It's quite a bit better than it was.
Mr. Rat, I have a writ here says you're to stop eating Chin Lee's cornmeal forthwith. Now it's a rat writ, writ for a rat, and this is lawful service of the same.
True Grit
It's quite a bit better than it was.
Mr. Rat, I have a writ here says you're to stop eating Chin Lee's cornmeal forthwith. Now it's a rat writ, writ for a rat, and this is lawful service of the same.
True Grit
Well, it's the hoarding that's responsible. 10% of the ammo buyers are buying up 95% of the ammo. Some hoping to maybe resell later and make a killing, others, because they have alot of extra money, are buying it for the future, who knows. The local Academy spoting goods mgr. told me they sold many a case of ammo that he started finding for sale in some local pawn shops.
I almost choked to death while eating supper last night.
I was perusing the latest flyer from Cheaper Than Dirt, and this caught my eye: Federal American Eagle ball- that's plain vanilla, 9mm practice 115 FMJ ammunition, comparable to the WWB or UMC you find at Wally World- for $29.95 per box of 50.
That's beyond profiteering; that's insane.
I think that the reasons have to do with the shrieking hysteria over the president's election. The right wing convinced themselves that he was going to seize all guns in America, and turn the nation into a communist dictatorship. The internet propaganda went into a blood frenzy and said that a catastrophe of End Of The World proportions was imminent. Well all the apostles of said propaganda ran out and started buying guns and ammo like it was well, going out of style, and prices shot up. In order to keep up with demand the manufacturers started producing ammo and firearms like wildfire.
The problem was that just as they ramped up production and priced peaked, the job market finally began to pay the price for our 30-year financial deregulation party, and people started to lose their jobs. People out of work means they were selling their guns and ammo to meet their mortgages, and others who would be buying from retailers were instead, like me, buying at basement prices from the unfortunates now out of work.
The result of all this is that the manufacturers and retailers are now left with surplus inventory, and they're trying to get rid of it any way they can and still make money. We are seeing that instability now with feasts and famines.
The irony is that the very people responsible for the manufacturers and retailers disaster are us, the gun lovers who drove them into this corner then abandoned them. Shouldn't have drunk that kool-aid if you ask me.
However, like you, I will never patronize them again. In fact, I think I'll call them and tell them to quit sending their rag to clutter up my mail box... and why.