223/556 Ammo Shortage. Can You Buy Ammo Where You Live?

[Milspec78]

I haven’t bought any loaded ammo in about 5 years,been reloading.it is quite laborious (only 5.56 case prep),but rewarding and I can load decent quality 62gr 5.56 for 17 cents a piece.
Don’t play their game,learn to do it yourself!!!

[Pappabear]

I haven’t bought any loaded ammo in about 5 years,been reloading.it is quite laborious (only 5.56 case prep),but rewarding and I can load decent quality 62gr 5.56 for 17 cents a piece.
Don’t play their game,learn to do it yourself!!!

We don’t even load ball 55 grain shit anymore with those 62 gr BTHP bullets so cheap. And we can fly those out to 750 easy peezy. And if we want to slap steel up close, so be it.

PB

[Gallo Pazzesco]

In California there has been no 223/556 ammo for a month. There may be some steel out there but it is even rare. My gun store tells me it is everywhere. They say it may be a year until this ammo returns. I check in Arizona and they have no ammo either. Dipping into my stockpile is something I do not want to do for practice. What is the situation where you live?

We went to PSA yesterday, their main store in Columbia, SC, just to see what they had in stock. Line out the door as usual, in the middle of a weekday, and they had no ammo. Has very few carbines. Plenty of bolties. A decent selection of handguns but not as many as usual.

No ammo. No personal defense, no target ammo, no nothing except the usual hunting caliber boltie stuff like .270, 25-06, .240, etc.

We're already stocked up and loaded for whatever because I started prepping heavily back in the 90s after the AWB was passed and I've been obsessed with it every since. Plus I reload like a mad man (as everyone who has seen the pics of my reloading room will attest-to) ... but yesterday was a shocker. It's far more dire than it was when Obango was elected.

What was really an eye opener for my brother, son and I were the number of blacks standing in line and buying firearms yesterday. We'd never seen it like that before but my youngest Son, who recently turned 21 and bought his first handgun and already has his CWP tells me, every time he has been there looking for ammo since the Floyd thing went down ... he said he's seeing a lot of blacks every time he goes.

A lot of the blacks I saw appeared to be fine upstanding citizens ... several were wearing MAGA hats and t shirts. But there were some thug types there as well ... pants down around their asses in wife beaters and definitely not very social; I guess that's the way to put it. Heavy loud vulgarities, ebonics, grab assing, trying to intimidate with looks, etc.

Anyways, it's an observational perspective that several others noticed as well.

Thing is ... buy all the guns you want -- there's no ammo to be had. It's sketchy at best.

[R0CKETMAN]

What was really an eye opener for my brother, son and I were the number of blacks standing in line and buying firearms yesterday. We'd never seen it like that before but my youngest Son, who recently turned 21 and bought his first handgun and already has his CWP tells me, every time he has been there looking for ammo since the Floyd thing went down ... he said he's seeing a lot of blacks every time he goes.

A lot of the blacks I saw appeared to be fine upstanding citizens ... several were wearing MAGA hats and t shirts. But there were some thug types there as well ... pants down around their asses in wife beaters and definitely not very social; I guess that's the way to put it. Heavy loud vulgarities, ebonics, grab assing, trying to intimidate with looks, etc.

Anyways, it's an observational perspective that several others noticed as well.

Quite the myopic observation

[ColtSeavers]

Quite the myopic observation

Wtf...

[AndyLate]

Quite the myopic observation

Except it's really not. Perhaps not the most politically correct way to refer to our melanin blessed neighbors, but the observation is solid. A ton of people with a range of skin colors who don't fit the mold of the normal gun store customer are arming themselves.

We should be concerned what it means for our country - folks on both sides of the political spectrum are panicking because they feel our society's collapse is emminent.

Andy

[Gallo Pazzesco]

Quite the myopic observation

Whereas your observation, obviously, is one dictated by political correctness, dishonesty, hypocrisy and mendacity. Your mere use of the words "myopic observation" would suggest that only your mind is smaller that your dick.

What you attempted to do with your standard libprog cuck one liner reply was project your marxist socialist sensibilities, lay some kind of white guilt trip, which I am absolutely immune-to but more than willing to engage with when it comes to SJWs such as you. I related an actual observational fact. I have zero animus towards anyone except white guilt cucks such as yourself.

Your signature tells even more about you. Bones heal? I've broken 17 of them in my time, many at Bragg, a few in Vicenza, a few in construction, maybe a couple in sports. The only bones you've broken is some dude breaking his boner off up in your ponderosa with you moaning for more. Chicks (you spelled it wrong) dig scars? I've had almost 400 stitches ... almost half of those to my face. But you're right, they absolutely do dig them - it's been like a recipe for scoring patooty in my experience. Ducks on a pond. Especially when my buddies are sitting around telling the girls how I got them. Whereas you have none except those self inflicted by yourself during your manic depressive episodes when your momma forgot to give you your drugs for a couple of days.

Pain goes away? This one exposes you for the fricking poser that you are.

You've never suffered real pain boy. Otherwise you would know that it only gets worse the older you get, especially when the barometric pressure drops and storms roll in. And keep ****ing with people and one day you'll run across the wrong person and he'll show you what true pain is all about .... boy.

So, by all means, play your word games.

[tanksoldier]

Quite the myopic observation

Just the opposite.

[Voodoochild]

This is a discussion about ammo availability not bitching at each other. I know it's 2020 and people have gone crazy but that's no excuse to not act like adults. Take your bitching and moaning to PM.

[3ACR_Scout]

No ammo any where in Michigan. It's been gone since March. The price is doubled in cost. Reload powder and primers are scarce also. Are there middle men hoarding ammo for a better price?

I just moved to Michigan and haven't explored much yet, but I stopped by the closest Dunham's Sports a couple times just to check things out ammo-wise. When I was living in PA, they ran some pretty good sales that brought prices down to a competitive level, and certainly good enough for the convenience of stopping by the store on the way home to grab a few boxes. It was just kind of interesting at the one here in Michigan, they had just received an ammo shipment that morning that was still sitting on a big pallet in the sporting goods section. It had dozens of cases of 12 ga shells, including some (either Federal or Winchester) that were labeled as "defensive" rounds. There was a single empty cardboard box sitting on top of the stack of 12 ga ammo that was labeled as holding four 100-round boxes of American Eagle .223 FMJ. I guess that's all they got in that shipment - 400 rounds of .223 - unless someone had snatched up a whole case or two. One thing that I thought was interesting is that I haven't seen any signs in Dunham's limiting how many boxes you can purchase. They have a handful of .22LR, and 7.62x39 pops up in small quantities (seen some 2 out of 3 times I've been by), but the AK stuff is $.50/round. Tons of 12 ga on the shelves and lots of hunting rifle calibers. Some expensive Hornady Critical Defense .45 in stock yesterday.

I also stopped by a local indoor range / training center (CQT) that has quite a few rental guns. Like all rental places (that I've been to), they require that you buy the ammo from them that will be shot in those guns. They told me that since they haven't been able to get ammo, their rental program has essentially shut down, with the exception of some .22LR guns. That was a second order effect of the shortage that I hadn't really thought about.