Current Ammo Situation, November 2020

Long story short: go to ammoseek.com to find ammo. It won’t be at 2019 prices, but it shows what’s in stock and can be sorted by $/round. Cheap ammo is best, but expensive ammo beats no ammo.

Dudes, it’s bad out there. It’s worse than 2013, and I never thought that was possible. Even my old standby gunbot.net can’t help me. In the worst parts of 2013 Gunbot was able to dig up some ammo. I’ve used it a few times to grab some .327 mag for my LCRx in the intervening years and never had a problem. But now? I just spent 20 minutes clicking links to ammo and everything was out of stock, pages unavailable, or the price was higher than listed.

I work at a gun range and lots of people have told me that we are the only ones in town with anything in stock. We are very strict with our sales restrictions and it’s the only reason we’ve got anything to sell at all.

I’ve also seen quite a few people trying to find their first gun, so it’s very important that we have some in stock. Imagine being in today’s environment and not having a gun you feel comfortable using. Yikes.

I don’t have good news for the immediate future, either.

If the projected president-elect gets confirmed, he or his replacement will most certainly try to ram through some sort of assault weapon ban. Guns and ammo will not go back to normal if that happens. What will be the new normal if that happens depends entirely upon what they accomplish.

If the current president retains his office for another term, the left will basically explode. Imagine the George Floyd riots, but nationwide and 2x-5x the intensity. Guns and ammo won’t go back to normal until all of that is over, and who knows how long that would take.

If you have to get ammo now, you have two options: First: Buy a lot at once and pay 60-80 cents per round. That price is hard to stomach, but you will have ammo quickly. The second option is to go by somewhere and grab what little they’ll sell you every day until you get enough or they run out. It’s easier to stomach $13-$80 a pop, but you have to have to commit to doing something every day or so for an extended period of time. And that’s assuming that your shop doesn’t run out before you’re satisfied.

Bottom line: I hope you stocked up back in the good ol’ days of last year. I didn’t, and I’m paying the price. Literally. 9mm costing more than 5.56 used to, and 5.56 costing the same as 6.5 Creedmoor! The world has gone crazy and those who weren’t prepped are in for a rough time.

It’s time to start brushing up on our dry fire once again.

See you on the other side, and hopefully we learned something from this whole experience.

-S_S