Nimrod71
Senior Member
I road by the store yesterday and the parking lot was nearly full of trucks, 11 by count. I stopped in to see if they were going to be open today and if there was anything left to sale. It had been two weeks since I was there and I was told to be at work by 9 a.m. for a full day. When I arrived today I walked through and checked the inventory for new arrivals and what was left from two weeks ago. The first thing i noticed was all the empty ammo shelves. The stacks of 9 mm, 40 S & W,, 38 Spc., 357 mag, 380, 12 ga. buckshot, 5.56/223 and 7.62X39 were gone. What ammo we had left was being limited to one box per customer or two boxes with a gun purchase. I ask the owner if more ammo was coming and he gave me the following answer. Twenty thousand rounds had been order through a number of distributors, the problem is they do not know when they can deliver. He said they all told him the same story, they were in contact with the major manufactures and were told production was been held up for lack of components. Ammo components are just like most other things we use here in the USA, they have been out sourced and are being manufactured in foreign countries and between shipping problems and the virus they don't have the materials they need to supply the demand.
He said this also included shotgun shells. My advice is make sure you have enough shells to last through your hunting season, don't wait for sales, I don't believe there will be many.
For gun sales the AR's were continuing to fly. Two weeks ago our price range ran from $600 to $1,800 on AR's. All the lower price rifles are gone, the lowest now is $900.
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Handgun sales were brisk today. I sold more hand guns today than I have ever sold in a single day. The customers today didn't have to be sold, for that matter most didn't even ask questions, they just walked in pointed to a gun and said I want that one and a box of ammo. We had five salesmen working today and at times all were busy writing up gun sales.
The question is how long will this go on, or how long can it go on? This is not just happening in rural Georgia it is happening all over the U. S.
He said this also included shotgun shells. My advice is make sure you have enough shells to last through your hunting season, don't wait for sales, I don't believe there will be many.
For gun sales the AR's were continuing to fly. Two weeks ago our price range ran from $600 to $1,800 on AR's. All the lower price rifles are gone, the lowest now is $900.
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Handgun sales were brisk today. I sold more hand guns today than I have ever sold in a single day. The customers today didn't have to be sold, for that matter most didn't even ask questions, they just walked in pointed to a gun and said I want that one and a box of ammo. We had five salesmen working today and at times all were busy writing up gun sales.
The question is how long will this go on, or how long can it go on? This is not just happening in rural Georgia it is happening all over the U. S.
