Here's a little theory, since no one else has given any of this much thought. There were tons of firearm sales, ammo sales, during obama; many of us went from hunting rifles to AR style; ammo was more or less readily available, except for 22 LR. During the last years of obama, lots of 223/5.56 was around, much from Korea and Russia, some from US manf. Enter DJT. In 2017, DJT relaxed many of the restrictions. 22 became readily available (from everywhere). Imports from eastern bloc skyrocketed, primarily NATO calibers. All of it was easy to find in bulk (as in barrels full), 7.62x51 (308 mil) got very cheap (comparatively), as in <#300/500 rnd, 5.56 green readily available, 9mm and so on. Sept 2017 was declared "Preparedness Month", AR style 308 prices dropped by half, 5.56 dropped by $200. 80% lowers became more available, and the Polymer80 was selling like crazy; uppers got bought by the millions. This lasted three years.
Enter the kung fu flu, the final stage of attempted takeover. Lockdowns. Masks. Preparing for the final commie push to take the US. SUDDENLY, and I DO mean SUDDENLY, rifles are in shorter supply, and ammo drops out of sight altogether, within a few weeks. DO NOT tell me that was not done on purpose. Even during the previous MANY runs on guns/ammo, there was NEVER this kind of shortage.
WHY? I think that the ammo was pulled so the gangs of antifa/blm or whatever that didn't prepare were not able to acquire their needed stuff. Face it, those creeps simply don't have the mental capacity to be ready. We were told (if we didn't already know) that we needed to do the prep years beforehand, and many of us did. Some of us (like me, I've been waiting for this crap to go down for decades) said, 'Well, shit, DJT says do it, so I will.' and we went lunatic, or so some people think. But the commies don't have the sense to do that.
Now, they can't. And WE have the guns and ammo, not them.
Think about it.
Patriot, I noticed the same with price and availability that you listed. Even seen sales, and early on with the Pandemic, they even had some sales as they feared they would lose business, but within a week or two, they went full price, when they caught on, people were buying. I had a friend wanted to buy the same rifle I have, and I bought it on the sale, and he hesitated, but ended up paying about 300 dollars more as the sale was gone. Told me I got mine at a great price. That's why I did not wait. I have to admit I was surprised they would have a sale as I was hearing people are buying more firearms during that same time period.
When I retired from the SD, I still stuck with Gold Dot that I carried when I was with the SD, pay a little more, but great and proven ammo for decades.
as you pointed out, I have never seen these type of shortages in the past, and even told friends and family this during this time period, there were people who told me they never thought they would ever need to buy a firearm called me and told me they had. Basically I had given up that they would buy one, and so many surprises and changes of peoples attitudes was amazing to witness also.
Bottom line is, the only thing that has kept them from taking over years ago is the fact we the people are armed.
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