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ILoveCats:
In case you haven't seen it, here's an interesting post from a Nebraska Cabela's employee on the Ruger Forum.

http://rugerforum.net/ammo-dump/73630-thoughts-ammo-shortage-one-trenches.html

Nice to see a rational explanation from someone in the trenches, to counter the "da gubmint is buyin up all da ammo" conspiracy theorists. 

Lmbass14:
Nice article.

zofoman:
Yes, it was well written.   But, there will be those that will not accept the simple supply economics explanation.  I've gotten similar responses on separate occasions from employees at Scheels in Lincoln...their thoughts were that by May we might begin to see some relief and by June it should be even better.  At the Event Center gun show in Lincoln, one of the vendors I talked to said he & his partner are online sellers and they are stuck in the back order situation...whoever their distributor(s) is told them to be patient...their orders will be filled, just not sure when.

A-FIXER:
Slavo apparently didn’t get the memo, however, from Hornady Manufacturing Company, the largest independent producer of bullets in the world. On February 12, the company issued a short statement on availability and provided some responses to rumors floating around the Internet:

 


The current political climate has caused extremely high demand on all shooting industry products, including ours. Empty retail shelves, long back orders, and exaggerated price increases on online auction sites — all fueled by rumors and conjecture — have amplified concerns about the availability of ammunition and firearms-related items.
 
If the information you hear doesn’t originate from Hornady Manufacturing, don’t believe it.
 
Here are some of rumors we’ve heard, and questions we’ve received:
 
•Have you stopped production, or has the government forced you to stop?
 
?Not at all.
 
•Did you stop selling bullets so you could only make loaded ammunition?
 
?Absolutely not.
 
•Since we can’t find your product you must be selling it all to the government.
 
?Nope, less than 5% of our sales are to government entities.
 
•Why can’t you make more? Ramp up production? Turn on all the machines?
 
? We’ve been steadily growing our production for a long time, especially the last five years. We’ve added presses, lathes, CNC equipment, people and space. Many popular items are produced 24 hours a day.
 
Several hundred Hornady employees work overtime every week to produce as much as safely possible. If there is any question about that — please take a tour of the factory. You’ll be amazed at what you see.
 
We are producing as much as we can; much more than last year, which was a lot more than the year before, etc. No one wants to ship more during this time than we do.
 
We appreciate everyone’s understanding and patience. We don’t know when the situation will improve, so please bear with us a little longer. And remember, when it comes to Hornady Manufacturing, if you don’t hear it from us, please don’t believe it.
 
This isn’t the first time that demand for ammunition has outstripped supply. Following the election of President Obama in 2008, there was an almost immediate shortage of small arms ammunition but by September 2011, ammunition supplies for the most popular calibers — .45 ACP and .40 S&W — were back to normal.
 
Here is a link to the full read.....

http://www.infowars.com/ammo-shortages-more-than-simple-supply-and-demand/

GreyGeek:

--- Quote from: A-FIXER on March 10, 2013, 11:15:42 AM --- Following the election of President Obama in 2008, there was an almost immediate shortage of small arms ammunition but by September 2011,
--- End quote ---

Oh, great.   Three years, September of 2015, before supplies are back to  normal?    But,  back then there wasn't a massive gun ban campaign by the Left taking place.  AND,  the DHS didn't have nearly a 2 BILLION round order for 9mm and .40 ammo outstanding, with  MORE orders to follow, and over spending wasn't as high or the Dollar as low as they are now.   A perfect storm for a  POTUS with dreams of dictatorial powers declaring an emergency and suspending parts  or all of the Constitution which, by the way, has been partially suspended in a zone 100 miles wide on the entire boarder of our country, putting 1/3rd of all Americans outside their full Constitutional Rights.

However, given the terms of a National Security Letter, who knows what the government has authorized arms manufacturers to say when asked by the public?   Also, nearly 2 BILLION rounds, with more to come, is a HUGE quantity.  When I checked that gov P.O. for the 2,700 "Personal Defense Weapons", a.k.a. AR-15's, I noticed that they had listed 132 ammo makers that had "permission" to submit bids, and several of them were foreign.  I'm going back to check that list.


On the good side, for us, the losses of 2nd Amendment rights in Colorado, Illinois and New York, and other states controlled by the  Far Left, will mean that supplies that would have been purchased by their law abiding citizens will now be purchased by law abiding citizens in FREE states, like Nebraska.

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