WallMart no longer taking orders for Ammo

I talked to my local Walmart Sporting Goods manager this morning. He said he hasn't heard anything like that from hdqtrs. He said customers were waiting for him this morning when he got there a 7 AM. He had a case of 38's and a case of 9mm and it was all gone by 7:15. Latest news it's business as usual for Walmart and they are restocking as fast as they can.
 
Here's what I was told

My local NW Ohio Walmart said that Walmart HQ is no longer taking ammo orders from the stores. HQ is continuing to ration out ammo to the stores.

This makes sense in light of the current shortages.
 
There are two Walmarts I visit that both sell guns and ammo, but my last stop was about 2 weeks ago when they still had a few boxes left... It looks like they now mandate that the key to the ammo shelves be kept only with the manager of that store. So now an employee has to ring in for the manager, which can end up taking forever, depening on how busy they are. I waited over a half hour, and the employee the whole time kept asking me what I needed the ammo for... in fact she kept referring to them as "bullets"... "What'cha need dem bullets for?" I decided to just start paying a little more and buying at the gun shops instead.
 
WalMart ammo

On Tuesday the 15th local WalMart ammo shelves pretty empty. Yesterday they were well stocked w/ exception of .22 bricks and .223, also no primers except shotgun 209's. Looks like long wait for primers but at least they seem to be able to get most handgun and rifle ammo. I'm well stocked w/ components so no problem here, if you don't reload it looks like hunt and hope to find.
 
I stopped by Walmart in Northwest Indiana today and was told the same thing. The sales rep said it came down from Walmart corporate office that they were "not allowed to place any ammunition orders until further notice."
 
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Howdy,
Sad thing is that prior to Wal-Mart there were half a dozen small hardware stores around here that thought enough of a persons business to stock things for you. Target .22 ammo etc.
All perished or were annihilated by Sam Walton.
The scariest thing to me is if the proposed ban on internet sales would pass I could be dependent on Wal-Mart for my ammo/reloading needs.
Think how much that would suck for most competition shooters or special need shooters.
I see a lot of folks around the forum that don't belong to the NRA and I ask all of you to think about joining. I know that is a hard pill for some of you to swallow, but I ask that you think about it and what we face in the near future.
Thanks
Mike
 
I decided to just start paying a little more and buying at the gun shops instead.

This is what I did before reloading and this is what we ALL need to do. If we don't support the LGS's then they will be gone and all that will remain is a few government friendly corporations. Stop counting your pennies and start counting your blessings while you still have them.
 
Ammo? What ammo!

s&wchad said:
I didn't know Walmart ever took orders for ammo. I just make it a habbit to swing by sporting good on our weekly stop and look at the near empty ammo cabinet. On the rare occasion that they have Federal bulk .22's or reasonable target 9mm, I hunt down someone with a key!
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None at Walmart in Maryland. Can't even find magazines.:mad:
 
Went to Walmart.com and used the site to check availability of 22lr and 9mm ammo this morning. The website indicated that the local Walmart had both in stock. Took a ride to the store and bought two 50 round boxes of Federal 9mm FMJ and one box of Winchester bulk (555 rounds) 22lr. Wife bought the same. Now I can make a trip to the range.
 
The GM of my local store is a gun enthusiast, and responded to us by phone when asked about this. He stated that stores are not allowed to order ammunition, and the warehouses are using an allocation system, which distributes supplies evenly to all stores. Walmart is still buying whatever ammo they can get, and still trucking it out to stores as much as possible.
 
Here in Houston the local Walmarts have been getting ammo throughout the frenzy - just not nearly as much as before, If you have the time to check them frequently, you will find much of what you want.
 
I talked to a gentleman who works at the local Walmart ditribution center near here and he says they get ammo almost daily and it is sent to stores which usually sell it all in 1 to 2 days even with the 3 box limit.
 
09flhtcu said:
Just heard on the news that Wallmart will no longer take orders for ammo:mad: Thats just wrong. I they ever do take orders again they won't come from me.
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I didn't know that Wal-Mart ever "took orders" for ammo. If you check their website, they always said available only in stores... Maybe I misunderstood OP.

As for the W-M haters, their home office is in Bentonville, AR - not NYC. In fact, Wal-Marts aren't welcome in most parts of NYC. That would make for strange bedfellows.

JMO.

LL
 
I was "in town" yesterday, and stopped in to Wally World to pick up some contact lens solution. As always, I stopped by the sporting goods department to see if they had any ammo - as usual during recent months, the ammo cabinet was just about bare (I had been to the gun shop earlier in the day, picked up two boxes of 22LR (their weekly limit per customer), a pound of powder (limit 1 lb) and 200 primers (limit). The lady at Wally (an avid shooter and hunter, btw) said the managers (especially the regional manager) had been asking why the department's sales were down so far, and she told them that when "corporate" won't let them order, and only ships a limited supply of their biggest seller (ammo), their sales are going to be down. They hadn't figured that out! BTW, the real shortages at Wally became noticeable after their CEO met with Biden/Obama and agreed to limit ammo sales "pending legislation." That is when they stopped allowing the stores to order their ammo, and began sending out miniscule shipments of same.
 
Doesn't matter the excuses. Wal Mart and Dicks sporting goods will never see another penny from me. I used to buy my little sisters coats from dicks and I'll pay triple the price from other places online during holiday season before I ever park my truck in a dicks sporting goods parking lot. May be stupid, I don't care it's just my opinion.
 
The sad part is people continue to shop Walmart. I dropped them several years ago.

If you quit shopping there. It will get a message across!!!
 
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