I used to work part time at a gun store. I used to sell 50 rd boxes of 9mm for $11.95. 5.56 was $8.99 for 20. Now both are above a dollar a round and it's disgusting.
I think that your concept of price for SKSs is all pre-Ban, c. 1990s. Back then you could get an SKS for around 100 bucks, but, at least since Obama, $300 has been the minimum.
Now, even a Mosin Nagant costs $180 or more. That was about 5 years ago, when I was pricing them.
Really? How much is one on average? I've never looked into one, Aside from a few pistols and revolvers, I only have an AR and a Ruger 5.56 but I'd like to get something in 7.62..
They had an AK too, which I almost bought instead. It was a little more beat up though. That and I had concerns about everything thats happened up to this point, and 30 rnd mags being banned.
I remember a friend telling me how he knew some journalist's story of the war in Nicaragua was bullshit. There's a passage where the journalist describes hearing the sound of some Nicaraguans all turn the safeties off their guns simultaneously.
I really worry all that ammo comes with such a hefty price tag that people will be reluctant to ever use it. I can't imagine how much unused ammo is going to go to waste neatly stacked in their boxes. Now if only there was a use for millions of rounds of ammo...
I got into guns late, and part of me is glad because I don't know the difference.
I mean it's just always been expensive to me. I mean it doesn't mean it shouldn't be cheaper but I don't have the memories of when I could buy gun ammo iat nice low prices So I don't feel like anybody's rubbing my nose and anything.
People pay higher than retail from scalpers. This rewards scalpers for ripping off everyone. Scalpers continue to buy all they can and resale at inflated prices. This keeps the price high and the availability low.
That went on for 2-3 years under Obama, primarily with 22LR. It wasn't available ANYWHERE but online. The neckbeards knew the delivery schedules at local Walmarts and so on. They also had arrangements with store staff, lucrative for both.
It wasn't really until a few months after President Trump was elected that the prices came down, and they came WAY down.
But now, the same people are doing the same thing in spades. At the same time, there is a huge demand due to the sale of millions of new firearms to people who've never owned firearms. They have no ammo at all, and need to get some stock, and some for practice.
At the same time, you have panicked preppers who are laying in massive stockpiles assuming ammo will be the new currency when the crash happens. No one really has plans to use 100,000 rounds or more of anything, but they have mounds of it "just in case".
I keep hearing it's the primers. So after all the panic buying from virus Boogaloo folks began to buy ammo en masse. So there's bullets, shells, but no primers or powder
No, primers are just the bottleneck for reloaders. You can get them, but they ain’t cheap. Other components aren’t either. Everything is high right now.
Yeah, I think killing him with the butt of his gun allowed him to kill the attacker with more feeling than just by shooting him. The veteran may have also wanted to avoid a mess to clean up and holes in his wall.
I know your just being silly. In NY they have already done that. If you put an adjustable stock onto any semi-automatic rifle (w/o pinning it in place), it becomes an "assault rifle" and a felony if you're caught with it.
They will forever fight for this country. My dad says it at times. He's an old Vietnam Vet. He was USAF in a TAC unit "in the boonies for 18 months" stained with the Army. He hate the rain and Commies.
Have plenty of .45 acp shells. Fuck wheeling a shotgun around in a house. Not getting close enough to hit them with it either so you get what comes out the other end.
I started to reload. My uncle gave me a reloader when I was a kid but I never knew how to use it until now, 18 years later. I've got a nice pile of 7.62x39 all ready to go. And they fire real well, 123 grain, starlite brass.
I stocked up on 9mm in 2019 right before I bought my PPQ M2 in April of 2020. I cannot believe the price of 9mm right now. I saw 5.7mm going for cheaper than 9mm.
Trust the science! “Elemental Sulphur.... charcoal.... Amonium nitrate (salt Peter)...... mix mix mix... boom!... you have Black powder.”
Brass/casings, primers, fishing weights(lead) ...
reloader kits.
We need to learn to do it ourselves, ORRRRRR....
HEY TEXAS, MISSOURI, FLORIDA.... WE NEED SAFE HARBOR WEAPON AND AMMUNITION PLANTS. DIRECT LEAD MANUFACTURERS AND MINING, POWDER PLANTS, and STEEL PRODUCTION. LETS MAKE IT HAPPEN!!!!
What ever works... 16oz claw hammer is great for up close and personal. Don’t have to register yet and never runs out of ammo. Although, I do like the feel of the recoil of a .40 P229.
badass. One less person to make victims out of honest people.
I celebrate when one is taken out.
I'm just sorry this dude had to do so in such a personal and gruesome manner. Sucks he is probably safer from persecution by smashing a dude's skull in than by pulling the trigger on a home invader these days.
I used to work part time at a gun store. I used to sell 50 rd boxes of 9mm for $11.95. 5.56 was $8.99 for 20. Now both are above a dollar a round and it's disgusting.
I never thought I'd see the day when 7.62 x 39 was actually cheaper than 22lr...
99 percent of 7.62x39 is imported from russia and Joe Biden could eliminate it with a stroke of a pen.
Just something to consider.
The demand would be great enough to manufacture domestically
But thanks to our convoluted labor laws, etc. it'd never be close to as cheap
I saw this coming in May of last year and bought a SKS
I think that your concept of price for SKSs is all pre-Ban, c. 1990s. Back then you could get an SKS for around 100 bucks, but, at least since Obama, $300 has been the minimum.
Now, even a Mosin Nagant costs $180 or more. That was about 5 years ago, when I was pricing them.
Really? How much is one on average? I've never looked into one, Aside from a few pistols and revolvers, I only have an AR and a Ruger 5.56 but I'd like to get something in 7.62..
SKSs look to be about a grand. Don’t know how that’s cheap.
Do it!!!! Love the 7.62, for a battle rifle round, it’s a damn shoulder cannon.
I got me a Polish AK and still haven't gotten around to fixing the stiff as hell safety on it...
Soviet rifle does not need safety comrade.
They had an AK too, which I almost bought instead. It was a little more beat up though. That and I had concerns about everything thats happened up to this point, and 30 rnd mags being banned.
I remember a friend telling me how he knew some journalist's story of the war in Nicaragua was bullshit. There's a passage where the journalist describes hearing the sound of some Nicaraguans all turn the safeties off their guns simultaneously.
No Nicaraguan EVER used a safety.
Ruger mini 30. Or 14 . and ak are good for the cheap ammo.
Mini 30 has issues with steel cased ammo it seems.
Just keep that in mind, the brass 762x39 is about 1$ per round right now as well.
Thanks. 14 runs it perfect.
Yup. I bought a case of 1000 rounds cheaper than half as much in 9mm.
Or the day where 556 is more expensive than 10mm
Ca pede here. Wait you can find 22lr???
I can find it, it's just expensive. So I buy .22 colibri because noone uses it because it only cycles in manually cycled guns.
I really worry all that ammo comes with such a hefty price tag that people will be reluctant to ever use it. I can't imagine how much unused ammo is going to go to waste neatly stacked in their boxes. Now if only there was a use for millions of rounds of ammo...
That’s stored neatly for us to find as we wonder the wasteland.
i like where your head is at, pede!
I got into guns late, and part of me is glad because I don't know the difference. I mean it's just always been expensive to me. I mean it doesn't mean it shouldn't be cheaper but I don't have the memories of when I could buy gun ammo iat nice low prices So I don't feel like anybody's rubbing my nose and anything.
^^^^Not a doomer^^^^
I like the way you think. Some people would still dwell on it
What's the cause of the increase?
world government / full blown in your face tyranny
Supply and demand.
People pay higher than retail from scalpers. This rewards scalpers for ripping off everyone. Scalpers continue to buy all they can and resale at inflated prices. This keeps the price high and the availability low.
That went on for 2-3 years under Obama, primarily with 22LR. It wasn't available ANYWHERE but online. The neckbeards knew the delivery schedules at local Walmarts and so on. They also had arrangements with store staff, lucrative for both.
It wasn't really until a few months after President Trump was elected that the prices came down, and they came WAY down.
But now, the same people are doing the same thing in spades. At the same time, there is a huge demand due to the sale of millions of new firearms to people who've never owned firearms. They have no ammo at all, and need to get some stock, and some for practice.
At the same time, you have panicked preppers who are laying in massive stockpiles assuming ammo will be the new currency when the crash happens. No one really has plans to use 100,000 rounds or more of anything, but they have mounds of it "just in case".
I completely agree. I’m ready for salad days 2.0. People will sell ammo cheap when they don’t need it anymore. I’m out of 45, I’m ready!!
Speak for yourself.
I keep hearing it's the primers. So after all the panic buying from virus Boogaloo folks began to buy ammo en masse. So there's bullets, shells, but no primers or powder
No, primers are just the bottleneck for reloaders. You can get them, but they ain’t cheap. Other components aren’t either. Everything is high right now.
Yup.
My sister keeps asking me to take her husband out to go shoot at the range.
I'm like.... "Have you seen the price of ammo these days?"
Laughs in reloading
When someone attacks your wife, it becomes far too personal, to simply shoot them.
Taking your pocket knife and gutting him like a trout is cheaper.
That’s a bit too personal. I don’t want to know them that well. Bashing their skill into fragments seems more pro.
But the end result may not be as tasty. Or maybe it is.
Yeah, I think killing him with the butt of his gun allowed him to kill the attacker with more feeling than just by shooting him. The veteran may have also wanted to avoid a mess to clean up and holes in his wall.
Yeah. It's called overkill. Probably smashed his head in good.
We must regulate dangerous assault butts!
After a night of Mexican food, I'd get thrown into jail.
I know your just being silly. In NY they have already done that. If you put an adjustable stock onto any semi-automatic rifle (w/o pinning it in place), it becomes an "assault rifle" and a felony if you're caught with it.
Same with dumbfuck commiefornia
Probably didnt want to waste ammo.
What a good man and husband!
Imagine being a home intruder and you get beaten to death by a lil old man, hahaha
Beaten to death by a gun.
No, a little old man. The gun didn't beat anyone.
I sometimes wonder when the article doesn't mention the race of the person to incite more bs, if its just some crackhead white soyboy
If it’s excluded 9/10 it’s not white.
think though. if it were any other color they would include it to fan the flames of hatred and violence. and paint the person as racist, of course.
which means if the race is not reported, its actually 9/10 white, therefor not interesting to the news.
Glad I invested in LEAD when the guys on TV were telling me to buy GOLD!
Rule #1 for criminals. Don't fuck with old vets. They come from a bread trained in 101 ways to kill you. When the training kicks in, you're fucked.
I love those dough boys.
They will forever fight for this country. My dad says it at times. He's an old Vietnam Vet. He was USAF in a TAC unit "in the boonies for 18 months" stained with the Army. He hate the rain and Commies.
Remove those Limbsaver recoil pads frenz, ammo is over a dollar per round.
Time to use that neglected bayonet lug as well
I have a couple of katanas and Some various swords for hand to hand battles. Also a very long bayonet.
You could always go with the EK Archery RX Adder Automatic SELF Loading Repeating Crossbow as a backup.
But then you gotta go collect your bolts or learn to MAke them
oh? that sounds really cool, got a link for me by chance? (I can do it myself, I know, just asking to be courteous and start a conversation)
Well, if they cannot take your guns, they will take your ammo to make you ineffective.
That's why I have a bow and a crossbow in addition
I really need one of those.
My dad has a crossbow- he’s jealous of my guns and I’m jealous of his bow. Guess life is funny that way.
You gotta do what you gotta do.
And another thug bites the dust.
This is the way.
Have plenty of .45 acp shells. Fuck wheeling a shotgun around in a house. Not getting close enough to hit them with it either so you get what comes out the other end.
I’m sitting on like $5k of ammo across 4 calibers and it’s still not enough to let me go to the range.
gotta practice somehow to stay fresh
Try Nerf.
This story has been on here for 2 weeks, why is it hot now? Wtf
He wasn’t short on ammo, he was savoring the kill.
Saving his bullets for commies
Conservatives conserving.
This is my nominee for the John Wayne dude of the year award.
I started to reload. My uncle gave me a reloader when I was a kid but I never knew how to use it until now, 18 years later. I've got a nice pile of 7.62x39 all ready to go. And they fire real well, 123 grain, starlite brass.
I stocked up on 9mm in 2019 right before I bought my PPQ M2 in April of 2020. I cannot believe the price of 9mm right now. I saw 5.7mm going for cheaper than 9mm.
Trust the science! “Elemental Sulphur.... charcoal.... Amonium nitrate (salt Peter)...... mix mix mix... boom!... you have Black powder.” Brass/casings, primers, fishing weights(lead) ... reloader kits. We need to learn to do it ourselves, ORRRRRR.... HEY TEXAS, MISSOURI, FLORIDA.... WE NEED SAFE HARBOR WEAPON AND AMMUNITION PLANTS. DIRECT LEAD MANUFACTURERS AND MINING, POWDER PLANTS, and STEEL PRODUCTION. LETS MAKE IT HAPPEN!!!!
Melee finishers have a 300% XP bonus.
Most ar15s arent great with cheap steel case ammo. And most ranges dont allow it =(
What ever works... 16oz claw hammer is great for up close and personal. Don’t have to register yet and never runs out of ammo. Although, I do like the feel of the recoil of a .40 P229.
Kathy Bates as Annie Wilkes in "Misery", would agree.
someone introduce this badass to dick levine.
The moment the Left first began planning "Butt Control..."
I can still get shotgun ammo, that’s not a problem. But I get the joke.
Death by gun without shots fired: Achievement unlocked.
Buying ammunition was my best financial decision I've made over the last few years. My 'investments' have more than doubled in value.
But now I can't shoot anymore because its too expensive to replace it all. :(
Plan "B"uttstock
Conserve those ammos. You are gonna need them to commies.
I'm dealing nickel bags of 9mm and .45 on the corner of 6th and Broadway if you're jonesin'.
somebody breaks into my house, they are getting a face full of lead or a knife straight to the throat. maybe both
Yeah but the mess.
Does the article even mention ammo shortage or is the conclusion you've come to by the article headline?
I’m sitting on like $5k of ammo across 4 calibers and it’s still not enough to let me go to the range.
badass. One less person to make victims out of honest people.
I celebrate when one is taken out.
I'm just sorry this dude had to do so in such a personal and gruesome manner. Sucks he is probably safer from persecution by smashing a dude's skull in than by pulling the trigger on a home invader these days.
Goddan, Toyohisa!
Good for him! Maybe he just thought the intruder wasn't worth a bullet in todays economy, who am I to tell this man how to operate his home?
I hope all the damages suffered by him and his wife were minimal.
It would be FL wouldn't it...
No, you're right. Just let the intruder keep attacking your wife. Maybe jack him off while you're at it. Get the fuck out of here.
A person who wants his and his loved ones lives preserved.
me! i'll put a blank canvas down and pass it off as a pollock to buy more ammo!