idiot politicians should make selling ammo online illegal

here is a great idea for those idiot politicians that think they need to make new laws every time a criminal breaks a law.

make the selling of ammo online illegal, only in person sales would be allowed to individuals by an official retailer or retail outlet just like they do for cigarettes and alcohol where ID for proof of age is required.

all those scammers out there hoarding ammo and reselling it at 3 and 4 times face value can go back to selling crack or whatever they did before they started scalping ammo.

EDIT - ok correction, I will amend this to say limit ammo sales to retail outlets only so a business can sell it at stores locally or online but not individuals

[Ducimus]

Were you just at gunbroker.com or similar website?

[Red October1984]

Originally Posted by Ducimus

Were you just at gunbroker.com or similar website?

I just was...

[Stealhead]

If you stock up on common ammo in general you will not be effected by price spikes.Just a thought.

[TLAM Strike]

Sooooo basically regulate the internet?

yea...

...excuse me...

[Red October1984]

Originally Posted by TLAM Strike

Sooooo basically regulate the internet?

yea...

...excuse me...

I was originally going to post something along that line but I decided against it.

[Stealhead]

In the US ammunition is a free market item and the federal government has no say in how much it should or should not cost.

Anyone can price gouge as well a person in a brick and mortar store can do it just as easily as an online seller can.

Everyone goes to cheaperthandirt anyway so they are one of most likely places to price gouge.Just because a site has a certain name does not mean that the implication of the name is true.

As I said before the only way to not get effected by the market is to regularly stockpile your ammo or load/reload on your own.

[Ducimus]

But... but.. If I stockpile ammo, I'll look like one of those crazy doomsday prepper people!


Honestly, I think most everyone in my state who owns a house is sitting on their own personal cache in their basement. Truth of the matter is, right now, you can't even get supplies for reloading - least of all in 9MM. I can't get ammo for my handgun, outside of what we have in an ammo can labeled "9MM", but I can still buy brazilian made M80 ball ammo locally. Go figure.

[raymond6751]

With all that ammo stored all over the place, I guess the second most dangerous job (after cops) must be fire fighter.

Snap, Crackle, Pop

ok maybe asking for in person sales only is going too far but cant any of you can see the huge difference in online auctions selling overpriced ammo to the highest bidder and the legitimate online DEALERS out there?

stopping INDIVIDUALS from holding auctions selling to the highest bidder will not effect in any way the way you buy ammo online right now except to shut down the scalpers market and make ammo cheaper and more available to everyone.

time and time again when the supply chain is looked at the factories are producing the ammo and it is being shipped out but it isn't reaching the store shelves its going to online auctions instead. its a combination of store employees themselves or with friends who are taking advantage of the system to buy up ammo before legitimate customers can get to it.

and there is a large group of the unemployed who make a living by going to the retail outlets every morning buying up all the ammo because its more then just a coincidence that every auction site lists ammo in lots of the buy limits at local stores.


im just thinking if there is some way to stop these idiots willing to pay such high prices from creating a scalpers market that hurts everyone.

its wrong I know but what can you do? we cant send these idiots to their room for a time out until they learn not to buy overpriced ammo lol

[August]

I see the difference but I think the best place to buy my ammo is at my local gun shop.

[Ducimus]

Originally Posted by August

I see the difference but I think the best place to buy my ammo is at my local gun shop.

Personally, I have never purchased ammo online. In my area, with the exception of select reloading components; it's just cheaper to buy local, then pay shipping and handling.

[TwoGamers]

Get rid of the guns entirely. Problem solved you won't get anymore school shootings . Australia's period of that. There is no practical reason to have guns publicly available.

[Ducimus]

Originally Posted by TwoGamers

Get rid of the guns entirely. Problem solved you won't get anymore school shootings . Australia's period of that. There is no practical reason to have guns publicly available.

Trolling.

[Sailor Steve]

Originally Posted by TwoGamers

Get rid of the guns entirely. Problem solved you won't get anymore school shootings . Australia's period of that. There is no practical reason to have guns publicly available.

This shows that you have zero understanding of anything. First, we have a thing called the Bill Of Rights, which guarantees non-interference by the Government into our private lives. Just because you think there is no practical reason doesn't make it so. The reason, whether you think it's practical or not, is that this country rebelled against British rule and we did so with privately owned guns, which kept the King at bay until we could actually make an army. We keep our guns because we don't want that to happen again.

To get rid of the guns entirely would involve changing the very basis of our government, and that is something that is pretty much impossible, for the very reason our form of government exists in the first place. Until you understand exactly how we think and who we are you are, as the old saying goes, talking through your hat.