Questions have been coming up in online discussions about ammunition prices going down and how fast because of the election of Donald J. Trump.
This is what I tell anyone who asks:
Ammunition prices will likely rise in the short term between now and Christmas because of the holidays. Due to the holidays ammunition manufacturers may slack off production temporarily. Add to that that ammunition goes up during this period because it makes a good Christmas stocking stuffer.
I have been tracking ammunition prices over the last three and a half years, and I have yet to see ammunition price movements due to non-market factors.
If ammunition prices do go down this summer, it will be more likely because of the price of inputs: metals, powder, labor, etc. But make no mistake. The election of Trump will have a real impact on markets, if he is as free market oriented as he has hinted in the past.
California passed a background check law for ammunition this election. It will be interesting to see how the new law is implemented. The last time I went to California was in the early 1990s, when border guards were posted to inspect for agricultural products. Californians will probably ignore the new law and make ammunition buys in other states, the interception of which could involve those border guards.
Nevadans passed a universal background check law for their state, so unless my math is off, they are the ninth state to enact a universal background check law. So, if we see a higher spike in NICS background checks this summer, this new law will be a factor in that higher number.
Seattle passed a gun purchase tax on the heels of the universal background check law, and it seems no one wants to sell guns in Seattle anymore. So projected revenues are probably down, but you wouldn't know it by the way the city government acts.
How good will Trump be for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms? I have my doubts. His opening bid is awfully weak, proposing fixes to a system that can't possibly be fixed. Add to that the fact that government agents ignore the laws that Congress passed, all without the new president making note of that, bodes ill for the 2nd Amendment.
Lastly, I have been guilty of this. If you have read this column for very long, you'll recall my homemade bipod for the Mosin-Nagant rifle. Compared to other bipods, it looked terribly amatuerish. But the bipod improved my aiming on the Mosin, so how stupid looking does it have to be to work? The Mosin doesn't lend itself very well to accessories, although Lord knows it has been tried.
Loads.
Rantburg's summary for arms and ammunition:
Prices for pistol ammunition were mostly higher. Prices for rifle ammunition were mixed.
Prices for used pistols were mixed. Prices for used rifles were mixed.
New Lows:
None.
Pistol Ammunition
.45 Caliber, 230 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (4 Weeks)
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Outdoor Limited, Tulammo, FMJ, Steel Casing, .24 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds: Outdoor Limited, Tulammo, FMJ, Steel Casing, .24 per round (From Last week: Unchanged (3 Weeks))
.40 Caliber Smith & Wesson, 180 Grain, From Last Week: +.02 Each After Unchanged (2Q, 2016)
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Ammo Mart, Buffalo Cartridge, RSFP, Brass Casing, .20 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds: Freedom Ammunition, Own Brand, Brass Casing, Reloads, .22 per round (From Last Week: +.01 Each After Unchanged (2 Weeks))
9mm Parabellum, 115 Grain, From Last Week: +.01 Each After Unchanged (2 Weeks)
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Cheaper Than Dirt!, Tulammo, FMJ, Steel Casing, .17 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 1,000 rounds: J&G Sales, Tulammo, FMJ, Steel casing, .16 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (3 Weeks))
.357 Magnum, 158 Grain, From Last Week: +.02 Each After Unchanged (2Q, 2016)
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Outdoor Limited, Tulammo, FMJ, Steel Casing, .25 per round
Cheapest Bulk: 1,000 rounds: J&G Sales, Tulammo, FMJ, Steel casing, .25 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (2 Weeks))
Rifle Ammunition
.223 Caliber/5.56mm 55 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (2 Weeks)
Cheapest, 20 rounds: Ourdoor Unlimited, Tulammo, FMJ, Steel Casing, .23 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 1,000 rounds: SG Ammo, Wolf WPA, FMJ, Steel Casing, .22 per round (From Last Week: -.01 Each After Unchanged (2 Weeks))
.308 NATO 150 Grain, From Last Week: -.02 Each After Unchanged (3 Weeks)
Cheapest, 20 rounds: Natchez Shooters Supplies, Tulammo, FMJ, Steel Casing, .37 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds: Target Sports USA, Aguila, Brass Casing, FMJ, .60 per round (From Last Week: +.13 Each (!))
7.62x39mm AK 123 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (2 Weeks)
Cheapest, 20 rounds: Target Sports USA, Wolf WPA, Steel Case, FMJ, .25 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 1,000 rounds: SG Ammo, Wolf WPA, Steel Case, FMJ, .23 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged)
.22 LR 40 Grain, From Last Week: +.01 Each After Unchanged (8 Weeks)
Cheapest, 50 rounds (10 Box Limit): Ammomen, Federal, RNL, .07 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 1,000 rounds: Ammomen, Federal, RNL, .07 per round (From Last Week: +.01 Each)
h/t Instapundit
...Folks, this was so close to the end, I could almost see the bottom. A 1% demographic shift would have delivered this whole thing to Hillary. I felt we were a hair’s breadth from Kurt Schlichter’s People’s Republic, where Civil War or Venezuelan-level corruptocracy were the only possibilities left for America.
Love or hate Donald Trump, he saved us from that, at least. For awhile, anyway.
A lot of us on the Right didn’t like him. Many still don’t. But that matters not. What does matter is that we have some time, and we need to use every second of it, because we won’t get another chance. This is it, the final chance to turn the Titanic around before the iceberg.
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Assaulted by Ma and Pa Kettle,
America shows us her mettle.
Some say she's a strumpet;
The truth that I'll trumpet:
There's honor in grasping the nettle.
#1
Please, NO! None of these kabuki masters for dog catcher or anything higher up!!
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11/12/2016 16:01 Comments ||
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#2
My opinion - keep Trey where he is; bring in Rudy Guliani in as AG. Go after the Clinton Foundation if you don't go after Hillary ! herself. To me, it's one or the other. In an ideal world it would be both.
[Hoover.org] What was forgotten in all this hysteria was that Trump had brought to the race unique advantages, some of his own making, some from finessing naturally occurring phenomena. His advocacy for fair rather than free trade, his insistence on enforcement of federal immigration law, and promises to bring back jobs to the United States brought back formerly disaffected Reagan Democrats, white working-class union members, and blue-dog Democrats--the "missing Romney voters"--into the party. Because of that, the formidable wall of rich electoral blue states like Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, Ohio, and North Carolina crumbled. Pray that it matters that he did.
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As noted over at AOSHQ, "How soon after inauguration does the media rediscover true unemployment, a bad economy, crushing public debt, and the plight of the homeless?"
Posted by: Mullah Richard ||
11/12/2016 8:03 Comments ||
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MR yes, if its negative they will report it. They probably will make news up as they go along. Nothing new to expect out of them. No interest in learning anything new. Something like the technology of the House and Senate.
#3
Preemptive strike would be to announce that Trump demands to know what the real numbers are, not the cooked and crooked kind handed out for years. A lot of firing and a lot of 'I was obeying orders' from the miscreants at the start of the administration among the senior fellows at Labor et al. Then you start with a true baseline. You also have the bat to hammer the media for not investigating themselves the lies pushed out for 8+ years.
#5
Trump rode a huge crest of a wave of disfranchised voters who felt that their party had left them and they wanted someone new outside the beltway. They were ticked off because they felt like their party did not listen to them in 2010 and 2012 after giving them the House and Senate.
Preemptive strike would be to announce that Trump demands to know what the real numbers are, not the cooked and crooked kind handed out for years.
This * 1,000! If Trump wants to put both of his thumbs in Obama's eyes and a boot in his ass, I can think of no better way. I also hope Trump trashes Obama like Obama trashes Bush by blaming shit on him, but just for the first three or four months. That sort of thing gets old fast.
Donald Trump has pledged to "reform the entire regulatory code," to "cancel immediately all illegal and overreaching executive orders," and to place a "temporary moratorium on new agency regulations that are not compelled by Congress or public safety."
On the chopping block will be regulations to address climate change (which he’s labeled a Chinese hoax); to implement Obamacare ("a disaster"); and to rein in Wall Street ("We’re too involved in regulation of the banks"). Gone, too, will be President Barack Obama’s executive actions protecting the children of undocumented immigrants and tightening restrictions on gun sales.
The GOP’s continuing majorities in the House and Senate will clear the decks for any legislation the president-elect proposes, but Trump is impatient to assert his presidential authority ("I alone can fix it") and to dismantle much of Obama’s agenda with the stroke of a pen.
White House spokesman Josh Earnest said Tuesday that Obama will try to persuade Trump when they meet Thursday to limit the reversals to preserve continuity.
Con't.
#1
A fundamental concept of the Constitution was to control the aggregation of power under the precept that you never want to have powers you'd never want your worse opponent to exercise. For some reason, those on the Left always seemed to miss that day of class.
#6
Maybe now they will realize what the libertarians and small-government conservatives were trying to teach them all during Obama's abuses.
That'd be nice, but I doubt it - I think the huge majority of these people think they know everything by the time they get their bachelor's / journalism degree, then stop learning. Just look at Obama as Exhibit A.
#7
I suspect they expected Trump to refrain from using his Executive Power much like Mitch stopped using the Nuclear Option on the Filibuster.
Nope - Trump's no {B|M}itch.
#8
Funny how the NY Times is suddenly interested in 'telling the truth' now that the democrats are out of office.
Liars always lie.
Posted by: Ho Chi Barnsmell1818 ||
11/12/2016 15:12 Comments ||
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Re: NYT - Yeah, saw that also. Now that the Grey Lady has now absolutely, positively, Scouts Honor promised to report only the objective truth, everything they say going forward is on the up-and-up./sarc
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... ’s stunning victory last Tuesday’s US presidential election sets the stage for a new oil battle with the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) and intensification of the competition in world oil markets.
While the president-elect does not yet have clearly articulated detailed policies on most energy issues, his campaign promises indicate he would likely adopt policies in favor of increasing fossil fuel (oil, gas and coal) output, ease regulations on industry and undo most of Obama’s "clean" policies.
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11/12/2016 00:00 ||
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Several Trump comments indicate to me that he understands that so called 'clean energy' is the big lie, and doesn't achieve cleaner anything, cleaner air in particular.
#5
'Green energy' is simply more proof that the Democrat's only real 'skill' is wasting money. Nuke all federal 'green' programs, preferably with a flamethrower.
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[Hoover.org] What was forgotten in all this hysteria was that Trump had brought to the race unique advantages, some of his own making, some from finessing naturally occurring phenomena. His advocacy for fair rather than free trade, his insistence on enforcement of federal immigration law, and promises to bring back jobs to the United States brought back formerly disaffected Reagan Democrats, white working-class union members, and blue-dog Democrats--the "missing Romney voters"--into the party. Because of that, the formidable wall of rich electoral blue states like Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, Ohio, and North Carolina crumbled.
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