Have gun sales slowed down?

[phalanx]

Is the ammo situation a cause for it? I was in a gun store yesterday, the owner said most of what the ammo is he can’t get is all those wildcat calibers. That we’re going around a while back. 45LC and 30/30 are hard to get, unless you go online. 9mm is everywhere, all you want.

[orerancher]

Bought a Gun Monday at the Tradin Post...The Government Background Check Website said there were 4,000 +  People in Line.....

The Store Owner Say's It takes about a Week to get Approved for Most People....

You can get all the 5.56 and 9mm Ya want around Here. But Nuthin Else...Glad I don't have to Depend on Store Bought Ammo!

[Dixie-Dude]

The 9mm, 223/556, 308, and 45acp were the first to disappear around here a year or so back.  Odd calibers were easy to find, and gun writers said to buy guns in the odd calibers.  Now, 9mm, 223/556, 308, and 45acp are the first back and just about the ONLY calibers available.  Acadamy locally is limited people to 2 or 4 boxes. 

At least I have the NATO calibers covered.  I do reload 35 Whelen and others, but have not been able to find primers.  I can find bullets and powder (limited to one 1# box at a time), but no primers or even caps for black powder.  Might have to go to flintlocks. 

I also like to shoot skeet, trap, and sporting clays, but can hardly find any no. 8 shot or no. 7-1/2 shot.  Plenty of buckshot.  Only thing I have found is 28 guage.  No 12 or 20 guage.  I have two sons who shoot with me and a sporting clay event is 100 targets per person, skeet and trap are 25. 

My local private gun dealer holds ammo for gun sales and sells each new gun buyer 2 boxes of ammo. 

Hopefully with Remington's new owners cranking back up their ammo production, Fiocci building a factory in Arkansas, and Palmetto States obtaining Russian components making Russian steel cased ammo, maybe the situation will start to wain. 

[Lloyd Smale]

still tough to find guns and ammo on the shelves here. Buddy tried to find a rifle for his grandson for Christmas and couldnt find a thing locally. He ended up ordering one from buds. Said there was slim pickings there too. Quite a few expensive ones but not many entry level guns.