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<\/p>\nGougers.\u00a0 People who overcharge simply because they can when supplies are low.\u00a0 Someone who takes advantage of a bad situation. There’s a lot of that going on in the ammo and reloading components business today.\u00a0 What’s driving it is extreme demand induced by the pandemic, the breakdown in law and order in some urban areas, a change of administrations, and the resulting ammunition and components shortages.\u00a0 People are buying guns and ammo in unprecedented numbers because they are afraid.\u00a0 It’s being fueled by uninformed and malicious folks on the Internet.<\/p>\n
Me?\u00a0 I’m not worried.\u00a0 We’ve been through this before.\u00a0 The pendulum swings both ways, and it always returns to center.\u00a0 It may take a while, but common sense always prevails.<\/p>\n
Before all this shortage business began, primers sold for about $34 or $35 per thousand.\u00a0 Gougers have kicked that up to around $100 per thousand, and even at that price, they are difficult to find.\u00a0 Thanks, but I’ll take a pass.\u00a0 I’ll wait it out.\u00a0 It’s that pendulum thing I mentioned above.<\/p>\n
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I imagine it’s tough being in the ammo business these days.\u00a0 For the most part, the folks who make ammo are the same folks who make reloading components, and with the unprecedented demand for ammo, their components are necessarily being consumed by their own factories.\u00a0 I get that, too.<\/p>\n
This video from the CEO of an ammo and components company popped up in my feed yesterday, and I think it’s a good one.\u00a0 You might want to watch it.<\/p>\n