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Friday, April 3, 2009

I wonder

My son called his distributor of firearm supplies with a whole list of items to order. They had no primers or gunpowder, none. He managed to get one box of .223 bullets and one box of .44 bullets for me, the last they had. We've been trying for 3 months to get 2 of a certain red dot sight that they normally stock. So far no luck.

I looked on a website a few days ago trying to buy .44 special brass and plastic ammo boxes. More than 50% of stuff I looked at was out of stock.

Are we as a people actually buying that much gun stuff? Could it be that a lot of that stuff is imported but now stopped by executive decree?

Just wondering.
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GunGeek said...

I think it was Tam that spelled things out pretty well a while back, but the gist of it is that our wonderful Just-In-Time supply system empties out rather quickly and is very slow to refill.

Back in the good old days, the retailers would have a large supply, the distributors would have more than enough inventory on hand to meet sudden surges in demand. Likewise, the manufacturers would also have a healthy cushion of inventory as well as a good stock of the raw materials needed to make whatever it is they make. Nowadays, if one component gets delayed the production can come to a halt because they have no buffer.

Lots of people buy up ammo. The stores quickly empty out, the distributors run out, the manufacturers send out all they have, and they can't make any more than they usually do because their suppliers run out and can't the materials they need. At least not above and beyond their normal usage.

Everyone saves a bunch of money in reduced storage for inventory and lower carrying costs for all that stuff. So, we're all very happy until there's a sudden increase in demand.

Then everyone gripes about how hard it is to find and how expensive it is due to the law of supply and demand.

April 6, 2009 at 12:01 PM

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