Why my Walmart has plenty of ammo

[Houdini1953]

This morning I went to the sporting goods department of my local Walmart and they had plenty of every caliber and at decent prices unlike a couple of months ago. I found out the reason why they have a good selection when the clerk that got my ammo from the locked case told me that I could only buy one box of any ammo, I told him I own 357, 9mm 40 .223 45 and what if I wanted one box of each caliber he said no it was one box of ammo period, so I guess I will have to go there at shift changes and every day to resupply for all my weapons!

 

[Gunhacker]

I that's what it's going to take to break the ammo buying mentality cycle we've been stuck in. People aren't going to voluntarily exercise some temporary restraint to allow production to catch up.

Until a balance between supply and demand is restored, nothing is going to change.

There's only two numbers in the equation... the number of rounds being made, minus the number of rounds being shot and the resulting total has been a negative number for years.

One of those numbers has got to change to get a different total, we know we can't change the first one, but we dang sure as heck can change the second number in the equation, if people aren't willing to do that on a wide scale... welcome to the new norm in ammo availability and buying. Get used to it because we'll be stuck with for a long time.

 

[Houdini1953]

Well it seems to me that now would be a great time to start a production facility for ammunition if you can afford to do so, if not get together a group that can finance a small operation that eventually becomes a large operation!

 

[LT4]

Try another Wal Mart and see if you get the same answer.

 

[jrs70]

For the last several months my local WalMart only has a 3 box limit on 22's.

 

[brucev]

This must be a local practice. When I drive into the city to visit the hospitals and nursing home, I usually swing by WalMart. If it has ammo in stock, they allow you to buy what you want except that there is a three box limit on .22 LR ammunition (which is never in stock).

 

[cola490]

This morning I went to the sporting goods department of my local Walmart and they had plenty of every caliber and at decent prices unlike a couple of months ago. I found out the reason why they have a good selection when the clerk that got my ammo from the locked case told me that I could only buy one box of any ammo, I told him I own 357, 9mm 40 .223 45 and what if I wanted one box of each caliber he said no it was one box of ammo period, so I guess I will have to go there at shift changes and every day to resupply for all my weapons!

Be grateful that you Wal Mart sells ammo at all. My store in Vernon Hills, Illinois does not sell any type of ammo.

 

[whitestang]

The Wal Mart where I live sells any amount except .22 LR, which you can only get 3 boxes. They always have lots of .45,.40,.38 and .357 and a few 9mm.

 

[snakeye]

This must be a local practice. When I drive into the city to visit the hospitals and nursing home, I usually swing by WalMart. If it has ammo in stock, they allow you to buy what you want except that there is a three box limit on .22 LR ammunition (which is never in stock).

Same here can buy all I want with the exception of 22lr...still 3 box limit

 

[snubbyfan]

Well it looks like I'm going to havta switch to either 9mm or .40, Walmarts got plenty of each but I carry a .38 special. I'm not in danger of running out any time soon but I haven't seen and .38 special or .357 magnum in a while.

 

[scott1970]

Get used to it because we'll be stuck with for a long time.

I choose not to. Yesterday I had a little free time, so I cast a whole bunch of .41 and .357 bullets. Won't be long until they are ready to be taken to the range. Plentiful, dirt cheap, and accurate.

 

[alwslate]

The last time I was in a Walmart and asked about ammo they had a
one, 50 rd box limit on 22s and 9mms, which they had none of, and
no limit on anything else. This was a few weeks ago.

 

[jgh4445]

I have been in 6 Walmarts in Alabama over the past 3 weeks. All have 3 box (50 round boxes ) limit on .22's or limit of one 100 round box. They also have signs posted that .22 ammo will only be sold on Saturdays beginning at 9AM.

 

[gwpercle]

My wally mart has plenty of center fire rifle and pistol ammo, and plenty of shotgun shells....what they don't have is 22 LR ammo!
I can reload all my centr fire's but haven't figured how to reload rim fire's yet....but where there is a will, there is a way.
Gary

 

[brucev]

I have been in 6 Walmarts in Alabama over the past 3 weeks. All have 3 box (50 round boxes ) limit on .22's or limit of one 100 round box. They also have signs posted that .22 ammo will only be sold on Saturdays beginning at 9AM.

Hum... not a bad idea at all! Would most assuredly be better for the customer. And it would most certainly flip off the flippers. Gotta love a win/win policy!

 

[Maddmax]

The one here has a 3 box limit on 22's,a one brick limit (if they have any) and no limits on anything else. Have weapons in the racks.

Go 40 miles South to that Walley World and they sell ZERO ammo or any weapons or any gun related supplies what so ever.

 

[LoboGunLeather]

Well it seems to me that now would be a great time to start a production facility for ammunition if you can afford to do so, if not get together a group that can finance a small operation that eventually becomes a large operation!

Sounds like a good plan, right up to the point where you have jumped through all the hoops to obtain the FFL required for ammunition manufacturers, paid the premium for product liability insurance, invested in a few million dollars worth of equipment, and worked through the bureaucracies (state and local officials looking at your applications and shouting "You want to build AN AMMUNITION PLANT here?), all before you produced one round of ammunition. Then you'll be accounting for each sale and remitting the 11% Federal Excise Tax on everything sold. And all of this assumes that you'll be able to get all the brass, powders, primers, and bullets necessary to produce your ammunition (like there aren't already a few other manufacturers with steady streams of orders for everything).

I have reloading dies for just about everything that I shoot. I have bullet molds for practically everything. I have several hundred pounds of wheelweights and linotype metal for making bullets. What I don't seem to be able to find are ready supplies of powder and primers, and what is available is priced at 3 to 10 times what we were paying just a few years ago.

There are no simple solutions. The entire marketplace has been completely unbalanced over the past 6 years, with demand far exceeding any available supplies. For the foreseeable future I'll just continue hordeing what I have and buying what I can get.

 

[Arik]

No ammo at any Walmart within city limits since 1998 or so. No guns either. Or BB guns.

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[hoc9sw]

The last few days there has been a big shipment of 9 & 45 Federal to my Wally Worlds, enough that it has stayed on the shelf. No limits except .22, which is already limited by its absence.

38 and 357 - a few boxes of WWB, but the "flood" of 38 was a few weeks ago, then none since.

 

[gumpys]

Why do people still buy from Walmart, Gander mountain, cabela's. They rip people off all the time but yet all I hear people mentioning is going to these places to buy ammo or guns???