rklessdriver wrote:
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GRIS wrote:

THE BIG QUESTION IN MY MIND IS "WHY IS THERE SUCH A SHORTAGE OF .22 RIMFIRE?"

YOU CAN FIND .223, YOU CAN FIND 9MM, YOU CAN FIND .40 OR .45 ACP, BUT .22LR IS LIKE HEN'S TEETH. IS IT HORDERS, WOULD BE PROFITEERS, SURVIVALISTS, OR IS THE PROFIT MARGIN JUST HIGHER ON CENTERFIRE AMMO? DON'T THINK THE GOVT IS BUYING UP .22LR.

THIS IS WHAT MOST PEOPLE SHOOT MOST, THE DEMAND IS THERE, SO WHERE ARE THE SHELLS?

Locally in my area I know there are 10-15 "profiteers" buying up every box of 22LR availiable.

At the last gun show, (which is a very small show held at my VFW post) there were 4 people with tables stacked full of 22LR...

One of the guys bragged to a buddy of mine (who is an FFL and had the table next to him) that he has a "group of retirees who go to the local Walmarts, Gander Mtn and Dicks stores every day to buy every box of 22LR on the shelf". I kid you not - This SOB had 2 tables and 22LR ammo stacked chest high covering every inch.

He was selling the 333 box of Winchester for $40 and the 550 Federals or Remington 550's for $55 and the Remington Bucket-O-Bullets for $100.... Everybody knows they are $18, $29 and $59 at Walmart.

If I go and check my local guntrader web sight there are 10-15 ads with people re-selling 22LR for 50% profit.

In time it will pass. These people can't buy it all up forever and from what I saw at the last couple of gunshows regular people have stopped paying panic prices. It's just like the 2008 election all over again but it's on a bigger scale and hence taking longer to self corerct.
Will