1. Meh. They lost me as a customer after they bent over for the progtards and removed all guns and ammo from their stores over a year ago.

   Walfart can go suck on a truckload of d*cks for all I care.

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   1. Given where I lived when I got interested in guns, I’ve always relied primarily on mail order for ammo purchases.

      Re Walmart in particular, they have some really nice stores now, but when I first stepped into one many years ago it was overstuffed with narrow aisles, and with a generally shabby feel – not a really pleasant shopping experience. From that initial impression, I’ve tended to generally avoid them, unless there’s not a good alternative around.

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2. That’s … not necessarily a recent thing, if you replace “range bag” with “basement.”

   For some folks, anyway. (Not the Boris household, of course.)

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3. I have started spending more and more at WalMart.

   The other big retailers donate, sometimes big, to the Democrats. WalMart supports policies I support. Costco, Amazon, Target, etc… do not. I have not stopped spending at the big box leftist stores, but if I can get it from Walmart.com for about the same price, I do.

   Vote with your wallet whenever you can.

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4. Opinions wanted:
   What is a brick of 500 Winchester 22LR worth today? I mean, an honest fair selling price.
   I see on gunbroke (er), going for $200 and up for a brick.
   But when local guys try to sell it for even half of that, boy the shit starts flying for the unprepared.

   1. On Gunbroker, or at any auction really, the selling price would be set by someone who is “the most” of all bidders. That could be most desperate, most ignorant, or most desirous (in the case of a true collectible, for instance), out of a nationwide pool of potential buyers.

      Your local pool isn’t anywhere near as large, for one thing. So the chances are that someone locally would be as desperate as the most desperate person on Gunbroker, is small.

      1. thanks
         but alot of gunbrker is not auction
         it is buy it now and still selling
         Understand, smaller market for sure

         1. In the “buy it now” case, you can think of it as a kind of “binary temporal” auction. The first bid will be accepted, and there’s a minimum bid; the question is when or if it will be made.

            For a price well above the average market rate, if someone buys it, it’s going to be bought by someone who’s desperate to get something now, afraid they wouldn’t be able to win an auction for whatever reason, a low-information buyer, or one who simply does not care about price. Low-information buyers (e.g. don’t check prices elsewhere) tend to skew the market to the high side, especially if they are also desperate.

            And again, pool size matters. Cynically, Gunbroker – or eBay – put your overpriced whatever in front of many more potential suckers.

5. Adapt. Or. Die.

   The ammo shortages are not going away. There’s just too much demand and not enough supply. We either need to start doing something to increase the supply (band together and start more ammunition factories) or we need to do something about the demand (start designing and building guns that don’t rely on conventional ammunition cartridges. Caseless ammunition, electromagnetic accelerators, or energy weapons.)

   1. Caseless ammunition still depends on some form of explosive igniter, be it percussion like traditional primers or electrical like remington experimented with in the 90’s and early 00’s. Either way they utilizes a more sensitive explosive to ignite and would be just as heavily regulated as our current primer production. Electro magnetic and direct energy weapons are mostly limited by our ability to store and generate electrical power. A cartridge based chemical laser might be possible but the chemicals involved is such a energetic reaction would likely as heavily regulated as primer production is. So until there is a break through in battery and capacitor design we are still stuck waiting on primer production to catch up with demand.

      If we need to do something we should be lobbying congress and the senate to have the ATFE and OSHA to ease up on primer and powder permit times and to keep banks off ammo makers backs.

      This shortage is because no company wants to over extend themselves opening up new production only to be caught overextended when demand goes down.

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