Pandemic driving gun, ammo sales, police and
firearm instructors being left high and dry
BizPac Review,
by
Jon Dougherty
Original Article
Posted By: ladydawgfan,
8/2/2021 8:57:30 PM
Steadily increasing gun sales across the country as the COVID-19 pandemic lingered and then reignited in recent weeks amid the spread of the new Delta variant continue to cause sustained shortages of ammunition, which is impacting new gun owners, law enforcement agencies, and firearms instructors.
Gun sales, especially for first-time buyers, soared as the pandemic stretched for months last year but also as riots and criminal violence rose dramatically as well, all of which placed strains on U.S. ammunition makers who struggled to keep up.
Sales appeared to surge again after Joe Biden won the presidency and gun-control-pushing Democrats took over Congress, putting ammo makers even further behind.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Italiano 8/2/2021 9:06:55 PM (No. 866040)
The "pandemic" has nothing to do with it.
Saps.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Strike3 8/2/2021 9:28:27 PM (No. 866052)
The good news is that there are many millions of well-stocked up gun owners out here to keep the communists from doing anything major to America. The Biden administration is handcuffed by We the People, as the founders intended. Don't push us.
16 people like this.
Reply 3 - Posted by:
ROLFNader 8/2/2021 9:29:02 PM (No. 866053)
Gosh! If I had known that this was going to happen , I wouldn't have use all of mine up.
5 people like this.
Thank you, #1. Pandemic, shmandemic, Jon. Try antifa, blm, election fraud, bail elimination, soros-backed DA's, cops leaving the force, unchecked illegal immigration...
19 people like this.
Reply 5 - Posted by:
Ribicon 8/2/2021 9:58:25 PM (No. 866072)
The criminals seem to have no problem finding ammo. Thanks to them and lax law enforcement, the streets in Marxist zones run red with blood, just the way they like it.
8 people like this.
Reply 6 - Posted by:
panther361 8/2/2021 10:00:49 PM (No. 866074)
What concerns me is gun owners must stay proficient and accuracy needs to be maintained. New gun owners need to train seriuosly and often. I'd like to see the books on ammo made vs ammo expended. It would be a huge undertaking but at least we could detect some possible funny business. Long ago when the "gun grabbers" decided to take action, but learned it to be near impossible, they did indicate taking the route of cutting ammunition supplies. With accurate sources of news dwindling, things will get a bit worrisome.
8 people like this.
Reply 7 - Posted by:
voxpopuli 8/2/2021 10:51:49 PM (No. 866124)
there are no police left in Mogadapolis/St Hmong anyway..
better to have it in the hands
of those that CAN defend themselves
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I roll my own #6, to keep in good practice on a variety of calibers. Powder and primers have been pretty tough to get at decent prices lately, but I have been stockpiling for years after Sparklefarts caused this same ridiculous panic.
Ammo is out there, but the prices are still far more expensive than they should be. Back in about 2013, you couldn't find things like M855, XM193 or M80 at all. You can find it today, but the PPR is still pretty obnoxious.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
mc squared 8/2/2021 10:57:23 PM (No. 866128)
What happened to the billions of rounds Obama bought for all the Letter Agencies years ago? That was the first ammo shortage as it all went to the EPA, Dept of ED, Agriculture, etc, etc.
We could buy ammo again if we'd all wear masks.
5 people like this.
Reply 10 - Posted by:
Geoman 8/2/2021 11:32:30 PM (No. 866147)
I taught combat handgun shooting to various LEO tactical units, including a course for Federal Air Marshals in the late 90s and early 2000s. Shooting within a crowded, aluminum-titanium tube takes a high degree of firearms proficiency and even a higher degree of decision making ability. While safety is always paramount, for proficiency with a handgun in the 90 percentile, around 1,000 rounds per month expended downrange in well designed and supervised training drills is a fairly well established norm. To get up to the 99 percentile (or in the top 1 percent of handgun shooters), that number goes to around 1,000+ rounds per week. Barrels must be inspected and replaced periodically with that volume of live fire training, so it is expensive and labor intensive to attain and maintain a high level of combat proficiency and only a handful of special operations and LEO units be they local, state, or federal are able to claim that. Given the current ammunition demand, particularly for handgun ammo, it is very difficult for new shooters to become modestly proficient; however, there are many dry-fire techniques that will help improve many of the fundamental elements of shooting, except for recoil management but with dry firing one must ensure that they are not damaging the firing pin, which is more likely with rim fire than with center fire handguns. While not essential, snap caps or dummy rounds can reduce the risk of damage during dry firing exercises. A dummy round or two should also be mixed in with a magazine of live rounds in training to ensure that the shooter is not anticipating the recoil and is good practice to get in the habit of maintaining front sight concentration and to drive home the Tap-Rack-Bang sequence when one encounters a fail to fire or fail to eject in an auto loader.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
DVC 8/3/2021 12:01:00 AM (No. 866166)
#1 nails it.
Even reloading, I can't replace expended primers and powder any time soon, limiting my practice ammo expenditures. Gotta make what I have last a while.
And all that #10 says is right on....but darned little titanium in the skins of airliners, if any. And actually, a handful of punctures in the skin won't depressurize the cabin, but there are some things that won't react well to bullets, in addition to the passengers and crew.
3 people like this.
Reply 12 - Posted by:
chumley 8/3/2021 12:09:07 AM (No. 866174)
Last fall a neighbor came over and said he wanted to go hunting with his grandson but they could find no .30-30 anywhere, at any price. I was able to fix him up. Being a hoarder isn't always bad.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Italiano 8/3/2021 10:08:57 AM (No. 866484)
"A dummy round or two should also be mixed in with a magazine of live rounds in training to ensure that the shooter is not anticipating the recoil and is good practice to get in the habit of maintaining front sight concentration."
Absolutely right. I used that procedure with my S&W 629 .44 and could not believe how bad I was.
Sadly, I still am.
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