.22 LR ammo hoarding debate

[Semper299]

My local walmart is the same. They seem to have every caliber except 22LR. It is crazy. The clerk told me that every morning that they get a shipment, the same people are waiting in line to buy up all the stock. 3 box limit, but they are all in it together. He guesses they are turning around and selling it online for a profit. Ya think?

There are plenty of people in my area that are supplementing their income selling overpriced 22lr on gunbroker. They download the walmart app and drive around buying up 22LR. Pretty sad, IMHO.

[Darren M]

Special place in hell for those folks.

[Pokulski-Blatz]

Special place in hell for those folks.

Holy shit. Quoted for the irony. You know damned well if you could find some, that you would do the same damned thing.

Just as a reminder.

Just trying to start a company. I'll take any fool's money.

[Darren M]

Actually, I wouldn't. Hoarding like that isn't what I'm doing at all. I realize that the actions are similar, capitalism and all, but I'm not making a commodity I'm selling impossible to get. I'm buying low, adding value, and selling at fair market value. I fail to see the how my actions and there's are the same.

[Pokulski-Blatz]

Actually, I wouldn't. Hoarding like that isn't what I'm doing at all. I realize that the actions are similar, capitalism and all, but I'm not making a commodity I'm selling impossible to get. I'm buying low, adding value, and selling at fair market value. I fail to see the how my actions and there's are the same.

It is exactly the same, you are just trying to justify it.

[GrayStangGT]

There are plenty of people in my area that are supplementing their income selling overpriced 22lr on gunbroker. They download the walmart app and drive around buying up 22LR. Pretty sad, IMHO.

As much as I dislike the fact that I can't find .22 I have no problem with someone taking the initiative to make money off of fools. If I had a stock pile of .22 it would be on gun broker. You can guarantee if there is another scare all of my extra lowers and mags will be on there.

[Darren M]

Then we'll have to agree to disagree.

[Cobraman]

Holy shit. Quoted for the irony. You know damned well if you could find some, that you would do the same damned thing.

Just as a reminder.

[Semper299]

As much as I dislike the fact that I can't find .22 I have no problem with someone taking the initiative to make money off of fools. If I had a stock pile of .22 it would be on gun broker. You can guarantee if there is another scare all of my extra lowers and mags will be on there.

I agree, and I sold a lower for alot more than I paid for it last year.

However, there is a difference between selling something you have and paid a low price for, to someone during a gun panic who is willing to pay much more than you did. You are selling something you have at the current market price. Nothing wrong with that at all.

Driving around and raping the shelves of stores to suck up all the ammo so you can turn around and triple the price is something totally different. These people are part of the reason why ammo prices are still high and why some ammo is damn near impossible to find. It is creating a false sense of supply and demand.

[Pokulski-Blatz]

I agree, and I sold a lower for alot more than I paid for it last year.

However, there is a difference between selling something you have and paid a low price for, to someone during a gun panic who is willing to pay much more than you did. You are selling something you have at the current market price. Nothing wrong with that at all.

Driving around and raping the shelves of stores to suck up all the ammo so you can turn around and triple the price is something totally different. These people are part of the reason why ammo prices are still high and why some ammo is damn near impossible to find. It is creating a false sense of supply and demand.

How in the shit are the two any different?

[Semper299]

How in the shit are the two any different?

Well, say you bought an AR lower for $75 a few years ago, and something happens that drives the prices of lowers up. Could be anything, but the fair market value of your lower is now $150. I don't see anything wrong with selling your lower for $150.

[Baron Von Crowder]

How in the shit are the two any different?

If you were to buy gold today, at the going rate, and then next month the price triples, you choose to sell it. That is cool.

On the other hand, there is a gold shortage, and you are driving around buying it up at market price, only to relist it again at triple the price. You are artificially creating the inflation. That's not cool.

[YALE]

The answer lies in the balance of intent vs. motive. Also, don't you have to have an FFL/SOT to resell ammo commercially like that? Like the asshole that has friends at Walmart and gets all their .22 ammo, and resells it at the flee market for triple the price, every time. Doesn't that count as speculation?

[Nash B.]

The answer lies in the balance of intent vs. motive. Also, don't you have to have an FFL/SOT to resell ammo commercially like that?

You have to have a license to sell your own ammo, but I don't think you have to have a license to sell a licensed manufacturer's ammo.

[CJ]

people that do that really piss me off.

^^and yes that is the case.