was supply, which drives market prices down, not up. One of the buyers was a Boy Scout leader who was buying .22LR out of his own pocket for his scouts' marksmanship shooting. He paid for 2,000 rounds and I sent him 4,000 rounds of mini-mag.

Your unimpeachable source is impeachable for at least two reasons:

1) I added up all of the .22LR on Gunbroker right now and there is about 1.2million rounds - close to his estimate. But that is eight hours of production at one CCI plant - not to mention every other plant of every other manufacturer. Gunbroker is not the problem, just the handy villain.

2) Your unimpeachable source is wearing a Glock T-shirt and hat.
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Don't apologize because you had the foresight to stock up and are now making money.
All these guys moaning didn't.

I bought houses ten years ago and sold them for double... Maybe I should have sold them to my fellow homeowners for what I paid.

These people will be whining and complaining about how life is not fair for the rest of THEIRS.....

Congrats on making a few bucks.
 
beemerphile said:
The ammunition I sold is ammo I bought a couple of years ago. I started the auctions at a penny and got thank-you's from several of the buyers. Take your gouging monologue somewhere else. What I contributed to was supply, which drives market prices down, not up. One of the buyers was a Boy Scout leader who was buying .22LR out of his own pocket for his scouts' marksmanship shooting. He paid for 2,000 rounds and I sent him 4,000 rounds of mini-mag.

Your unimpeachable source is impeachable for at least two reasons:

1) I added up all of the .22LR on Gunbroker right now and there is about 1.2million rounds - close to his estimate. But that is eight hours of production at one CCI plant - not to mention every other plant of every other manufacturer. Gunbroker is not the problem, just the handy villain.

2) Your unimpeachable source is wearing a Glock T-shirt and hat.
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ok. sorry. ill give you that. its not gunbroker but the "handy villains" that use it. i retract my statement to say avoid buying overpriced ammo on auction sites and rewarding the "handy villains". how much of that cci ammo u think really hits the shelves before being picked up in the supply chain?
 
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