Ed Huntress wrote:

On Sun, 14 Apr 2013 07:27:52 -0500, F. George McDuffee
wrote:

On Sat, 13 Apr 2013 21:34:25 -0700, Gunner Asch
wrote:

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Fascinating indeed. So if they are not buying all that ammo and
stock piling it...where the hell is it?
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Good question.

I think that Gunner is asking about where all the ammo is *now*.

First, the ammo that DHS is contracting for hasn't been manufactured
yet.

Sceond, the ammo that's not on the shelves is being hoarded by
paranoid gun nutz from sea to shining sea.

I spoke with one of the plant managers at Remington's Arkansas plant
about two weeks ago. She said they're running three shifts, making
ammo like never before. And, as far as she's heard, the wholesalers
are not sitting on it. It's all going to retail, where gun nutz are
buying it up as fast as it hits the shelves. Some retailers aren't
getting any of it. That appears to be a matter of how the wholesale
distributors are rationing it to certain retailers.

Actually, pretty much all of the current shortage is due to new first
time gun owners who have been pushed off the fence by the attacks from
the rabid anti-gun minority and are now joining the ranks of the pro-gun
majority. No long time gun owners I know have been buying anything
recently and indeed some have been selling some surplus for a profit.