someone please explain the 9mm ammo shortage

can someone explain a good reason as to why there is NO 9mm ammo to be found anywhere?

did aliens come down from space and steal it all then blow up every piece of 9mm ammo machinery in existence?

I see NO reason any ammo manufacturer couldn't flood the market with 9mm ammo if they wanted to and I also see no reason why they would purposely not have ammo for sale to meet customer demands because they lose out on making that money.

with 9mm being THE most common ammo out there is every bullet made going straight to police and military sources and nothing for civilians?

I just don't get it, any product in such high demand is a fortune waiting to be made by anyone willing to do what it takes to manufacture the product people want so whats the problem?

as far as I know there isn't a shortage of materials to make all the components so is Obama confiscating all the 9mm ammo that hits the market?

do ammunition manufacturers don't remember how to make 9mm ammo or maybe the one and only 9mm ammo making machine is broken and the parts for it are in north korea? yea that must be it.

seriously I could see a temporary ammo shortage, they happen all the time but after a few months they double the output of ammo and all the shelves are once again full of ammo but not this time so whats so different now?

Now that question should open a whole slew of really crazy answers!


I expect the "FEMA is buying it all up to use to terminate U.S. citizens"
to be the number one answer.

[Red October1984]

For the same reason that you can't find .223 ammo

This reason....his name is Barack Obama.

Originally Posted by Red October1984

This reason....his name is Barack Obama.

So what does he want with all that ammo?

[Subnuts]

Originally Posted by privateer

So what does he want with all that ammo?

In case the Fox News crew gets too uppity during the next press conference.

Seriously though, if you can't find any 9mm ammo, just buy some .38 caliber ammo and sand them down so they don't jam in the chamber. Or buy .32 caliber ammo and wrap each bullet in a couple layers of aluminum foil so they don't rattle around too much.

Signed,
The world's least responsible gun owner.

[Red October1984]

Originally Posted by privateer

So what does he want with all that ammo?

To build DHS into an army in case the American citizens revolt against him

[yubba]

I was up to my elbows in 9mm brass a couple days ago,,if you haven't got it by now you are to late,, With Uncle Joe running off at the mouth about a new world order, we'll see another run on guns, I was just saying the other day ' "I wonder who will say something stupid" ...

[Oberon]

Originally Posted by Red October1984

To build DHS into an army in case the American citizens revolt against him

Don't forget the FEMA death camps! All those coffins!

[Red October1984]

Originally Posted by Oberon

Don't forget the FEMA death camps! All those coffins!

It isn't FEMA Death Camps i'm worried about. It's the DHS Holocaust.

[Subnuts]

So wait...

Is it the Department of Homeless Services, Department of Human Services, Department of Health Services, or the Department of Homeland Security forming a private army and marching people into concentration camps?

[Platapus]

There is a cost for a manufacturer to suddenly increase production. The ammo manufacturers may have determined that the additional sales (if any) would sufficiently offset these production costs.

Some people are choosing to panic and stockpile ammo. This results in a temporary increase in the demand. But does it result in a large enough and long enough increase to justify the additional costs of increasing production? Production is not free and a successful manufacturer has just enough manufacturing capability to handle expected orders.

With MINOR variations?
Post #2 is winning.


So. Wait till the culling starts, drop a few of those DHS Sons-a-whatevers, and take all the free ammo you want.


What they gonna do? Kill you?
Oh.... Wait!...... That's what they was gonna do anyway, right?


Give me a break! How many remember the bunkers sold back in the 50's and 60's?
Cause the government scared everyone with drills and all that crap back then.


Now you have others doing the scare tactic stuff for what end?
To save you?
WRONG answer!!
Look at the bucks they suck out of you. It ain't free folks!
And do you think that every bunker or prepper would be ignored IF a true purge were coming?
You'd be my first targets then I'd hunt the 'runners' down with little problems.

[yubba]

well sooner or later vendors will quit selling to the constitutionally impared.

[Oberon]

Originally Posted by Red October1984

It isn't FEMA Death Camps i'm worried about. It's the DHS Holocaust.

I think the DHS Holocaust rent the FEMA Death Camps on weekdays, and the Lizardman changelings rent them at weekends. It's good for the US economy.

[Oberon]

Originally Posted by yubba

well sooner or later vendors will quit selling to the constitutionally impared.

Well, it's sooner than you think, I haven't seen Vendor on these forums for a while.