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Reloading
The Great PRIMER Depression of 2020
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<blockquote data-quote="Shootin4fun" data-source="post: 2047609" data-attributes="member: 28741"><p>Right, the question is, "What is driving the current ammo 'shortage'?". Unless someone can point to governmental contracts, either domestic or foreign, the answer has to be public "over-purchasing". If the latter is the case, then inventories will even out again in the not too distant future. I mean you can only use so much toilet paper before it either just takes up too much space, is a fire hazard, or you run out of money. How many of us really want to be sitting on a couple hundred thousand rounds? So you stop buying it and so does everyone else who bought so much they had to store it in the trunk of their car, and wahlah, you start seeing it on shelves for a whole day or 2 at a time again. </p><p></p><p>And even if fears of internet purchases being banned are well founded (not happening in the next 12 months for sure), sporting goods stores are the way we always bought it anyway so that's more of an inconvenience than a reason to freak out. Plus from what I've seen sporting goods stores are not selling it at 2x and 3x the price. That's a very poor marketing move for a brick and mortar outlet. Internet outlets don't care about repeat business as much because they have less invested in their business and can fold up on a dime and restart under a new name.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Shootin4fun, post: 2047609, member: 28741"] Right, the question is, "What is driving the current ammo 'shortage'?". Unless someone can point to governmental contracts, either domestic or foreign, the answer has to be public "over-purchasing". If the latter is the case, then inventories will even out again in the not too distant future. I mean you can only use so much toilet paper before it either just takes up too much space, is a fire hazard, or you run out of money. How many of us really want to be sitting on a couple hundred thousand rounds? So you stop buying it and so does everyone else who bought so much they had to store it in the trunk of their car, and wahlah, you start seeing it on shelves for a whole day or 2 at a time again. And even if fears of internet purchases being banned are well founded (not happening in the next 12 months for sure), sporting goods stores are the way we always bought it anyway so that's more of an inconvenience than a reason to freak out. Plus from what I've seen sporting goods stores are not selling it at 2x and 3x the price. That's a very poor marketing move for a brick and mortar outlet. Internet outlets don't care about repeat business as much because they have less invested in their business and can fold up on a dime and restart under a new name. [/QUOTE]
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