Last Saturday ammo buy. Grrrrrrr!

[JUSTIFIED]

This business about Homeland Security buying .40 and .223 isn't helping prices and availability.

[Grand58742]

This thread here, post #6:

http://www.ar15.com/forums/t_2_467/217517_Golden_Tiger.html

This dealer talks about the reason some of the steel case .223 ammo is starting to dry up. But add in election year, 2012 craziness and the nonsense going on in the news and you add up to another panic buying. There is already one site I know of that's started raising prices on ammo and I'm sure others will follow eventually.

[antishot]

Last Sat I went to the local gun show in Rochester NY to walk around and to pick up ammo. When I got the ammo guys table at 9:30am he was almost cleaned out, well I bought the last case of the 5.56 off of him. We talk about the ammo for a bit and he told me that he is having a hard time getting any at all. He told me that the next batch if Russian rounds will be at his shop in about 6 months. Mind you thus guy buys it in the cargo storage vessels. Sat he started with 167 case at 9am and I bought the last at 9:30. That was steel rds he did have LC 5.56 $330 per case and by the end of the day that was all gone 230 case. I have looked on line and it still looks like you can get it on line but I just hate paying for shipping looks like I am going to have to.