poll* buying ammo just to resell it. Right or Wrong?

[CENTURION24]

I needed ammo badly for when I get it, I shoot it. So I downloaded the walmart app and set my alarm app to go off at 4am every morning to check if its instock. Well sure enough a few of my local walmarts had received a shippment. It was 4:15am when I pulled up and luckily I was the 3rd person in line out of 8. 1st guy was there at 12:30am and the other guy got there, "a few minutes before you" so he says. Those guys ae there everyday, swooping up everything that they can resell. It makes shooters like me either have to pay way over store prices or get to a store way early just to go shooting. It sucks for me but I'm honestly not sure if I think its wrong.

What do you think?
Is it wrong to buy ammo just to resell It?
Or do you see no problem with that?
Or who cares?

 

[bp231986]

I would not buy to resell, but i will also not say that others should not. The USA is still a free place...well kinda.

 

[timn8er]

I don't care what some people say that its just free market goings on. The same people will tell you that "if you don't like the price of the ammo, don't buy it." Sure, but if you want to use your guns for anything more than pretty paperweights, you don't have a choice, & the reason you don't have a choice is because of people buying up all they can to make a profit off of somebody else.

 

[laskt9]

I think its wrong and sends the wrong message to new shooters. Selling out fellow shooters for a little extra cash. So does saying "you should have stocked up" and "don't pay the price then"

I guess it just shows how Americans have become more recently. The dollar has a control of a lot of us. We work every day for it well into our older ages just so we can "retire"

 

[JPriest]

I guess that is what every gun shop does. I personally wouldn't buy at retail prices and try to resell. I have bought large amounts of ammo before for a price break and then sold half of it to friends, but I did that at my cost, not to make a profit.

 

[Shuutr]

I think it is wrong. I think there are better ways to make a buck that doesn't involve a) making a problem worse (removing reasonably priced ammo from supply) b) taking advantage of the desperate or ignorant (selling at higher than retail prices because of a shortage) and c) turning off newcomers in a period where we need to be growing the number of people who own guns, shoot guns, and share their enjoyable experience with people that have not been exposed to the hobby (pricing the hobby out of reach for many).

It is a free country and economics in action, I just think it is wrong.

 

[Klein Helmer]

I think its wrong and sends the wrong message to new shooters. Selling out fellow shooters for a little extra cash. So does saying "you should have stocked up" and "don't pay the price then"

I guess it just shows how Americans have become more recently. The dollar has a control of a lot of us. We work every day for it well into our older ages just so we can "retire"

Gotta disagree here.

Making a buck off another (even when it might be a bit shady) is just a function of human nature, and it's nothing new.

To answer the question, it sucks if you're on the wrong side of the deal, but again, it's to be expected.

 

[Alpo]

I see nothing wrong with it. Howsomever, if I saw someone doing that, I'd turn 'em in to the ATF. "Being in the business" of selling ammo requires a license. If they are going to play, they need to pay.

 

[UncleEd]

Alpo,

I believe you've hit the right solution.

They're dealing and should have an FFL.

 

[therevjay]

I wouldn't. But, is it really any different then buying stock in a company and then selling it for a profit? Or buying and selling cars, or houses?

 

[Andy Griffith]

Turn it in to the state for them not collecting sales tax and not having a business license.

I believe one only has to have an FFL for ammunition if they manufacture/reload it commercially.

 

[Klein Helmer]

I wouldn't. But, is it really any different then buying stock in a company and then selling it for a profit? Or buying and selling cars, or houses?

That was my take.

(was not aware of the license requirements but the sentiment stands)

 

[arjay]

If a guy is willing to go to Walmart in the wee hours of the morning,he should be rewarded for it

 

[gdnagle]

Everyone has different scruples, me myself I feel guilty when I sell something and make a profit, sometimes, but if you put it on a auction site then apparently it is worth it to the people bidding on it so if they are willing to buy it then that eases my guilt some. Some people would rather pay the high price then look for it. I have bought several thousand rounds of .223 and 5.56 recently but paid regular price. I don't sell ammo and have found some at Wally World but not recently, don't know what's going on now but even shotgun shells are getting hard to find I did just find 250 rds. of 00 buck on the internet cheap and bought it for my stash I have been told I'm a hoarder. You can't make any money at my Wally World they only allow 1 box of whatever when they have it, per day. If I saw some and anyone I knew wanted it I would pick it up for them and let them have it for what I paid.

 

[Harrison]

May I remind people of the fable of the grasshopper and the ant. There is a moral there and it applies to ammo.

 

[DeadAye]

I think that's what WalMart is doing too -

 

[rwsmith]

I don't think....

I don't think it's civilized or ethical, but I stop short at saying it is 'wrong'. That is one way that our economical system works, whether it's in your favor or not.

 

[Poodle Soup]

In the current situation? Its wrong for anyone who supports our cause to do it. It makes ammo harder to find, makes it harder for new shooters to enter into the gun world, harder to train/practice... just to make a dollar? Will be nice when no one is able to afford this anymore so no one cares if the 2nd amendment goes or not.

 

[pownal55]

I go to walmart 3 days a week an hour before it opens and stand in line to keep myself and three family members in 22 ammo. I would rather do this than pay a scalpers fee. Any extra I get is sold to friends at retail price.

 

[kwalityguy]

Yeah, I buy ammo to resell it. I buy it at Walmart or Cabelas and sell it to my son or my buddy for the exact same price as I paid. If I find 22, 9 or 45 I buy my limit and offer it to my shooting buddies without mark up. When they go, they do the same for me.