They have to. With the way things are right now, if they put 30 boxes on the shelf (if they even get that lucky to have that many), one customer will come in and buy probably half of it; maybe even all of it. One or two people get a lot of ammo and they screw over everyone else. It's like toilet paper of the gun industry. Most grocery stores last year had to limit the number of packs of toilet paper customers could buy so that their inventory lasted longer and spread throughout many customers rather than one jerkoff buying everything.
I member too! Many years ago a good buddy told me that a gun “enthusiast” should have 10,000 rounds for EVERY caliber gun they own. I always thought, someday... if I could ever afford it.
@@PerfectPrinceX1 It's not an opinion that the right to bear arms shall not be infringed. It literally says "shall not be infringed". Everything Colion speaks is facts and he has evidence to back it up.
@@cacsoccer101 Also the cost of making the goods goes up. Wage increases, more workers, taxes are going up, material costs are going up, price of new equipment and maintenance is going up etc.
@@rogerwilco99 Strange cause one of my local gun shops, Triple J Armory, has plenty of handguns and long guns. Ammo not so much. Also, I use Gunbroker.com and they have plenty of guns & ammo, so I get a little confused when people say they can’t find one or the other.
Thats the plan. Restrict the ammo, kill the stores, consolidate into only megacorps who dance to govt music.... Kinda like how BASS PRO AND CABELA'S just offered up lists of customers who bought polymer 80's. Ill never shop with them again.
@@mikebolton3816 Exactly. We already saw for the last year that they hate small businesses and want them all gone. Killing small gun stores is like double dipping as far as tyrants are concerned.
My LGS laid off everyone but the owner and his manager/wife, and cut their operating hours. I almost applied for a job there in 2019. Glad I didn't, now.
Support universal basic income, rather than big industry bailouts. That’s the way to reverse this path on which we’re headed. The people need the power, not mega corporations and government.
Airsoft just isnt the same. Not only is it weird, but from what I have noticed, the culture is just a shame. This is based on the airsoft competition videos Ive seen, so I could have a minute perspective on it. Though there are lots of airsofters pretending to be soldiers that put their veterans to shame.
I’m just glad I was able to find and buy .223 and 5.56 nato rounds very scarce online atm I was able to pickup about 400 rounds of both online for a premium of course but well worth it my ar has 7x30 round clips now and pops has 3x30 so we are ready for them to push this “agenda” that we the people don’t want.
@@bigmonkeyhead2992 airsofts fun depending on where you’re located. I’m on the west coast and I’ve been playing since 2013. It’s a blast, and obviously there’s always going to be those people who ruin it. But comparing my local paintball community to my air soft community I’d say paintball is as toxic as a MW2 multiplayer lobby. People cheating, and grown men cursing out children... it’s wild. Most people on airsoft don’t take themselves to seriously, and a lot of veterans participate in games and events. Hell, a lot of the people that own airsoft fields out in my area are veterans. So I’d give it a chance, you’d never know.
I really turned 18 at the worst time ever. I got lumped in with the 2020 panic buyers. I was going to buy a gun when I turned 18 regardless, now it's just harder to shoot.
I also got stuck during the 9/11 shortage, however don't look at it as you can't shoot, look it as an opportunity to learn new skills. Learn how to make primers and powder, and cast bullets. Learn home gunsmithing you can make your own gun fairly easily, especially now that 3D printers are only ~$100 and you can use those to make the frames pretty easy. When you learn how to make things yourself you will never be dependent on the supply.
@@DaveSmith-cp5kj Kinda reckless telling an 18yo with zero experience to build his first gun though. There's no shortage of guns, just ammo. He'd be a hundred times better off buying a gun and learning how it works and how the principles apply when building his first home built.
I think that’s exactly what some people want.... People not shooting often anymore because ammo is so dang expensive. If you can’t ban guns try to kill people’s interest in guns by making ammo expensive..
@@sortedevaras Kinda blows my mind; I miraculously found a LGS with .45ACP and paid damn near 45$ for it. I remember two or three years ago, the same amount would have only sold for about 15.50$. Sad day.
You think... Im from canada, trudeau BANNED me from ever shooting my ar15 forever. Now my ar15 are just a decoration in my safe. Then all my handguns can ONLY be used on a shooting range, and they have been closed since the begening of covid. So... Tell me how much you cant go shoot anywhere.
@@jonkR96 I don't either, I hand load. Primers and powder will eventually become an issue. I used to go to the range 3+ times a month had to cut back the trips and volume of ammo we expend.
@@Tusk_Tact I was referring to pawn shops and those online places that sell firearms,ammo,components and accessories in private sales. I saw a 500 round box 5.7x28 LE for $799.00 that's just crazy but people are paying it. I understand supply and demand.
I like how level headed and straight forward both of you were. I also love that he's not willing to compromise on quality and is trying to take care of everybody. The economy, country, community and so on have a lot of pieces moving in intricate ways.
hiring more people is not this issue, they don't have the manufacturing capabilities to keep up. Let's say they build a new building just to increase production, that takes a lot of time to build. Find, a location to build or expand, permits, contractor bidding, contractor availability, extra safety precautions due to covid during the build, tool install, QC, train workers. And that's just part of it. Will it be beneficial for them to expand long term or is this just a temporary situation.
You can train almost everything except recoil control...let’s keep encouraging everyone to practice carrying and drawing and dry fire every time they see an empty shelf, send a message your representatives to object to all gun controls and stop proposing them and fine and jail ATF for enforcing under color of law 1934 National Firearms Act. When the bad actors get put in their place the ammo will too.
Only a civil war will make change... Career politicians are the worst because they never worked hard a day in their life, look down on us like bottomfeeders! They dont care anything about the people.
@@garyallen9840 wrong, even in the worst case civil war we still need to replace what’s broken, we just need enough people doing what needs to be done to change what we have now. Eliminating career politicians is a good start and we start by voting them all out with people that campaign on putting term limits in place.
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Smh I remember paying $98 for a box 500 rounds of 9mm Ammo from LAX Ammo before this pandemic now a box of 500 rounds of 9mm Ammo from other sources are selling for almost $1000 It’s disgusting 🤮
I miss the good old days. Just a few years ago, I remember going to a gun shop, and seeing boxes of ammo all around me. They even had buckets of 9mm Remington ammo piled on the showroom floor. And you could just grab anything you wanted and take it to the register. Boy, how things have changed. If only I would have known, I would have spent all of 2019 stockpiling 9mm and 45 ACP ammo. Better investment than silver or gold.
The new shooters are wonderful. I know the ammo shortage sucks but the more people we can get into the Gun community to understand that firearms aren’t anything more than tools the more free we become as a society.
If they stay of that mind, many will only have test fired, maybe sight in, maybe practice a lil bit, BUT MANY WITHOUT OR WITH PROPER INSTRUCTION, WILL STILL BE AFRAID OF THEM AND WHEN DANGER PASSES THEY'LL LIKELY SIT IN DRAWERS, OR LOCKED AWAY, THEN WHEN THEY NEED CA$H, OR WIFE SAYS * I DON'T REALLY THINK WE NEED THAT DANGEROUS THING LAYING ROUND THE HOUSE ANYMORE * EVERYTHINGS ALL FIXED N BETTER NOW AND THAT WON'T HAPPEN AGAIN IN OUR LIFETIMES NOW THAT ALL THE BAD PEOPLE ARE IN JAIL OR DEAD. So if you know any of these new shooters try to encourage them to get more comfortable, familiar with there Firearms and remind them that crime will always exist as long as man is an imperfect being and unstable, abusive, family situations exist where children are raised. We all need to keep a helpfull caring eye on each other and try to stop wrong before it goes to far esp where children are concerned, yeah it takes a lil courage to step into a situation when a child is being abused by an outta control parent, sibling, other children, but that's what you must learn needs to, must be done, or we'll start sliding rite back into it again, Ayuh
@@dalehill559 or they can own a gun because they want one. Rights to bear arms is for all. Thats everyone's right remember that..... Not just for "dont tread on my flabs" boys. Its just another body with another weapon. If you decide to keep splitting these people go ahead I'd like to know where it goes. Lmao "Evil is out there dont let your WIFE sell your gun at the garage sell in 3 years!" Or some of us just like to hunt and know that we have protection.
Those people just want a fire arm for themselves and aren't going to change political idea. They're hypocrates and would never stand and fight for something they despise
When all else fails, pull up a list of all the ranged weapons made prior to 1900, compare the designs with the parameters for Firearms and Destructive Devices as outlined by the NFA and the rulings of the ATF so that you stay within the law, and get _creative._
A free people ought not only be armed and disciplined, But they should have sufficient arms and ammunition to maintain a status of independence from any who might attempt to abuse them, which would include their own government. - George Washington
Buy same ammo as our military, set what you can personally carry with full kit aside and don’t shoot it, buy what you practice with and rotate what you have set aside every few months. Don’t panic buy like the vid said that’s the problem l would not buy from a person selling as a profiteer leave them stuck with what they bought if lucky they won’t have the weapons to shoot most of it ✌️🤠👌
I'm trying to keep from stockpiling, and only buying enough to shoot and have a bit on reserve, but the scarcity definitely seems to fuel purchases, like he said. I've been shooting less for fun and focused on honing my shooting skills. I've been pulling out a pellet rifle more these days because I can still train sight picture and trigger discipline, without the monetary cost or the expenditure of ammo.
They're lying the real cause of the shortage is because they are mass producing for government and state contracts that means the military and the police get all the ammunition that they want or need before we get anything that's why there's no ammo on the shelves they have sold us down the damn River
I've worked at large metal foundries that run 24/7 365 and there is always at least 50+ people there no matter what time of day it is. Why are his shelves so empty? Where are the workers? If ammo is so hard to make why are more ammo manufacturers not poping up but hundreds of businesses came out over night to capitalize on the whole face mask market? Who are these international customers he's talking about and why are we selling to foreign governments? 4:01
Look behind them they are filling boxes and pallets. We don't run every part of our factory either. Those are probably overflow shelves and stuff is probably going onto pallets to ship that day. Looked liked that to me.
I used to shoot at a plinking range twice a year maybe go through 500 rounds, now it's been 10 years since I went and felt like every shot was a financial hardship
currently got a huge restock on Freedom Seeds. Tryna to pump as much of them as possible to potential receptors. We do all we can for freedom. If interested leave me an email. And don’t feel offended if it takes me a while to reply, cuz they’re so many in line but I always do my best to satisfy the most.
@@gilestorphy3744 not offended at all just stay in the fight and hopefully when this mad men is out of the white house there might be something to rebuild
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It sucks man. I make ok money, but am basically priced out of any real practice with all my guns. I just can't justify going out and shooting boxes and boxes of ammo every week or two in 3 different calibers. It costs around a 100$ in ammo just to take my main carry gun out for an hr or so of shooting as usually when I do find 9mm ball it's 25-30$ a box minimum. And over the last 5-6 years all the spots outside of town I used to go shoot at for free have been fenced of and signs put up. And I really can't afford to shoot my carry ammo because it's running far higher for smaller boxes. And that's if I can even find it, which I never can anyway. Every once and awhile since I'm friendly with the guys at the gunstore/indoor range, I can get them to hook me up with some of the 9mm range ammo they have hidden in back for when people buy guns if they have a little extra, and it's still around 15$ a box but it's rare that they can swing it. But really I have been shooting maybe once every 2-3 months, 1 box of ammo maybe two if I got lucky and only with the p365xl that I carry. I have even started carrying range ammo because it's been so long since I have been able to get any gold dot that I don't feel proficient enough shooting it out of such a small pistol anymore. I put a mag through it last time I shot and while I can still hit effectively enough at closer ranges, I am way off compared to the standard ball I have been able to shoot with far more often. I really hope that this ends soon and hopefully ammo pricesn go back down to a reasonable amount.
@@jonkR96 If this country can survive that long. We can survive fools but not outright traitors and globalist sellouts seeking to destroy this country.
In good circumstances, standing up a new line for things is at least 12 months after you decide to "pull the trigger" on adding capacity. And that's not an easy decision since once you buy the equipment you're stuck with the cost so you better be sure the demand is gonna continue long enough for you to pay the equipment.
Price is an issue too. What used to be .20 or .22 a round is now a ridiculous.50 to over a dollar a round depending on caliber etc. I get it, but damn!
Some manufacturers are popping a little bit but its mostly stores. Like the dude said, people gotta pay their bills and if theyre behind and they have a commodity they can charge high for then they're going to.
TRUE ! I was about say stop buying everything you see in a panic. If things get "THAT BAD" were screwed regardless! And gouging people on the net! Like your gonna retire with that chump change!.sad deal people very sad.
“You go into a store and see 3 boxes. You gonna buy all 3?” Not at double or triple the price I’m not. Seeing 1000 CCI small rifle primers selling for $300-$400 is fucking nuts Glad I bought them 2 years ago for under $100
@@ford1chevy2dodge3 Went to gun & ammo auction this past weekend. 500 round bricks of 22’s....$125-$180 depending on where the bidding took them. Plus buyer’s premium of 22% and tax. Guys were leaving with hand trucks full. Will be a cold day in hell for me. I’ll put them on the walls as dust collectors IF I run out of ammo. I’ll just limit my practice shooting to monthly instead of weekly. I’m set for life at that rate
My thought is that the stores are calling their friends and saying ”hey, we had a shipment of ammo arrive so come on by so you can horde more ammo.” Then I come in a they say “oh, we had shipment come in but just sold the last of it.”
Friends and family do usually have the benefit of getting first dibs, but unless the gun store is unscrupulous they are not giving all the ammo to their friends. Hell they may not even be giving it to them at cost anyways. The supply they are getting is limited from before January 2020 levels, and they have more people than ever trying to buy stuff, you do the math.
Not the stores, the people working at the stores. And I can confirm that this does happen, because I've recorded multiple instances of it and reported those employees to the stores' respective corporate offices. Most of them are no longer employed with those stores.
Right now there's also a bit of a secondary market on ammo and people out of work/working from home. You'll see people lining up at any store on delivery day waiting for them to open to either buy ammo for themselves/friends or to sell on a secondary market at a mark up.
Glad you did this one, Colion. This is a really weird situation. Makes me wonder if the base employees are grabbing the ammo and selling it online, etc.
@@jackflackk3153 it is! look at AAC they are making a killing selling match quality ammo direct to consumer 40% less than their competitors! i wouldnt own a 300 blk gun if it wast for them!
@@LibertyFirst1789 and you are too, who do you think makes that 9mm in the handguns that police use? The same exact people who make some of the 9mm you see on a Cabela's shelf.
@@cleveland2286 you claimed they are buying "tons MORE", then prove it. How much did they buy before and how much are they buying now? You have _no clue._ Your comment is bullshit.
@@LibertyFirst1789 That is not a conspiracy theory, you should look up the definition, the police buying ammunition is not that outlandish yet you are here screaming like a little girl. How hard is it to act mature and try to debate what he said? Where are your sources? This is taught in middle school. Plus, I never claimed it, "your comment is bullshit". I guess reading is beyond the capabilities of the average youtube user.
@@cleveland2286 Prove that the government has been "buying tons MORE" ammunition. Lets see *ONE* source that proves the government is buying any _more_ than they ever bought! _Conspiracy theory: Hypothetical speculation that is untrue or outlandish._ *Yep, it fits* Prove what you claim to "know" or STFU.
Went to range last week. First time in several months. 1 hour of range time ($12), 2 paper targets and 200 rounds of 9mm = $160.00. I couldnt believe it. What worries me isnt the long term availability. Its the fact it will likely not come down in price after the supply issue flattens out.
I imagine it's more complicated than we think. My brother sells lumber which has quadrupled and the pricing is all based on many factors and there is always the delay catch up
@@billy_barry Once they get it back normalized, then yes it will go down. There is no way that people will continue paying these prices. The newness will wear off, more people will begin to realize shooting while fun isn't as exciting, and reloaders will have enough products. It may take another year or two, but things will balance out. The main issue is inflationary pressure to keep price high. It isn't the profits driving the costs, it's not the demand, it's the loss of revenue for 18 months so many resellers took on the chin alongside the inflation squeeze on ancillary shipping and taxation increases.
Nothing mind boggling about it at all. No company is going to build extra factories in anticipation of a shortage only to let them sit idle while waiting for a shortage. No company is going to produce massive surpluses of product during normal business times just to stockpile it in warehouses waiting for a shortage. Factories are expensive, warehouses are expensive, employees to man factories and warehouses are expensive. They would probably lose more money in the down years keeping all of those facilities active than they would make during times like right now.
Did you not pay attention during Trump when there was such a big ammo surplus that companies were losing money? Companies are not going to cater to the short term, they are looking towards long term survival.
@@DaveSmith-cp5kj Ammo shortage happened under Trump. Get your history right. Covid lockdown and BLM/Antifa rioting were used to scare the pubic into buying guns and hoarding ammo.
increasing staff, increasing equipment, maximizing supplies.... yet as a consumer I cant get my hands on anything, all my local mom and pop FFLs cant get their hands on anything, big-name businesses around me cant get their hands on anything.... and I'm in PA. such bullshit.
I'm calling B.S. on this. If people haven't been able to buy ammo for the last 9 to 12 months, and the ammo manufacturers are putting out as fast as possible, where is the ammo going?
Especially as going from 50 million to 58 million gun owners is an increase of 16%. You can't convince me that they all started hoarding at the same time as well. They probably don't want to admit how many components and materials were really coming from overseas.
@@hendo338 Do you realize that gun laws around the world are pretty stringent. Here in the Baltics to get a gun you have to (1) go to your doctor and get a certificate saying you have no mental health issues (2) take a government course and pass the test (3) you have to go to a government range and pass a competency test (4) you have to take all of the above documents to the police and apply including why you need a gun (5) getting the police certificate you may now go to a gun store and buy a gun. You need a certificate to buy ammo. 15 years ago I walked into a gun store in the Czech Republic and I saw a customer use his certificate to return a rifle scope and buy a different one with new rings AND buy 20 bullets which were counted out from an inventoried box. Think about Walmart purchases in the states about 3 years ago.
I knew there’d be some narrow-minded jerk who picked up on that. What do you mean International business? You think the US are the only ones who should be allowed product? Every other country is in the same boat. Maybe they should take your opinion. Good luck shooting anything when the bulk of the best powder the US uses comes from “International”!
American ammunition is quite popular in South Africa. We have locally produced 9mm and 12ga ammo, but for most other calibers, imported American ammo is standard.
“Making more than ever!, Cranking it out!” But where does that go? I check ALOT of sites DAILY!!! None to be found. Where is all of that CRANKED OUT ammo being sold at?
Law enforcement buy commercial ammo. Us military does not. It produces its own at lake city ammuniion plant near independence, Missouri. Remington arms was contracted to manage site. They do not sell to the public.
I feel violated and like my gender isn't receiving recognition nor funding. I'm triggered. We deserve a safe space where we can express ourselves that's fully funded(range). More funding(ammo) from being denied access to ammo thru covid.
@@jesuschristislord77733 there's 76 genders and they trying to pass the equality act right NOW. Why isn't ammosexuals included? It's our turn to be recognized . We suffered an pandemic. We need funding to supply our safe spaces. 🤔 Plus it's illegal to discriminate against folks expressing their sexuality.
The last ammo crunch, when nobody could find .22, but everything else was at least in stock to some degree, I called the largest ammo supplier on the east coast and I was told by their sales manager that it would take about the next 12-14 months to get .22 back to where it was and readily available... This time is different.. .45acp, .40 cal, .38, .357 mag, as well as every rifle round is hardly avail anywhere and when it is, it is outrageously priced... when I make it past this drought, however long that might be, I will never get caught short ever again... I thought I was in pretty good shape for what I had before the ammo crisis hit this time but even conserving as much as I have and highly reducing the amount I shoot it still starts to disappear quick, plus it could very well be far longer than anyone can predict as to when ammo will be readily availability again, and at a somewhat normal price... when the time comes I am going to invest heavily and go all in, or as much as I can so I will not even be the least bit worried if things go wonky again and I can breeze through about 3-4 years if need be and be flush with all calibers.... my advice would be that if you think you are all set for a while then go and buy at least double of what you already have when the price is right... it’s bad enough that it’s tough to even find now, but the price is what is hurting most people now too.... I know people who reload and have been doing so for years, and all of them tell me that even reloading supplies are scarce now and prices have shot through the roof... one guy I know hasn’t been able to find primers for over 3 months.... I never thought it would get this bad... I’ve been shooting for over 40yrs... I’ve never seen anything even close to what we are going through now.... at this rate ammo will be worth more than precious metals and stones.... Trump should open up an ammo factory!!!!... that would be a YUGE win on many levels for all of us 👍😬😎🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
After the last couple of ammo crunches, I started minimizing calibers I need. 5.56 & 7.62x51. (Son does have a 7.62x54R and a couple of unopened cans). 9mm & .45. 12g of various types. Used to have .38/.357Spl, .380, .40, .22, .223, and on and on to feed. Much easier to stock up now. Even easier after that boating accident a while back...
It's not just you. Ammo manufactures are taking advantage of the increased demand, which they could easily meet by increasing production, to artificially raise prices. This "shortage" is on purpose - they are price-gouging.
Because the answer is obvious. We are all hoping for some magic explanation and there isn’t one. What needs to happen is the American public needs to realize the real hold back. Help each other and never trust your government. Yet.
it’s also worth noting that most states have had lockdown orders in place for nearly a year. I also find it hard to believe it’s the consumers who are the issue here.
It is a hoarding issue. Just like with toilet paper and hand sanitizer at the beginning of the pandemic. People find out when gun shops get their shipments in and then clean the place out. I know people with basements full of ammo. There are guys who go wait in line at the store on the day they know the store gets their shipment, then they buy a whole bunch of ammo just to try and flip it for double the price (or more). During the pandemic this has been happening in other industries as well, not just the ammo/firearm industry. People are scared, so they buy way more than they need and sit on it.
It certainly does not add up...even if you are first in the door in the morning.. the shelves are empty... no one has the opportunity to hoarde...the product is not going to the stores.. so.. where??
i hated when walmart stopped selling a lot of popular calibers, my local one was like my hidden personal stash. even when 22 was sold out a few years back they always had a few boxes.
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I’ve quit shooting all together because I’m done playing the gun industry’s game. Prices are absolutely ridiculous and I’m not paying a dollar per round for 9mm. I think these rascals and the government are in cahoots to stop gun owners from training and being prepared. Glad I stocked up years ago.
unfortunately i feel the same way. i used to shoot quite a lot. been stocked up but once the prices shot up. no thanks. i’m in storage mode until i need it.
If you haven't notice price are going up in other industries, not just firearms. In the electronics industry, there's are also, shortages aside from stupid scaplers buying everything up. Also, in the video game industry, price are jumping up for first party games as well. Supply and demand is a bitch! Ain't it? 😁
Stop with the conspiratorial nonsense, it's called supply and demand. Nothing in the market has a fixed price, it doesn't work that way. Once supply and demand reach equilibrium again, prices will fall. Right now would be the best time for a bushy-eyed entrepreneur to start an ammunition company.
Next time ask some tough questions. Like, what percent does go to the government? Who are these dealers and what are they doing with the ammo? (Are they sitting on it to drive up the price?) Why not sell direct to the public and prioritize those sales?
The last question is simple - direct sales are almost impossible for a company like that. That would require an entirely new branch of the company and hundreds if not thousands of new employees. Almost all manufacturing companies operate through distributors solely because of that issue - the workforce is the largest "cost" of any company. It's an unfortunate reality - but there's a logic behind not dealing direct. As far as government sales, they exist but they're not the "OMG government is hoarding ammo to kill us!" nonsense. They have contractual obligations with a variety of departments, agencies, and foreign institutions. Unlike retail sales - contractual obligations must be met. It's not something you just arbitrarily cancel because times are tough. A company which cancels or violates contracts will disappear shortly after because no one will do business with them. I'm not making excuses for any company - but it's simply not as easy as people like to make it out. I would have appreciated some info on the distributors - but that's also not something under control of the ammo company themselves. That's where a lot of the nastiness is happening - but that's also basic capitalism.
@@TurnStyleGames Then these contracts that their "obligated" to first, get crazy low prices and we have to pick up the difference. I still say, I smell B.S. There's more to this story, that we don't have access to.
The guy in the video explains where it all goes and just how their working 24 7 to get it to us. Its all in the video if you watch it in it's entirety.
Some are selling directly and still well over twice the price. Yup, they're paying overtime but I can see no true justification for for 2 and 3 times the usual cost
@@glennphillips2393 the video does not say what percent goes to the gov, it does not say who the “dealers” are and it does not say what the “dealer” are doing with the ammo. If you have those answers please reply.
I call BS in the "new owners buying and shooting" explanation. 1) There were over 100M gun owners before. Even 8M new owners would be just 8% increase, and there were no ammo since April when there were no even 1M new owners 2) Range next to me just went out of business,in the middle of record gun sales. They had no ammo to sell for months, and who is shooting $2/round 9mm except for government employees?
My great grandfather had own ammo company in a coffee can on a shelf in the garage, it's called learning to reload but I wouldn't recommend watching a TH-cam video and trying to do it yourself. Still done today by guy's and girl's who don't just own guns but actually know enough about them to want to sit at a press putting their own bullets together although those supplies are running short also so your new company would probably not have enough material for start up anyway. Like you said though it is America the land of if you really want it done right do it yourself. 👍
@@dpz9872 I don't understand so many people starving for ammo, and yet they are resistant to handloading and doing things like making your own primers.
Are you kidding? there’s the normal 50 millions gun owners, then you up the number of owners by 20 percent and then throw on the fact everyone is panic buying it. It’s not hard to understand, it’s on the shelves but it just goes extremely fast, same way with guns, manufactures are at record breaking number, I’m talking 3-4 times normal production and they still can’t keep up.
Too many gun owners are way too paranoid and just ignorant to the facts. @kdeupser and YourFace open your eyes and stop thinking everyone is out to get you. @Your Face of course the price is going to go up its called Supply and Demand, inflation, and other variables that you or I do not know about. Take a basic economic course and you will begin to understand it.
Years ago (1973) there was a sugar shortage.The price of sugar skyrocketed. What you could buy for $0,50 rose to about $3.60 for a 5 lb bag. This continued for forever a month! I happened to work for a major food chain at the time in Norfolk, VA. All through the shortage, my store continued to receive its normal allotment but I could only put out 10 bags on the shelf daily. A similar shortage occurred about the same of foreign oil! This lasted for at least 6 weeks. My Navy vessel was doing weekly training off the coast of Virginia. It was observed that many large tankers gasoline and oil was anchored about 13 miles off the coast-just far enough off the coast not to be seen. So, I take what has been said here with a grain of salt. How many warehouses have been rented until the price of ammo becomes normal? Follow the money...
Always follow the money, and take everything with a grain of salt, but most importantly do the research on what we are being told yourself! It's the only way not to be lied to!
Same thing going on with wood right now. wood has risen over 300% for some products, but the mills will not buy wood for processing or only buy small amounts. Wood suppliers have plenty of processed wood in stock wherever you go, (at least where I live) No shortage here just ridiculous prices, and I work for a lumber mill. It's called price fixing or market manipulation, but what can we do, our government is letting this happen regardless of who is in office. so yeah FOLLOW THE MONEY.
@servant of jesus If you think the government is buying ammo you search for beta.SAM should be a gov site and see all the active and inactive contracts that the military puts out. Just put into keywords ammo types and there you go. Its not a secret and this is how almost all contracts if not all gets filled to my knowledge.
I would like to know how much ammo the government is buying. And where are all of the reloading components? They are none to be found but by people who hoarded and are now selling at twice the amount
Richard, I think you underestimated the profit margin these hoarders have in mind. A few months ago I went to a well known gun site and checked on prices for small pistol and small rifle primers. Last year I could get a brick (5,000 primers, any day, every day) for about $180. Now it will cost you up to $1,500 for the same brick, much more than your "double the price", for sure. And yes I agree what kind of shennanigans do these companies have with gov't sales? And it was really troubling to hear him say international sales. The heck with them, focus on us Americans. Stay safe my friend and stay strong!
@@bobsue3639 I agree, they need to slash government and international sales, and sell to US citizens first. Once the demand slows start ramping up sales to the feds and international orders.
The main ingredient used in all small-arms ammunition propellants is nitrocellulose. The Radford Army Ammunition Plant in Virginia is the sole producer of this essential ingredient for all propellants used throughout the Army’s ammunition industrial base. Radford has an acid-concentrator facility that produces the nitric and sulphuric acids that, when combined with cellulose, make nitrocellulose. Ninety-nine percent of all small-arms ammunition used in Afghanistan and Iraq contains nitrocellulose produced at this facility. Finally, the primer in most cartridges is made from over 13 different chemicals, which are mixed at the Lake City plant. Lake City manufactures the primers for all small-arms ammunition produced at its facility. ATK continues to seek additional sources of supply for the primer mix chemicals. All suppliers are based in the United States. However, the U.S. suppliers obtain these chemicals from Canada, Europe, Mexico, India, Brazil, and China as well as the United States. Small-Arms Ammunition Production and Acquisition: Too Many Eggs in One Basket?
i horded and i have sold nothing thats why i can shoot what i want when i want this has happened before and i swore i would never be put in that position again and i am not now and will never be because i stocked up when things were available like primers and powder and bullets learn from your mistakes i didnt hord to make money i hoarded so i can protect my family and the constitution
He should’ve been a press secretary he spoke for seven minutes and still really didn’t answer the question! Everywhere I go there is a one or two box limit and it’s hard to believe that there’s that many new gun owners! I’m glad I already had a good stock before all this shit started !!
Its new gun owners and existing owners are stockpiling. The people who used to only keep a couple boxes on hand and would just buy when they shot are now stockpiling. Multiple that times millions. Also i think more people are trying to shoot/train more...i know guys that already trained are having to train less but the large number of people who before shot 30 rounds once a year are all trying to go out shooting more often
Some people are hoarding and re-selling at exorbitant prices. I feel like if your not in the inner ring of someone who works at a major distributor or retailer your gonna be out of the loop. I’m certainly not opposed to a free-market but it does seem quite annoying. I don’t know the exact numbers but these would be close: 50 million gun owners and 10 billion rounds produced in a year is only 200 rounds a person. That’s total to stockpile and shoot for an entire year. Now throw in some middle men buying up a few thousand rounds here or there, or maybe even sitting on a few hundred thousand rounds and trying to sell at ridiculous prices online. That and just the average person here or there that is somehow able to build there own small stock-pile by adding say 500-1000 rounds on top of what they had pre-pandemic. You can see how it would be extremely sparse out there. I’m hoping they just keep churning out ammo and eventually people are either semi-satisfied with their personal stocks or unwilling/unable to buy massive mark-ups. Then it will slowly unwind. Honestly I’d just like to have shooting as a hobby again...
@@JamesJamersonIsAGod The numbers sound about right to me. I've shot 500 rounds in a weekend competition, and shooting a hundred or so just practicing on a weekend wasn't unusual. Haven't shot since I got my .22 AR conversion kit 8 months ago. I invested in reloading instead of buying new ammo, as I saved my brass most every time I shot. Glad I did that.
Warehouse and factory aren't the same thing. A warehouse is where you store the accumulated products you haven't sold yet. It's going out the door as fast as it's made.
Govt controls how many primers they will receive. People need to search for the info. Read , Small-Arms Ammunition Production and Acquisition: Too Many Eggs in One Basket?
That’s the shipping area where everything is boxed up to be picked up and sent out. Does UPS and FedEx deliver packages to your house any hour of the day? Normally only a couple of pickups a day that ship out for the compete orders.
My thoughts too. " we are cranking it out non stop". What's that shelf behind you? " that's our daily fill shelf" .... but it's empty even though your are cranking it out???
"Hey, guys. We have this journalist who wants to make a video interview about the ammo situation. You can take half an hour off, so we can record this without the sound of an active ammo factory messing up the recording" Not that weird.
Had an issue during muzzleloader season at my local Walmart trying to get supplies for season , and learned that they were only allowed to set out powder one week then primers the next week and then bullets the following week but were not allowed to set out all supplies at the same time . Due to orders given to them from headquarters, ( US government) .
Sounded like the government shipments aren't out of the ordinary. He made it clear that the supply and demand issue is due to demand on the civilian side.
@@reachvictoria3386 there are a lot of people reloading now. Not to far back you couldn't reload common hand gun ammo for you could buy it. Not anymore.
I hope this ammo shortage comes to an end in the near future so I can get back to target practice in my backyard, but I'm glad I stocked up. It's probably been quite hard for the newbies, I imagine.
@@johnmerck5883 just call around your local establishments, stay away from the places that are selling a 50 round box of 9mm for $70.00 that’s outrages but people are still buying it. I’ve heard of 25 HP rounds of 9mm go for $75.00 - $100.00
Very little just remember all the real ammo plants are owned by the government anyway but contractor run. I'm not even American and know more about your industry. 7millon new shooters buy 100 rounds each , that's an extra 700,000,000 rounds bought across the USA.
@@thehopperhopes6365 I don't think E A revealed anything in this comment that would give you even a hint of what he/she knows about the industry. They simply expressed an interest in hearing the Nosler guy's response to that question. It seems like you are trying to sound smart but coming across as the opposite.
The government buys - hollow point bullets - that are not available to the average gun owner... the government only buys the less lethal ammo for practice...
yeah im sure biden will make great trade deals considering he has never had to run a business and hes being paid off by the chicoms, (china communists)
@@fifthward1983 oh that was one of the first things biden did was change back the trade deals especially with China. You don't hear harley davidson bitchin anymore do ya?
Yeah that never comes up! They also never admit that many of the primer manufacturers are overseas and those deliveries are disrupted, or that we import most of the lead and that is disrupted as well.
How about the legally binding contracts the ammunition producers have signed to provide ammunition to Federal, State, Tribal, and local government agencies??
Hell he could be telling the entire truth as far as he knows. Sure maybe he's only selling like 5% to the government on paper, but the government could still buy like an additional 40% through dummy corporations and he wouldn't even know for sure due to it looking like a normal purchase order from "Sportsman & Outdoors Man LLC." or some other such named generic corporation that has no stores or way to sell to the consumer and is actually owned by the government. Not saying this is what is happening, but just one possibility.
The fact that Colion is willing to lend his personal credibility to this guys message means a lot. He's got skin in the game because if we were to find out the guy was lying, Colion knows he'd see a corresponding drop in his own subscribers. I trusted Nosler's message a LOT more than I did Federal's because of this.
@@rogerwilco99 ".... must have IQ's less than 80....." or the "voting" machines "counted" the vote for those traitorous politicians As Stalin once said (I think) "It's not the people whose vote counts, it's the people who count the vote does."
My son-in-law is one of these new gun owners you speak of. Guess what? When he bought his snubby .38 he went to 6 different places and hasen't been able to find a single round of ammo in 3 months.
I have a family member who is in charge of training for the police department where I am and he handles all the orders for them , he told me he has no idea when they will get another shipment of ammo. They don’t even have an approximate time frame for when it’s coming. It’s also one of the larger police departments in the country.
Not even shotgun shells in the stores anymore, which sucks since a double barrel shotgun being shot in the air is the most effective home defense weapon
Well I want to know who is buying all the #8 shot. That stuff sucks for home defense... and I want to just shoot some clays. I guess all the shotgun ammo manufacturers are making $1 per round 00 buck versus $.20/round #8.
Most of the cost is for regulations. We found out that if you manufacture in the US it's a 32% operating cost increase, then if you were to send the parts to China and then have the product sent back. It's a direct assualt on US manufacturing, bottom line
It’s all about supply and demand. They say they are doing their best to “crank out” product, but why would they, when they can slow supply and make double or triple the profit on each item sold? Profit is always the bottom line in the corporate world. You can hear crickets in that factory during this interview...
Economics doesn't work that way. Shortages mean they are not maximizing profits. Profit maximization occurs when supply exactly matches demand, so they are actually losing money (in opportunity cost of course)
I'm glad you did this video and that he was straight forward with you. Yes finding some calibers are extremely difficult to find and not talking about odd ball stuff. I'm on 5-6 different companies notice list, 7mm08 140 or 150 gr lead bullets . If you speak to that CEO again please ask. Very good job on this video.
I agree, most stores I have been going to have limited box purchases to 2 for the last year. The shortage started over a year ago and they have not come close to expanding enough.
@@Tazer120 you have to think, if they expand and buy more equipment and train more people and when people eventually settle down and stop panic buying those companies will then be too large and the demand tanks and they lay people off. Im sure they expanded a little but pretty much just staying the same normal output just waiting on people to stop buying like they are. Same thing im doing, i have enough that i dont need to buy during this crazy time and will wait out the panic buying till prices come down and start to go shooting again at the range.
And the ammunition industry is being cautious, as they are also planning for the worse...that the anti-gun movement within tne US government IS planning to legislate, litigate, limit, tax and restrict ammunition sales and possession across the entire country, to the point that the average American, let alone those with below average or fixed incomes, will not be able to afford or possess firearms or ammunition. There is no incentive increase production if the only ones who will be legally and financially able to buy ammunition are local and federal government agencies.
I'll be so glad to get back to shooting on a regular basis. Thank you guys for working so hard to get us back to our normal. God bless you, God bless us, God bless the U.S.A
It seems so long ago that we were shooting whenever the hell we felt like it and buying ammo on the cheap every time we left the house. I'm glad I did that now but you never have enough ammo and it's painful to shoot right now knowing that the ammunition is usually irreplaceable and if you do find some it's 3 times the pre-covid price
"Doing the best we can" sounds just peachy but does nothing for the consumer trying to buy a box of 20 9mm rounds that isn't selling for as much as $65 advertised by hoarding lowlifes. It is IMPOSSIBLE to find a box in any retailers shelves !
They love the current environment and will do everything to keep it the same in fact i seriously doubt they ramp up anything in fact other companies like Rolex manipulated demand by cutting production intentionally and made millions off of it.
Precisely. Kinda avoided the actual percentage. He laughed off the idea of government having a 20% stake, but didn't bother to clarify if that number was higher or lower.
He can't because that's confidential information. You do not what your competitors to know how much government business you are getting. Some government contracts go as far as to legally prohibit a seller from giving any details about the contract/order under threat it will be immediately revoked.
I like how the interview was just them casually walking through the empty aisle saying they don't have inventory because there is nothing on the shelves.
Never had an issue with people buying it all up because they may want 3, 4, 10 boxes but I've seen 2 box limits for the last 8 months
Where i live its 1 box limit regardless the size. And im in the south
yeah two box limits aka. buy two boxes go put it in your car go back in and buy more n go to a different cashier. works great.
Its one box limits here where I’m at.
They have to. With the way things are right now, if they put 30 boxes on the shelf (if they even get that lucky to have that many), one customer will come in and buy probably half of it; maybe even all of it. One or two people get a lot of ammo and they screw over everyone else. It's like toilet paper of the gun industry. Most grocery stores last year had to limit the number of packs of toilet paper customers could buy so that their inventory lasted longer and spread throughout many customers rather than one jerkoff buying everything.
@@gregsall5872 guilty 🤣
Does anyone remember when you could shoot 500 rounds at the range and not be stressed out... Do you member? I member!
I member too! Many years ago a good buddy told me that a gun “enthusiast” should have 10,000 rounds for EVERY caliber gun they own.
I always thought, someday... if I could ever afford it.
Pepperidge farms remember too!
pepperidge farm remembers
500 rounds 9mm used to be 80 or 85 bucks. Nowadays it’s a much higher price than that.
@@locksley11 you could buy 1000 rounds of reloads for 150 bucks 5 years ago... At least that's what I was told. I don't own guns or gun accessories
Colion Noir really has stepped up for gun owners all over this country. I’m so proud of this guy for putting out great content and standing up for us.
@@PerfectPrinceX1 What has he said that is click bait? He is always defending our gun rights on liberal platforms.
Amen
@@PerfectPrinceX1 It's not an opinion that the right to bear arms shall not be infringed. It literally says "shall not be infringed". Everything Colion speaks is facts and he has evidence to back it up.
at least he's not the huge NRA mouth piece he once was
The best spokesman we could ask for
A bigger problem is that what used to cost 20 bucks a box now costs 100 a box.
Supply and demand
Thats why I stock arrows.
@@cacsoccer101 my favorite part about "supply and demand" in 2021 is that it never go's back the other way until a government gets "altered"
@@cacsoccer101 Also the cost of making the goods goes up. Wage increases, more workers, taxes are going up, material costs are going up, price of new equipment and maintenance is going up etc.
That's with everyday now a days. Inflation. They are always printing money money so it will lower the value.
Gun store specials used to be:
"Free box of 9mm with purchase of Glock 17"
Now it's more like:
"Free Glock 17 with purchase of box of 9mm".
I wish.
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@@positiveenergy960 scam
@aragot ra no it’s a literal scam, this is a bot, pls don’t buy anything off that website before doing a little bit of research on the “company”
@@rogerwilco99 Strange cause one of my local gun shops, Triple J Armory, has plenty of handguns and long guns. Ammo not so much. Also, I use Gunbroker.com and they have plenty of guns & ammo, so I get a little confused when people say they can’t find one or the other.
We are loosing stores left and right because they can’t get products to sell, seems ridiculous in this day and age with this level of demand.
Thats the plan. Restrict the ammo, kill the stores, consolidate into only megacorps who dance to govt music....
Kinda like how BASS PRO AND CABELA'S just offered up lists of customers who bought polymer 80's. Ill never shop with them again.
@@mikebolton3816 Exactly. We already saw for the last year that they hate small businesses and want them all gone. Killing small gun stores is like double dipping as far as tyrants are concerned.
My LGS laid off everyone but the owner and his manager/wife, and cut their operating hours. I almost applied for a job there in 2019. Glad I didn't, now.
Support universal basic income, rather than big industry bailouts. That’s the way to reverse this path on which we’re headed. The people need the power, not mega corporations and government.
@@quaternio USSR joke: They pretend to pay us and we pretend to work.
I've always been told Guns can be an expensive hobby. Never is more true than today!
Learn from the mistakes of your videogames! Conserve your ammo!
Airsoft bro
Airsoft just isnt the same. Not only is it weird, but from what I have noticed, the culture is just a shame.
This is based on the airsoft competition videos Ive seen, so I could have a minute perspective on it. Though there are lots of airsofters pretending to be soldiers that put their veterans to shame.
@@bigmonkeyhead2992 I feel this. I thought about going out and slicing up the pies out there. But I don't have the dough to invest in airsoft atm.
I’m just glad I was able to find and buy .223 and 5.56 nato rounds very scarce online atm I was able to pickup about 400 rounds of both online for a premium of course but well worth it my ar has 7x30 round clips now and pops has 3x30 so we are ready for them to push this “agenda” that we the people don’t want.
@@bigmonkeyhead2992 airsofts fun depending on where you’re located. I’m on the west coast and I’ve been playing since 2013. It’s a blast, and obviously there’s always going to be those people who ruin it. But comparing my local paintball community to my air soft community I’d say paintball is as toxic as a MW2 multiplayer lobby. People cheating, and grown men cursing out children... it’s wild.
Most people on airsoft don’t take themselves to seriously, and a lot of veterans participate in games and events. Hell, a lot of the people that own airsoft fields out in my area are veterans. So I’d give it a chance, you’d never know.
I really turned 18 at the worst time ever. I got lumped in with the 2020 panic buyers. I was going to buy a gun when I turned 18 regardless, now it's just harder to shoot.
If you can get a stripped lower, get as many as you can. Take your sweet time building :)
I also got stuck during the 9/11 shortage, however don't look at it as you can't shoot, look it as an opportunity to learn new skills. Learn how to make primers and powder, and cast bullets. Learn home gunsmithing you can make your own gun fairly easily, especially now that 3D printers are only ~$100 and you can use those to make the frames pretty easy. When you learn how to make things yourself you will never be dependent on the supply.
@@DaveSmith-cp5kj This.
@@DaveSmith-cp5kj
Are those 3D lowers are as good as factory injection molded plastic pieces? I dint think soì
@@DaveSmith-cp5kj Kinda reckless telling an 18yo with zero experience to build his first gun though. There's no shortage of guns, just ammo. He'd be a hundred times better off buying a gun and learning how it works and how the principles apply when building his first home built.
"You're a gun owner. You go shooting"
Not very often anymore.
gotta hang on to it just in case!!
@@1cor15saves 100% this, I have 3 guns I haven't even shot yet because of this.
I think that’s exactly what some people want.... People not shooting often anymore because ammo is so dang expensive. If you can’t ban guns try to kill people’s interest in guns by making ammo expensive..
@@sortedevaras Kinda blows my mind; I miraculously found a LGS with .45ACP and paid damn near 45$ for it. I remember two or three years ago, the same amount would have only sold for about 15.50$. Sad day.
You think... Im from canada, trudeau BANNED me from ever shooting my ar15 forever. Now my ar15 are just a decoration in my safe. Then all my handguns can ONLY be used on a shooting range, and they have been closed since the begening of covid. So... Tell me how much you cant go shoot anywhere.
People are realizing that the last line of defense for themselves and their family, are themselves!
They are the first and last.
in europe they believe it's socialists and environmentalists LOL
🤣 what a bunch of BS
Become self-reliant
I agree with you but it should be the first.
9mm, .45, .380, 22cal, all faster than calling 911.
Stop buying it from secondary sources that buy it up and re-sell it for double and triple the price.
Not everyone has family or friends working at gun stores who tell then when shipments come in... or hold boxes for them.
My "secondary" sources are Academy and my local gun stores. Where else should I go? Cause Optics Planet has had me on back order about 5 months now
@@jonkR96 I don't either, I hand load. Primers and powder will eventually become an issue. I used to go to the range 3+ times a month had to cut back the trips and volume of ammo we expend.
@@Tusk_Tact I was referring to pawn shops and those online places that sell firearms,ammo,components and accessories in private sales. I saw a 500 round box 5.7x28 LE for $799.00 that's just crazy but people are paying it. I understand supply and demand.
Hear ya, keep buying from your neighborhood gun shop we mist keep them in business
I like how level headed and straight forward both of you were. I also love that he's not willing to compromise on quality and is trying to take care of everybody. The economy, country, community and so on have a lot of pieces moving in intricate ways.
Hire all the pipeline employees that were laid off.
Amen!!!!
Yes allocate those xxl pipe line workers, they will work hard for American company's..
Good idea but they probably won’t work for less than 50 bucks an hour and will be dicks to guys at the plant, not all of them but most.
hiring more people is not this issue, they don't have the manufacturing capabilities to keep up. Let's say they build a new building just to increase production, that takes a lot of time to build. Find, a location to build or expand, permits, contractor bidding, contractor availability, extra safety precautions due to covid during the build, tool install, QC, train workers. And that's just part of it. Will it be beneficial for them to expand long term or is this just a temporary situation.
Were they not biden supporters?
One huge problem this is causing (IMO) is that all of those new gun owners won't be able to adequately train if they can't find ammo.
All the self-proclaimed “preppers” are still buying cases of ammo.
You can train almost everything except recoil control...let’s keep encouraging everyone to practice carrying and drawing and dry fire
every time they see an empty shelf, send a message your representatives to object to all gun controls and stop proposing them and fine and jail ATF for enforcing under color of law 1934 National Firearms Act.
When the bad actors get put in their place the ammo will too.
Only a civil war will make change... Career politicians are the worst because they never worked hard a day in their life, look down on us like bottomfeeders! They dont care anything about the people.
@@garyallen9840 we are expendable to these politicians.
We are like chess pieces in the game they play called politics.
@@garyallen9840 wrong, even in the worst case civil war we still need to replace what’s broken, we just need enough people doing what needs to be done to change what we have now. Eliminating career politicians is a good start and we start by voting them all out with people that campaign on putting term limits in place.
At least he didn't yell at us like other ammo company CEOs.
Very delicate huh.
That guy was walking through a noisy plant
He had to. Cmon mannnn
"I guess you're trying to figure out which side of the family I'm from", too funny. You rock brother!
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Smh I remember paying $98 for a box 500 rounds of 9mm Ammo from LAX Ammo before this pandemic now a box of 500 rounds of 9mm Ammo from other sources are selling for almost $1000 It’s disgusting 🤮
I miss the good old days. Just a few years ago, I remember going to a gun shop, and seeing boxes of ammo all around me. They even had buckets of 9mm Remington ammo piled on the showroom floor. And you could just grab anything you wanted and take it to the register. Boy, how things have changed. If only I would have known, I would have spent all of 2019 stockpiling 9mm and 45 ACP ammo. Better investment than silver or gold.
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The new shooters are wonderful. I know the ammo shortage sucks but the more people we can get into the Gun community to understand that firearms aren’t anything more than tools the more free we become as a society.
If they stay of that mind, many will only have test fired, maybe sight in, maybe practice a lil bit, BUT MANY WITHOUT OR WITH PROPER INSTRUCTION, WILL STILL BE AFRAID OF THEM AND WHEN DANGER PASSES THEY'LL LIKELY SIT IN DRAWERS, OR LOCKED AWAY, THEN WHEN THEY NEED CA$H, OR WIFE SAYS * I DON'T REALLY THINK WE NEED THAT DANGEROUS THING LAYING ROUND THE HOUSE ANYMORE * EVERYTHINGS ALL FIXED N BETTER NOW AND THAT WON'T HAPPEN AGAIN IN OUR LIFETIMES NOW THAT ALL THE BAD PEOPLE ARE IN JAIL OR DEAD. So if you know any of these new shooters try to encourage them to get more comfortable, familiar with there Firearms and remind them that crime will always exist as long as man is an imperfect being and unstable, abusive, family situations exist where children are raised. We all need to keep a helpfull caring eye on each other and try to stop wrong before it goes to far esp where children are concerned, yeah it takes a lil courage to step into a situation when a child is being abused by an outta control parent, sibling, other children, but that's what you must learn needs to, must be done, or we'll start sliding rite back into it again, Ayuh
@@dalehill559 or they can own a gun because they want one. Rights to bear arms is for all. Thats everyone's right remember that..... Not just for "dont tread on my flabs" boys. Its just another body with another weapon. If you decide to keep splitting these people go ahead I'd like to know where it goes. Lmao "Evil is out there dont let your WIFE sell your gun at the garage sell in 3 years!" Or some of us just like to hunt and know that we have protection.
True, plus old school gun nuts should have been stocking up over years.
Well, that makes me feel a bit better.
Those people just want a fire arm for themselves and aren't going to change political idea. They're hypocrates and would never stand and fight for something they despise
You can’t disarm the American people.
When all else fails, pull up a list of all the ranged weapons made prior to 1900, compare the designs with the parameters for Firearms and Destructive Devices as outlined by the NFA and the rulings of the ATF so that you stay within the law, and get _creative._
Just you can disrupt there Ammo supplies
maybe not, but they'll certainly try
You can definitely cause an ammo shortage tho
@@mxiii3729 I don't know if the pandemic is fake. Find a youtube channel called ADV China or ADV podcasts, and watch their last two episodes.
I love that there are people out there that are asking these questions.
I love that there's people out there completely lacking common sense. This really is a stupid country.
The scalpers are pathetic. Glad I did my shopping 2 Presidents ago.
Wish I did. But I didn't own guns then. I mean I don't own them now 👉👈😑
@@williamwinder5011 you must have lost them during a voting accident 🤣🤣👍😎
1000 rounds of 7.62 x 39 is now $500. Price was around $200 for 1000 a little over a year ago.
I would’ve done the same but didn’t know much when I first bought my guns when I was 19 2 years ago.
@@dangerousliberty 1000rnds of 5.56 is $800-$900. It was $275-$325 this time last year. 🤬
Alot of people I know lost their guns in a "voting accident"
Nah. It was lost before that. Every time we spend our money we are voting.
My goodness that's hilarious but true
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Haha!! Very nice! Brilliant!!
Nobody lost any guns
A free people ought not only be armed and disciplined, But they should have sufficient arms and ammunition to maintain a status of independence from any who might attempt to abuse them, which would include their own government. - George Washington
Then make ammo. easy to cast your own rounds if you dont got em.
You can also typically find ammo online, just only in massive bulk.
Buy same ammo as our military, set what you can personally carry with full kit aside and don’t shoot it, buy what you practice with and rotate what you have set aside every few months. Don’t panic buy like the vid said that’s the problem l would not buy from a person selling as a profiteer leave them stuck with what they bought if lucky they won’t have the weapons to shoot most of it ✌️🤠👌
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I'm trying to keep from stockpiling, and only buying enough to shoot and have a bit on reserve, but the scarcity definitely seems to fuel purchases, like he said. I've been shooting less for fun and focused on honing my shooting skills. I've been pulling out a pellet rifle more these days because I can still train sight picture and trigger discipline, without the monetary cost or the expenditure of ammo.
What’s behind this???
Millions of people gearing up, in part.
Amen. Commies at our door step. The Chair is against the wall.
Add me to the numbers
@@Milkman3572000 I think you should switch around your comments, swap the words "Commie" and "Chair" in their respective sentences. ;-)
They're lying the real cause of the shortage is because they are mass producing for government and state contracts that means the military and the police get all the ammunition that they want or need before we get anything that's why there's no ammo on the shelves they have sold us down the damn River
My friends used to make fun of me...not any more
No Ammo April
Dont buy a single round in April. Let things catch up and choke the price gougers.
SPREAD THIS LIKE WILDFIRE!
I'm in!
Can we LITERALLY choke the price gougers?
Cuz I mean I'm in either way, but the idea of suffocating a hypebeast kind of makes me tingle in fun places.
@@TheZombieburner Lol no you can't choke the price gougers...but I like your energy.
🙋♂️ no ammo since last April and its still not caught up
24 hours a day and the warehouse is a ghost town.
I've worked at large metal foundries that run 24/7 365 and there is always at least 50+ people there no matter what time of day it is. Why are his shelves so empty? Where are the workers? If ammo is so hard to make why are more ammo manufacturers not poping up but hundreds of businesses came out over night to capitalize on the whole face mask market? Who are these international customers he's talking about and why are we selling to foreign governments? 4:01
Look behind them they are filling boxes and pallets. We don't run every part of our factory either. Those are probably overflow shelves and stuff is probably going onto pallets to ship that day. Looked liked that to me.
Probably shooting this video durning a shift change or break period. Liability also an issue.
They do walkthroughs during lunch breaks and company meetings where employees are in a break room.
I too call BS. If you ramped up and you’re making more ammo than ever then why are your “daily order shelves” empty?
I used to shoot at a plinking range twice a year maybe go through 500 rounds, now it's been 10 years since I went and felt like every shot was a financial hardship
currently got a huge restock on Freedom Seeds. Tryna to pump as much of them as possible to potential receptors. We do all we can for freedom. If interested leave me an email. And don’t feel offended if it takes me a while to reply, cuz they’re so many in line but I always do my best to satisfy the most.
@@gilestorphy3744 not offended at all just stay in the fight and hopefully when this mad men is out of the white house there might be something to rebuild
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@@ojongclement8461 thanks,
I'm shooting around 2000rnds a weekend I'm really feeling it in the wallet now
I remember when 5.56 was 15 cents a round lol
Ha! I remember when .22lr was $.02. Wait. That was 1-1/2 years ago.
I like your username
Wow. Im new so i didnt know what i was missing!
It sucks man. I make ok money, but am basically priced out of any real practice with all my guns. I just can't justify going out and shooting boxes and boxes of ammo every week or two in 3 different calibers. It costs around a 100$ in ammo just to take my main carry gun out for an hr or so of shooting as usually when I do find 9mm ball it's 25-30$ a box minimum. And over the last 5-6 years all the spots outside of town I used to go shoot at for free have been fenced of and signs put up. And I really can't afford to shoot my carry ammo because it's running far higher for smaller boxes. And that's if I can even find it, which I never can anyway. Every once and awhile since I'm friendly with the guys at the gunstore/indoor range, I can get them to hook me up with some of the 9mm range ammo they have hidden in back for when people buy guns if they have a little extra, and it's still around 15$ a box but it's rare that they can swing it. But really I have been shooting maybe once every 2-3 months, 1 box of ammo maybe two if I got lucky and only with the p365xl that I carry. I have even started carrying range ammo because it's been so long since I have been able to get any gold dot that I don't feel proficient enough shooting it out of such a small pistol anymore. I put a mag through it last time I shot and while I can still hit effectively enough at closer ranges, I am way off compared to the standard ball I have been able to shoot with far more often. I really hope that this ends soon and hopefully ammo pricesn go back down to a reasonable amount.
@@jayn8392 I hear every word you said loud and clear. Be diligent and keep a sharp eye for ammo at reasonable prices is my only advice.
Be a little patient? It's been 12 months. How much more patient do we need to be?
exactly.
About 4 more years.
Well remember when .22 LR was impossible to find. It took at least 2 years before you go to your local B&M store and grab a 50 round box.
@@jonkR96 If this country can survive that long. We can survive fools but not outright traitors and globalist sellouts seeking to destroy this country.
In good circumstances, standing up a new line for things is at least 12 months after you decide to "pull the trigger" on adding capacity. And that's not an easy decision since once you buy the equipment you're stuck with the cost so you better be sure the demand is gonna continue long enough for you to pay the equipment.
Price is an issue too. What used to be .20 or .22 a round is now a ridiculous.50 to over a dollar a round depending on caliber etc. I get it, but damn!
Some online retailers are doing $2 a round for .45 ACP JHP. That's not even including shipping. Insane
Some manufacturers are popping a little bit but its mostly stores. Like the dude said, people gotta pay their bills and if theyre behind and they have a commodity they can charge high for then they're going to.
Scarcity + Demand + Inflation. a terrifying combination.
I just paid almost $2 a round for hornady home defense .45acp
Dude I’m seeing 9mm at $1-$1.50 for Winchester and the like...crazy times
Ty Mr. Noir for putting out this video.
here's what we should do...... STOP BUYING AMMO AND EVERYTHING ELSE FROM cheaper than dirt!!!!!!!!!!!!
You got that right. I'm on their email list from years past and got an email this week bragging about 200 round buckets of .223 for almost $400, WTF?
True, I saw 100 rounds of .22 for $69. A big NOPE from me.
I don't buy ammo at inflated prices. That extra money never makes it back to the manufacturer where it's needed the most.
TRUE ! I was about say stop buying everything you see in a panic.
If things get "THAT BAD" were screwed regardless! And gouging people on the net! Like your gonna retire with that chump change!.sad deal people very sad.
I never have bought from them. Shitty company won't get my money 🤑
“You go into a store and see 3 boxes. You gonna buy all 3?”
Not at double or triple the price I’m not. Seeing 1000 CCI small rifle primers selling for $300-$400 is fucking nuts
Glad I bought them 2 years ago for under $100
I’ve seen .308 that was 20 bucks pre Covid. Saw one for double the price. Put that right back down and said I’m not that desperate
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Went to gun & ammo auction this past weekend.
500 round bricks of 22’s....$125-$180 depending on where the bidding took them. Plus buyer’s premium of 22% and tax. Guys were leaving with hand trucks full.
Will be a cold day in hell for me.
I’ll put them on the walls as dust collectors IF I run out of ammo. I’ll just limit my practice shooting to monthly instead of weekly. I’m set for life at that rate
Yeah I stopped shooting just to save it till it hopefully gets better .
The funniest price I seen was $1 per round (seriously) for .22lr and $70 for a box of 9mm XD
I just FINALLY even got the tooling kit to load 5.56 - .223, it's been a bitch to find anyone who had em in stock
The real question is how much of the supply is going to demo ranch
67%
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60 percent of the time it goes there every time.
lol
Thanks for the smile.
Thank you SO much for this video! I've wondered about this too and am thankful for you tracking this down and posting it!
My thought is that the stores are calling their friends and saying ”hey, we had a shipment of ammo arrive so come on by so you can horde more ammo.” Then I come in a they say “oh, we had shipment come in but just sold the last of it.”
Friends and family do usually have the benefit of getting first dibs, but unless the gun store is unscrupulous they are not giving all the ammo to their friends. Hell they may not even be giving it to them at cost anyways. The supply they are getting is limited from before January 2020 levels, and they have more people than ever trying to buy stuff, you do the math.
I think that too because thats what i would do if i worked at cabelas.. shit i put in a application at cabelas so i can do that!!
Not the stores, the people working at the stores. And I can confirm that this does happen, because I've recorded multiple instances of it and reported those employees to the stores' respective corporate offices. Most of them are no longer employed with those stores.
Anybody find it hard to buy reloading supplies? Slugs primers gun powder and shell casings?
Right now there's also a bit of a secondary market on ammo and people out of work/working from home. You'll see people lining up at any store on delivery day waiting for them to open to either buy ammo for themselves/friends or to sell on a secondary market at a mark up.
Glad you did this one, Colion. This is a really weird situation. Makes me wonder if the base employees are grabbing the ammo and selling it online, etc.
Nah if that was me I'd take the ammo and keep it lol
@@tinononit8623 They monitor their inventory. if they noticed employees taking ammo they would be fired.
I know dealers who are having friends grab it for them directly off the truck.
@@HardBlues They don't have to steal it. Just buy it before it hits the shelves.
Federal ammunition has a store at the plant where their employees can buy from. The store is closed and has been closed for quite some time.
We need more new manufacturers. Especially ones that concentrate on "common" calibers like 9mm, .45 ACP, 5.56 and 7.62 NATO.
Hmmm, sounds like a good business opportunity!
Those are the most popular rounds I'm seeing. Like to see more older rounds and hunting rounds. Sabots are mythical.
@@jackflackk3153 it is! look at AAC they are making a killing selling match quality ammo direct to consumer 40% less than their competitors! i wouldnt own a 300 blk gun if it wast for them!
Thanks for investigating this issue! Your the Man!
This is somewhat true. Law Enforcement and government agencies are also buying up tons more ammo from the same suppliers the public does.
Funny, that's been disproven over and over again. Conspiracy theories are retarded.
@@LibertyFirst1789 and you are too, who do you think makes that 9mm in the handguns that police use? The same exact people who make some of the 9mm you see on a Cabela's shelf.
@@cleveland2286 you claimed they are buying "tons MORE", then prove it. How much did they buy before and how much are they buying now? You have _no clue._ Your comment is bullshit.
@@LibertyFirst1789 That is not a conspiracy theory, you should look up the definition, the police buying ammunition is not that outlandish yet you are here screaming like a little girl. How hard is it to act mature and try to debate what he said? Where are your sources? This is taught in middle school.
Plus, I never claimed it, "your comment is bullshit". I guess reading is beyond the capabilities of the average youtube user.
@@cleveland2286 Prove that the government has been "buying tons MORE" ammunition. Lets see *ONE* source that proves the government is buying any _more_ than they ever bought!
_Conspiracy theory: Hypothetical speculation that is untrue or outlandish._ *Yep, it fits*
Prove what you claim to "know" or STFU.
You would think if they are “cranking it out” at least one little box would have come sliding down the shelf.
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Probably on their meal break 🤔
Right? didn't he say they were working 24/7?....
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Not when it's going out as fast as they make it.
Went to range last week. First time in several months. 1 hour of range time ($12), 2 paper targets and 200 rounds of 9mm = $160.00. I couldnt believe it. What worries me isnt the long term availability. Its the fact it will likely not come down in price after the supply issue flattens out.
I imagine it's more complicated than we think. My brother sells lumber which has quadrupled and the pricing is all based on many factors and there is always the delay catch up
Why would it come down??? They see that ppl are still paying so they'll just keep raising for that sole reason.
@@billy_barry Once they get it back normalized, then yes it will go down. There is no way that people will continue paying these prices. The newness will wear off, more people will begin to realize shooting while fun isn't as exciting, and reloaders will have enough products. It may take another year or two, but things will balance out. The main issue is inflationary pressure to keep price high. It isn't the profits driving the costs, it's not the demand, it's the loss of revenue for 18 months so many resellers took on the chin alongside the inflation squeeze on ancillary shipping and taxation increases.
The fact that every generation has multiple ammo shortages and the lack of willingness of ammo company’s to look to ways to fix this is mind boggling
Nothing mind boggling about it at all. No company is going to build extra factories in anticipation of a shortage only to let them sit idle while waiting for a shortage. No company is going to produce massive surpluses of product during normal business times just to stockpile it in warehouses waiting for a shortage.
Factories are expensive, warehouses are expensive, employees to man factories and warehouses are expensive. They would probably lose more money in the down years keeping all of those facilities active than they would make during times like right now.
Did you not pay attention during Trump when there was such a big ammo surplus that companies were losing money? Companies are not going to cater to the short term, they are looking towards long term survival.
Ok
Every generation? Don’t you mean every Democrat president Elected this century?
@@DaveSmith-cp5kj Ammo shortage happened under Trump. Get your history right. Covid lockdown and BLM/Antifa rioting were used to scare the pubic into buying guns and hoarding ammo.
That warehouse seems pretty relaxed and empty for one that is working “24 hours a day”
increasing staff, increasing equipment, maximizing supplies.... yet as a consumer I cant get my hands on anything, all my local mom and pop FFLs cant get their hands on anything, big-name businesses around me cant get their hands on anything.... and I'm in PA. such bullshit.
@@fordsrule35 its always lunch time when your company has a monopoly on the ammo market
@@jakeradogna2121 Where do you think all the toilet paper went last March?
Probably on lunch time bc it would be a better time to film. Machinery and forklifts are distractions during interviews.
@@jakeradogna2121 same here dude. The only things I can get are weird rounds like 30 Luger
I'm calling B.S. on this. If people haven't been able to buy ammo for the last 9 to 12 months, and the ammo manufacturers are putting out as fast as possible, where is the ammo going?
Especially as going from 50 million to 58 million gun owners is an increase of 16%. You can't convince me that they all started hoarding at the same time as well. They probably don't want to admit how many components and materials were really coming from overseas.
Government
Fat sheepdogs
Probably to the people that have more money than you and use that influence/power to get what they want first.
@@ZeroFudgeGiven : My Academy has 0 zero on the shelf. Been like that for months.
Colion , you should have asked him more about his "international business"
100%!
Bet his international business pays more
@@hendo338 Do you realize that gun laws around the world are pretty stringent. Here in the Baltics to get a gun you have to (1) go to your doctor and get a certificate saying you have no mental health issues (2) take a government course and pass the test (3) you have to go to a government range and pass a competency test (4) you have to take all of the above documents to the police and apply including why you need a gun (5) getting the police certificate you may now go to a gun store and buy a gun. You need a certificate to buy ammo. 15 years ago I walked into a gun store in the Czech Republic and I saw a customer use his certificate to return a rifle scope and buy a different one with new rings AND buy 20 bullets which were counted out from an inventoried box. Think about Walmart purchases in the states about 3 years ago.
I knew there’d be some narrow-minded jerk who picked up on that. What do you mean International business? You think the US are the only ones who should be allowed product? Every other country is in the same boat. Maybe they should take your opinion. Good luck shooting anything when the bulk of the best powder the US uses comes from “International”!
American ammunition is quite popular in South Africa. We have locally produced 9mm and 12ga ammo, but for most other calibers, imported American ammo is standard.
An excellent way of keeping me well informed Tky
“Making more than ever!, Cranking it out!” But where does that go? I check ALOT of sites DAILY!!! None to be found. Where is all of that CRANKED OUT ammo being sold at?
The US Government is preparing too. Biden has to finish the job in the Middle East that Obama left unfinished...
@@stereodreamer23 i think his handlers are trying to finish the job at home. That moron doesn't know what day of the week it is.
Law enforcement buy
commercial ammo. Us military does not. It produces its own at lake city ammuniion plant near independence, Missouri. Remington arms was contracted to manage site. They do not sell to the public.
Going to the guards around the capitol.
@@klerixil8673 think about what he said recently, "wh-wha-what am i doing here?"'Joe Biden, 2021!
Colion seems more nervous here than he is when he’s on the news in front of millions. SOMEBODY has crush on Daddy ammo 😜😂
I'm not gay, but a box of 9mm is a box of 9mm
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@@raddasawaddasa7598 Thanks, they have it in stock, and they are not scalping. GOOD DEAL!!!!
These ammo prices are highly oppressive of ammo-sexuals.
He said ammo-sexual!! whats that mean?
I feel violated and like my gender isn't receiving recognition nor funding. I'm triggered. We deserve a safe space where we can express ourselves that's fully funded(range). More funding(ammo) from being denied access to ammo thru covid.
@@shonuffizhere5670 Ammo-sexuals are quickly surpassing gamers as the most oppressed group.
👈😂🤣😂 this guy
@@jesuschristislord77733 there's 76 genders and they trying to pass the equality act right NOW. Why isn't ammosexuals included? It's our turn to be recognized . We suffered an pandemic. We need funding to supply our safe spaces. 🤔 Plus it's illegal to discriminate against folks expressing their sexuality.
Great job Colion, hopefully you helped clear up some misconceptions about the ammo shortage.
The last ammo crunch, when nobody could find .22, but everything else was at least in stock to some degree, I called the largest ammo supplier on the east coast and I was told by their sales manager that it would take about the next 12-14 months to get .22 back to where it was and readily available... This time is different.. .45acp, .40 cal, .38, .357 mag, as well as every rifle round is hardly avail anywhere and when it is, it is outrageously priced... when I make it past this drought, however long that might be, I will never get caught short ever again... I thought I was in pretty good shape for what I had before the ammo crisis hit this time but even conserving as much as I have and highly reducing the amount I shoot it still starts to disappear quick, plus it could very well be far longer than anyone can predict as to when ammo will be readily availability again, and at a somewhat normal price... when the time comes I am going to invest heavily and go all in, or as much as I can so I will not even be the least bit worried if things go wonky again and I can breeze through about 3-4 years if need be and be flush with all calibers.... my advice would be that if you think you are all set for a while then go and buy at least double of what you already have when the price is right... it’s bad enough that it’s tough to even find now, but the price is what is hurting most people now too.... I know people who reload and have been doing so for years, and all of them tell me that even reloading supplies are scarce now and prices have shot through the roof... one guy I know hasn’t been able to find primers for over 3 months.... I never thought it would get this bad... I’ve been shooting for over 40yrs... I’ve never seen anything even close to what we are going through now.... at this rate ammo will be worth more than precious metals and stones.... Trump should open up an ammo factory!!!!... that would be a YUGE win on many levels for all of us 👍😬😎🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
After the last couple of ammo crunches, I started minimizing calibers I need. 5.56 & 7.62x51. (Son does have a 7.62x54R and a couple of unopened cans). 9mm & .45. 12g of various types. Used to have .38/.357Spl, .380, .40, .22, .223, and on and on to feed. Much easier to stock up now. Even easier after that boating accident a while back...
Is it just me or was every single answer as vague as possible and didn’t really give any information
Classic higher management technique
It's not just you. Ammo manufactures are taking advantage of the increased demand, which they could easily meet by increasing production, to artificially raise prices. This "shortage" is on purpose - they are price-gouging.
YEP. Especially for the government response. I would expect Colion to have pressured that more for a better answer
Because the answer is obvious. We are all hoping for some magic explanation and there isn’t one. What needs to happen is the American public needs to realize the real hold back. Help each other and never trust your government. Yet.
Dude is lying
We haven’t had ammo in over a year, this is killing the shooting industry. This is not a consumer issue it doesn’t add up
it’s also worth noting that most states have had lockdown orders in place for nearly a year. I also find it hard to believe it’s the consumers who are the issue here.
It is a hoarding issue. Just like with toilet paper and hand sanitizer at the beginning of the pandemic. People find out when gun shops get their shipments in and then clean the place out. I know people with basements full of ammo. There are guys who go wait in line at the store on the day they know the store gets their shipment, then they buy a whole bunch of ammo just to try and flip it for double the price (or more). During the pandemic this has been happening in other industries as well, not just the ammo/firearm industry. People are scared, so they buy way more than they need and sit on it.
@@teledunc they should have been prepared a long time ago.
It certainly does not add up...even if you are first in the door in the morning.. the shelves are empty... no one has the opportunity to hoarde...the product is not going to the stores.. so.. where??
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i hated when walmart stopped selling a lot of popular calibers, my local one was like my hidden personal stash. even when 22 was sold out a few years back they always had a few boxes.
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WalMart pissed me off with that. Ow they are all self check here……… I changed to a more expensive store.
I’ve quit shooting all together because I’m done playing the gun industry’s game. Prices are absolutely ridiculous and I’m not paying a dollar per round for 9mm. I think these rascals and the government are in cahoots to stop gun owners from training and being prepared. Glad I stocked up years ago.
unfortunately i feel the same way. i used to shoot quite a lot. been stocked up but once the prices shot up. no thanks. i’m in storage mode until i need it.
If you haven't notice price are going up in other industries, not just firearms. In the electronics industry, there's are also, shortages aside from stupid scaplers buying everything up. Also, in the video game industry, price are jumping up for first party games as well. Supply and demand is a bitch! Ain't it? 😁
same here man ill start again when ammo is cheap again
Unless I can replace what I shoot I won’t go shooting. I haven’t found anything since the election.
Stop with the conspiratorial nonsense, it's called supply and demand. Nothing in the market has a fixed price, it doesn't work that way. Once supply and demand reach equilibrium again, prices will fall. Right now would be the best time for a bushy-eyed entrepreneur to start an ammunition company.
Next time ask some tough questions. Like, what percent does go to the government? Who are these dealers and what are they doing with the ammo? (Are they sitting on it to drive up the price?) Why not sell direct to the public and prioritize those sales?
The last question is simple - direct sales are almost impossible for a company like that. That would require an entirely new branch of the company and hundreds if not thousands of new employees. Almost all manufacturing companies operate through distributors solely because of that issue - the workforce is the largest "cost" of any company. It's an unfortunate reality - but there's a logic behind not dealing direct. As far as government sales, they exist but they're not the "OMG government is hoarding ammo to kill us!" nonsense. They have contractual obligations with a variety of departments, agencies, and foreign institutions. Unlike retail sales - contractual obligations must be met. It's not something you just arbitrarily cancel because times are tough. A company which cancels or violates contracts will disappear shortly after because no one will do business with them. I'm not making excuses for any company - but it's simply not as easy as people like to make it out. I would have appreciated some info on the distributors - but that's also not something under control of the ammo company themselves. That's where a lot of the nastiness is happening - but that's also basic capitalism.
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Then these contracts that their "obligated" to first, get crazy low prices and we have to pick up the difference. I still say, I smell B.S. There's more to this story, that we don't have access to.
The guy in the video explains where it all goes and just how their working 24 7 to get it to us. Its all in the video if you watch it in it's entirety.
Some are selling directly and still well over twice the price. Yup, they're paying overtime but I can see no true justification for for 2 and 3 times the usual cost
@@glennphillips2393 the video does not say what percent goes to the gov, it does not say who the “dealers” are and it does not say what the “dealer” are doing with the ammo. If you have those answers please reply.
You wanted more gun owners, you got them! Of course those people need ammo, too, especially with those riots and all!
And to stay safe from the insurrectionists (domestic terrorist) sympathizers
@@kkrummelrhs BLM and Antifa need to be lined up and shot, i agree.
You got too stfu!
@@timothycontreras8424 No, I didn't. I live in Germany, where the amount of gun owners grows, but slowly and steadily.
I call BS in the "new owners buying and shooting" explanation.
1) There were over 100M gun owners before. Even 8M new owners would be just 8% increase, and there were no ammo since April when there were no even 1M new owners
2) Range next to me just went out of business,in the middle of record gun sales. They had no ammo to sell for months, and who is shooting $2/round 9mm except for government employees?
Really great video. I loved how transparent he was.
We live in America, maybe more ammo companies should be started.
So go start one...
More definitely will. However, as with every business on the planet, there's a huge up front cost to start
as i understand it’s got nothing to do with more companies. the raw materials arnt available.
My great grandfather had own ammo company in a coffee can on a shelf in the garage, it's called learning to reload but I wouldn't recommend watching a TH-cam video and trying to do it yourself.
Still done today by guy's and girl's who don't just own guns but actually know enough about them to want to sit at a press putting their own bullets together although those supplies are running short also so your new company would probably not have enough material for start up anyway.
Like you said though it is America the land of if you really want it done right do it yourself. 👍
@@dpz9872 I don't understand so many people starving for ammo, and yet they are resistant to handloading and doing things like making your own primers.
I call B.S. It's NEVER on the shelves.
My .308 rounds used to be $1 a round which was expensive, now they're double that. They're price gouging the shit out of us.
Are you kidding? there’s the normal 50 millions gun owners, then you up the number of owners by 20 percent and then throw on the fact everyone is panic buying it. It’s not hard to understand, it’s on the shelves but it just goes extremely fast, same way with guns, manufactures are at record breaking number, I’m talking 3-4 times normal production and they still can’t keep up.
@@yourface3154 did you hear anything he said? New equipment, staffing at record levels. That costs$$$
@@shugman3090 You know what makes money? Record sells..... Oh, and price gouging.
Too many gun owners are way too paranoid and just ignorant to the facts. @kdeupser and YourFace open your eyes and stop thinking everyone is out to get you. @Your Face of course the price is going to go up its called Supply and Demand, inflation, and other variables that you or I do not know about. Take a basic economic course and you will begin to understand it.
Years ago (1973) there was a sugar shortage.The price of sugar skyrocketed. What you could buy for $0,50 rose to about $3.60 for a 5 lb bag. This continued for forever a month! I happened to work for a major food chain at the time in Norfolk, VA. All through the shortage, my store continued to receive its normal allotment but I could only put out 10 bags on the shelf daily. A similar shortage occurred about the same of foreign oil! This lasted for at least 6 weeks. My Navy vessel was doing weekly training off the coast of Virginia. It was observed that many large tankers gasoline and oil was anchored about 13 miles off the coast-just far enough off the coast not to be seen. So, I take what has been said here with a grain of salt. How many warehouses have been rented until the price of ammo becomes normal? Follow the money...
Always follow the money, and take everything with a grain of salt, but most importantly do the research on what we are being told yourself! It's the only way not to be lied to!
Follow the money...best.advice.ever.
@@thesecatsarecrazy567 Always follow the money. It has a story to sell you.
Same thing going on with wood right now. wood has risen over 300% for some products, but the mills will not buy wood for processing or only buy small amounts. Wood suppliers have plenty of processed wood in stock wherever you go, (at least where I live) No shortage here just ridiculous prices, and I work for a lumber mill. It's called price fixing or market manipulation, but what can we do, our government is letting this happen regardless of who is in office. so yeah FOLLOW THE MONEY.
Did the same thing with coffee!
GR8! As one of Robert Heinlein’s characters said “An armed society is a *polite* society.”
Not if I have a faster draw than you hommie 😁😂
We are the most armed society there is and we aren't very polite...Do you people ever think about the crap that comes out of your mouths?
@@jeffwhitney3369 you people? You racist!
@@jeffwhitney3369 Wrong on both counts. Switzerland is more heavily armed - And the Swiss are more polite. Kindly think before you talk...
You completely missed the point of the book. It showed the opposite if I remember correctly
Maybe I'm just an idiot, but why am I left with more doubt after hearing these guys explain the situation.
Somethings up
Same here!
What would satisfy you?
Try being specific.
@servant of jesus If you think the government is buying ammo you search for beta.SAM should be a gov site and see all the active and inactive contracts that the military puts out. Just put into keywords ammo types and there you go. Its not a secret and this is how almost all contracts if not all gets filled to my knowledge.
I would like to know how much ammo the government is buying. And where are all of the reloading components? They are none to be found but by people who hoarded and are now selling at twice the amount
Richard, I think you underestimated the profit margin these hoarders have in mind. A few months ago I went to a well known gun site and checked on prices for small pistol and small rifle primers. Last year I could get a brick (5,000 primers, any day, every day) for about $180. Now it will cost you up to $1,500 for the same brick, much more than your "double the price", for sure.
And yes I agree what kind of shennanigans do these companies have with gov't sales? And it was really troubling to hear him say international sales. The heck with them, focus on us Americans.
Stay safe my friend and stay strong!
@@bobsue3639 I agree, they need to slash government and international sales, and sell to US citizens first. Once the demand slows start ramping up sales to the feds and international orders.
The main ingredient used in all small-arms ammunition propellants is nitrocellulose. The Radford Army Ammunition Plant in Virginia is the sole producer of this essential ingredient for all propellants used throughout the Army’s ammunition industrial base. Radford has an acid-concentrator facility that produces the nitric and sulphuric acids that, when combined with cellulose, make nitrocellulose. Ninety-nine percent of all small-arms ammunition used in Afghanistan and Iraq contains nitrocellulose produced at this facility.
Finally, the primer in most cartridges is made from over 13 different chemicals, which are mixed at the Lake City plant. Lake City manufactures the primers for all small-arms ammunition produced at its facility. ATK continues to seek additional sources of supply for the primer mix chemicals. All suppliers are based in the United States. However, the U.S. suppliers obtain these chemicals from Canada, Europe, Mexico, India, Brazil, and China as well as the United States.
Small-Arms Ammunition Production and Acquisition: Too Many Eggs in One Basket?
Twice as much on so.e 4 times as much on others. Boxes of 22 that were 33 bucks are now 160
i horded and i have sold nothing thats why i can shoot what i want when i want this has happened before and i swore i would never be put in that position again and i am not now and will never be because i stocked up when things were available like primers and powder and bullets learn from your mistakes i didnt hord to make money i hoarded so i can protect my family and the constitution
He should’ve been a press secretary he spoke for seven minutes and still really didn’t answer the question! Everywhere I go there is a one or two box limit and it’s hard to believe that there’s that many new gun owners! I’m glad I already had a good stock before all this shit started !!
Its new gun owners and existing owners are stockpiling. The people who used to only keep a couple boxes on hand and would just buy when they shot are now stockpiling. Multiple that times millions. Also i think more people are trying to shoot/train more...i know guys that already trained are having to train less but the large number of people who before shot 30 rounds once a year are all trying to go out shooting more often
Everyone freaking out about the shortage and buying everything they can are leading to the condition that caused the situation in the first place.
Some people are hoarding and re-selling at exorbitant prices. I feel like if your not in the inner ring of someone who works at a major distributor or retailer your gonna be out of the loop. I’m certainly not opposed to a free-market but it does seem quite annoying. I don’t know the exact numbers but these would be close: 50 million gun owners and 10 billion rounds produced in a year is only 200 rounds a person. That’s total to stockpile and shoot for an entire year. Now throw in some middle men buying up a few thousand rounds here or there, or maybe even sitting on a few hundred thousand rounds and trying to sell at ridiculous prices online. That and just the average person here or there that is somehow able to build there own small stock-pile by adding say 500-1000 rounds on top of what they had pre-pandemic. You can see how it would be extremely sparse out there. I’m hoping they just keep churning out ammo and eventually people are either semi-satisfied with their personal stocks or unwilling/unable to buy massive mark-ups. Then it will slowly unwind. Honestly I’d just like to have shooting as a hobby again...
@@JamesJamersonIsAGod The numbers sound about right to me. I've shot 500 rounds in a weekend competition, and shooting a hundred or so just practicing on a weekend wasn't unusual. Haven't shot since I got my .22 AR conversion kit 8 months ago. I invested in reloading instead of buying new ammo, as I saved my brass most every time I shot. Glad I did that.
He's a company rep. It's akin to a politician. Speak 3000 words, but don't give a reason or answer.
Thanks for standing up for 2A and us I enjoy your videos
I puked 1/2 way through.
"we are busting it out" While walking in a dead silent warehouse...
exactly. let me tell all these day dreamers something. under no circumstance does production stop for an inquiry on why production is so low.
Warehouse and factory aren't the same thing. A warehouse is where you store the accumulated products you haven't sold yet. It's going out the door as fast as it's made.
@@jeffreygunn3530 EXACTLY!
@@jeffreygunn3530 Much like farms, we're getting seperated from how factories work
Govt controls how many primers they will receive. People need to search for the info. Read , Small-Arms Ammunition Production and Acquisition: Too Many Eggs in One Basket?
For a company that’s non stop working 24 hours a day that factory sure is quiet and empty.
Can you SMELL it? The BS?
Because they have no boats from China with raw ingredients to make bullets would be my guess.
@@oldmanfunky4909 exactly, the raw materials have been choked on purpose, operation covid19
@@steveharper5368 Fair point, Covid has hit everywhere.
That’s the shipping area where everything is boxed up to be picked up and sent out. Does UPS and FedEx deliver packages to your house any hour of the day? Normally only a couple of pickups a day that ship out for the compete orders.
"We're running 24 hours" as they stroll through a quiet factory with no employees?!?
My thoughts too. " we are cranking it out non stop". What's that shelf behind you?
" that's our daily fill shelf"
.... but it's empty even though your are cranking it out???
That’s probably the distribution area.
"Hey, guys. We have this journalist who wants to make a video interview about the ammo situation. You can take half an hour off, so we can record this without the sound of an active ammo factory messing up the recording"
Not that weird.
This is the warehouse. The manufacturinn segment is in another section. It would be nice to see it.
You can literally see them working in the far right background.
Had an issue during muzzleloader season at my local Walmart trying to get supplies for season , and learned that they were only allowed to set out powder one week then primers the next week and then bullets the following week but were not allowed to set out all supplies at the same time . Due to orders given to them from headquarters, ( US government) .
I miss the $5.99 a box 55g American eagle days . I refuse to pay 17.99 where I live now. Glad I was buying boxes a week for 3 years straight till now
he never admitted how much is going to the gov all he said is more than 20% to civilians , thats not much for us
Exactly
Govts, foreign trade and contracts......
Sounded like the government shipments aren't out of the ordinary. He made it clear that the supply and demand issue is due to demand on the civilian side.
One thing that wasn’t brought up was the primer shortage we are facing.
Around 2014 I bought enough reloading supplies to last a lifetime. I reload everything.
Exactly. I’m sure these new gun owners magically became handloaders immediately.
@@reachvictoria3386 there are a lot of people reloading now. Not to far back you couldn't reload common hand gun ammo for you could buy it. Not anymore.
I wasn’t speaking specifically for reloaders. I was talking in general. We have a serious shortage for both manufacturers and comercial loading.
@@rogerwilco99 yep, some I can reload several times and others I can't.
Thank you, Colion! Always good info and wise gun advice. Appreciate it, my friend. Keep it coming...
I hope this ammo shortage comes to an end in the near future so I can get back to target practice in my backyard, but I'm glad I stocked up. It's probably been quite hard for the newbies, I imagine.
@Alexander Wait until the Russian ammo ban sets in. Not a matter of if but a matter of when then watch the prices skyrocket to over $2 a round.
@@johnmerck5883 just call around your local establishments, stay away from the places that are selling a 50 round box of 9mm for $70.00 that’s outrages but people are still buying it. I’ve heard of 25 HP rounds of 9mm go for $75.00 - $100.00
I wish he would have asked " what % of your ammo is going to gov't purchases?"
Very little just remember all the real ammo plants are owned by the government anyway but contractor run. I'm not even American and know more about your industry. 7millon new shooters buy 100 rounds each , that's an extra 700,000,000 rounds bought across the USA.
@@thehopperhopes6365 I don't think E A revealed anything in this comment that would give you even a hint of what he/she knows about the industry. They simply expressed an interest in hearing the Nosler guy's response to that question. It seems like you are trying to sound smart but coming across as the opposite.
@@thehopperhopes6365 stfu !
@@thehopperhopes6365 what "real ammo plants" are you referring too?
The government buys - hollow point bullets - that are not available to the average gun owner... the government only buys the less lethal ammo for practice...
The best way to make your Guns USELESS is to make AMMO
IMPOSSIBLE to GET
yup
Tell that to the hoarders...
Time to start using them as clubs!!
Chris Rock said that same thing years ago.
Desk weight
Very informative video. Helpfully and thanks
I’m surprised he didn’t mention costs of raw materials and shipping, especially during the pandemic, and in response to trade deals
yeah im sure biden will make great trade deals considering he has never had to run a business and hes being paid off by the chicoms, (china communists)
@@positiveenergy960 man, GTFO, anyone who has half a brain cell and knows google knows by now that y'all are scammers
@@fifthward1983 oh that was one of the first things biden did was change back the trade deals especially with China. You don't hear harley davidson bitchin anymore do ya?
Yeah that never comes up! They also never admit that many of the primer manufacturers are overseas and those deliveries are disrupted, or that we import most of the lead and that is disrupted as well.
He's not telling us everything.
Just my 2 cents
you 2 cents is worth millions. he's a liar.
Maybe it’s the international business. I wonder what those allocations look like.
You can tell he's just giving his worthless words. Attempting to put a reason to them not making the ammo.
@@danor6812 EXACTLY. If they were working 24/7 like he said, his shelves wouldn't be bare.
You're wrong. He's not telling us *anything!*
How about just ceasing all government sales while there are any existing attempts by them to curtail the rights of the people?
Without Americans consuming. They will lose a giant chunk of earth's ammo business
No local, state, or federal ammo sales. I'm with it.
How about the legally binding contracts the ammunition producers have signed to provide ammunition to Federal, State, Tribal, and local government agencies??
He said they are still filling international orders also.
Govt sales are almost completely under contract. Backing out would cost bigtime.
Thanks for putting this together. Answers a lot of questions
NOT saying he is LYING.. BUT.... When is the last time you have been told the 100% truth by any CEO?
Hell he could be telling the entire truth as far as he knows. Sure maybe he's only selling like 5% to the government on paper, but the government could still buy like an additional 40% through dummy corporations and he wouldn't even know for sure due to it looking like a normal purchase order from "Sportsman & Outdoors Man LLC." or some other such named generic corporation that has no stores or way to sell to the consumer and is actually owned by the government. Not saying this is what is happening, but just one possibility.
Yeah these videos aren't worth much.
His body language says he's being honest.
What would satisfy you?
Be specific.
The fact that Colion is willing to lend his personal credibility to this guys message means a lot. He's got skin in the game because if we were to find out the guy was lying, Colion knows he'd see a corresponding drop in his own subscribers. I trusted Nosler's message a LOT more than I did Federal's because of this.
I'm glad I bought lots of ammo 3 years ago and didn't shoot many.
Your one of the few smart ones.
My family has loaded our own for generations. They have zero clue how many rounds WE THE PEOPLE have stockpiled.
@@rogerwilco99 ".... must have IQ's less than 80....." or the "voting" machines "counted" the vote for those traitorous politicians
As Stalin once said (I think) "It's not the people whose vote counts, it's the people who count the vote does."
Smart u nva know , nxt Ima get magazines so I can just shoot and load
Now I know why when I buy reloading supplies it's always at lease 1k bullets and 1k primers.
My son-in-law is one of these new gun owners you speak of. Guess what? When he bought his snubby .38 he went to 6 different places and hasen't been able to find a single round of ammo in 3 months.
Welcome to 2021
I have a family member who is in charge of training for the police department where I am and he handles all the orders for them , he told me he has no idea when they will get another shipment of ammo. They don’t even have an approximate time frame for when it’s coming. It’s also one of the larger police departments in the country.
Hells yeah mane dat means dem poleece occifers ain’t finna have no ammo so im gon hit me sum dem licks n shyt yu know wut I mean crip ??
Not even shotgun shells in the stores anymore, which sucks since a double barrel shotgun being shot in the air is the most effective home defense weapon
LMAO, that's funny.
Buy a pump action, that way all you have to do is rack it.
Only shells at my local store are bird shot or plastic BBs. No slugs or 00 buck.
Well I want to know who is buying all the #8 shot. That stuff sucks for home defense... and I want to just shoot some clays. I guess all the shotgun ammo manufacturers are making $1 per round 00 buck versus $.20/round #8.
🙄😆😂🤣
This is how far we are behind in manufacturing, not just ammo
That is a great observation, thank you.
Most of the cost is for regulations. We found out that if you manufacture in the US it's a 32% operating cost increase, then if you were to send the parts to China and then have the product sent back.
It's a direct assualt on US manufacturing, bottom line
Agreed. We are falling behind in manufacturing.
Best. Comment. So. Far.
And China will pay off our politician’s to keep it that way
It’s all about supply and demand. They say they are doing their best to “crank out” product, but why would they, when they can slow supply and make double or triple the profit on each item sold? Profit is always the bottom line in the corporate world. You can hear crickets in that factory during this interview...
Well, they probably did stop for the interview, or how would you hear them during the interview?
hmmm
Economics doesn't work that way. Shortages mean they are not maximizing profits. Profit maximization occurs when supply exactly matches demand, so they are actually losing money (in opportunity cost of course)
That's a bit silly Scott. Logic would tell you that you make zero dollars on products you don't sell.
@@HouTexHemi Wrong.
I'm glad you did this video and that he was straight forward with you. Yes finding some calibers are extremely difficult to find and not talking about odd ball stuff. I'm on 5-6 different companies notice list, 7mm08 140 or 150 gr lead bullets . If you speak to that CEO again please ask. Very good job on this video.
I'm a little skeptical. He sounded like he wasn't completely forthcoming.
I agree, most stores I have been going to have limited box purchases to 2 for the last year. The shortage started over a year ago and they have not come close to expanding enough.
@@Tazer120 The stores I have been to have said they can't get the ammo
@@Tazer120 you have to think, if they expand and buy more equipment and train more people and when people eventually settle down and stop panic buying those companies will then be too large and the demand tanks and they lay people off. Im sure they expanded a little but pretty much just staying the same normal output just waiting on people to stop buying like they are. Same thing im doing, i have enough that i dont need to buy during this crazy time and will wait out the panic buying till prices come down and start to go shooting again at the range.
Agreed
And the ammunition industry is being cautious, as they are also planning for the worse...that the anti-gun movement within tne US government IS planning to legislate, litigate, limit, tax and restrict ammunition sales and possession across the entire country, to the point that the average American, let alone those with below average or fixed incomes, will not be able to afford or possess firearms or ammunition. There is no incentive increase production if the only ones who will be legally and financially able to buy ammunition are local and federal government agencies.
I'll be so glad to get back to shooting on a regular basis. Thank you guys for working so hard to get us back to our normal. God bless you, God bless us, God bless the U.S.A
It seems so long ago that we were shooting whenever the hell we felt like it and buying ammo on the cheap every time we left the house. I'm glad I did that now but you never have enough ammo and it's painful to shoot right now knowing that the ammunition is usually irreplaceable and if you do find some it's 3 times the pre-covid price
"Doing the best we can" sounds just peachy but does nothing for the consumer trying to buy a box of 20 9mm rounds that isn't selling for as much as $65 advertised by hoarding lowlifes. It is IMPOSSIBLE to find a box in any retailers shelves !
They love the current environment and will do everything to keep it the same in fact i seriously doubt they ramp up anything in fact other companies like Rolex manipulated demand by cutting production intentionally and made millions off of it.
9mm is everywhere, bought 1000rds last night
You aren’t looking hard enough. Bough x amount of ammo for 50 cents a round, just recently, online.
It’s the same toilet paper syndrome
Buy from your trusted reloader.
Thanks Colion for a video clarifying things.
Wish he would’ve gave a hard number that goes to the public and the government.
Exactly!!!!!!
Without numbers he is just shining us.
He's a liar.
Precisely. Kinda avoided the actual percentage. He laughed off the idea of government having a 20% stake, but didn't bother to clarify if that number was higher or lower.
@@2ndamendment1776 The wording indicates it's lower, though that could be just like 1% lower.
He can't because that's confidential information. You do not what your competitors to know how much government business you are getting. Some government contracts go as far as to legally prohibit a seller from giving any details about the contract/order under threat it will be immediately revoked.
I like how the interview was just them casually walking through the empty aisle saying they don't have inventory because there is nothing on the shelves.
EXACTLY!!! You get it.
There's nothing on the shelves because they sold it to distributors to sell to dealers. That day and every day.
and absolutely zero employees busy busy in the entire vid
@@johnpike5836 Probably because they're all on the manufacturing side and they didn't want a bunch of people getting in the way of the video shoot.
what pisses me off is the retailers are charging 2-3x what the ammo should normally cost when you do find a place that has it.
That's called supply and demand. TP went up in price too
Yeah it’s all supply and demand until a regular person buys hand sanitizer and sells it for a profit.
It’s called price gouging
Some are, some arent.
Academy (when they have ammo) its still the same price.
Small business? they get what they can get for whatever price.
That wasn't an interview, that was a sales pitch.