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April 27th, 2009 at 9:35 am
When I picked up my Kel-Tec, I bought a box of 25 SD rounds for $28.
It was the only box left.
April 27th, 2009 at 11:11 am
My dad has been agonizing over the lack of .380 for his CCW pistol. Fortunately, like all retired coppers, he has a network of friends in the firearms business and managed to pick up six boxes of .380. You’d think he won the lottery the way he was holding the boxes.
April 27th, 2009 at 11:21 am
Gack.
April 27th, 2009 at 11:44 am
If I tried price gouging on a piece of plywood before a hurricane, I’d be arrested.
Why are the ammo retailers allowed to price gouge on ammo in the face of predicted legislative storms?
I can’t say the sellers should not sell at maximized prices to those who are needy/foolish enough to pay such prices, and I have enough,bought during the years of plenty, for resupply of at least a few squads of the Indian Army (the People’s Army I won’t support), but when this price bubble collapses there will be some folks with expensive ammo sitting in their closets.
I wonder if they will shoot the expensive stuff first, or let it age like a fine wine, while shooting the less expensive more recent ammo.
April 27th, 2009 at 11:58 am
Hmmm.
Perhaps the problem can be attributed to people engaged in speculation? It’s about the only commodity that’s actually increasing in price right now.
April 27th, 2009 at 1:36 pm
I’ve seen in a few different places that the problem with 380 is that it is usually made on the same production lines that make 9mm. Unfortunately, they only make the stuff like once or twice a year and they just make enough to last until the next time they whip up a big old batch of it. For one thing, this isn’t the time to be making a big inventory of something that you expect to have sitting on the shelf.
The big factor is that the demand for 9mm is so high that the manufacturers don’t want to take the downtime necessary to switch over to making a round with less overall demand.
Yes, I’d say the ratio of demand to supply is actually higher for 380, but the overall demand for 9mm is just so much higher that they want to keep cranking that out as fast as they can.
April 27th, 2009 at 8:44 pm
It’s supply/demand, not “gouging”. Demand is high, supply is low, so price is thru the roof.
If you think someone should be arrested, you need to go back to high school economics, sorry.