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Showing Original Post only (View all)Our country is sick! Massive ammo shortages in gun shops! [View all]
http://money.cnn.com/2013/03/12/news/companies/guns-ammo-shortage/index.htmlI say now is the time to levy a high tax on ammo since the price just went up. Let them pay through the teeth to get their fixes.
Gun enthusiasts are buying firearms with unparalleled zeal. As a result, ammunition is in short supply nationwide.
"We can't get any inventory within a 100-mile radius," said Mark Campbell, owner of Mid America Arms in St. Louis. He's having a hard time keeping ammo in stock. "It started right around the election, as soon as President Obama mentioned gun control. But right after the school shooting in [Newtown] Connecticut, that's when it went crazy."
Even the big ammunition retailers are feeling the pinch. Wal-Mart (WMT, Fortune 500) has been rationing its ammo since January, to three boxes per customer per day. And when a gun retailer like Cabela's (CAB) gets two or three shrink-wrapped pallets of 5.56 mm or .223 ammunition for AR-15 assault rifles, they're "cleaned off like locusts, within a couple of hours," according to Brian Rafn, a research director at Morgan Dempsey Capital Management in Milwaukee who follows ammo manufacturers.
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The mayors against guns should buy them all, then buy the business and shut them down
graham4anything
Mar 2013
#1
Once the court/law/candidates are changed, the world will be an anti-gun oyster
graham4anything
Mar 2013
#6
Hillary/Napolitano 16/20 Michelle24 Michelle/Schlossberg28 Schlossberg 32 36
graham4anything
Mar 2013
#13
How many folks have mayors shot, like CCWers such as Zimmy, Holmes, Stawicki, & other CCW'd yahoos?
Hoyt
Mar 2013
#46
A classroom ankle deep in the blood of first graders tends to upset and disgust normal people
Fumesucker
Mar 2013
#84
Every other reason for having a gun has been rebuked. There is no other.
graham4anything
Mar 2013
#18
Even reloading equipment and supplies are in short supply with long back-order times
slackmaster
Mar 2013
#20
"It started right around the election, as soon as President Obama mentioned gun control"
bullwinkle428
Mar 2013
#22
All the gun shops I drive past in GA always have "Sale!" banners out front.
RiffRandell
Mar 2013
#27
We are not sick because of drones,wars, poverty, health care...but people buying before prices go up
The Straight Story
Mar 2013
#28
Not at all, unless your area has some kind of fire code that limits storage of ammunition
slackmaster
Mar 2013
#55
Gun manufacturers should have to display photos of mangled corpses and wounded people
Lint Head
Mar 2013
#35
there was a line that stretched a mile-long to get into the gun show in san diego..
frylock
Mar 2013
#40
And this is why its not unreasonable for a regular shooter to keep 10K of ammo on hand
aikoaiko
Mar 2013
#58