Originally Posted By: Whitewolf
Ok, what better way to attempt at least some form of control than to restrict supplies?
This is all tin foil hat nonsense. No one is "restricting" anything. What you're seeing is supply and demand. None of the manufacturers have added extra .22 ammunition production lines. They're too expensive, and it's just not profitable enough. They are running what they have 24 / 7 trying to keep up. But when you have these retired clowns camped out at Wal-Mart at 7:00 AM every morning, buying up everything before it hits the shelf, it makes it pretty hard to get the ammunition to the people who would actually shoot it.
.22 Ammo is cheap enough for even these idiots to stockpile. They're all acting like it's going to be a form of legal tender. Many are reselling it at gun shows and the like. Sooner or later it will end. Until it does you'll have more of the same.
There is no vast government conspiracy to "restrict" ammunition. That's ridiculous. If you want the culprits go to Wal-Mart and confront them. You'll know who they are. They're in their 70's, and are spending a third of their Social Security on .22 ammo, because they believe the black helicopters are circling overhead.... Or soon will be. And they want to be able to trade bullets and silver for beans, or some such nonsense. In the meantime some poor kid who got a new .22 for Christmas, won't be able to shoot it as much as he would like. Simply because you've got too many grown adults acting like imbeciles.
