What I mean, is that 9mm Luger ammo is almost always in stock now on Federal’s website. That is, ammo manufacturers have seemingly gotten caught up, but only on certain calibers. There is a new problem that has wormed its way out into plain sight. The rest of the article remains true to some degree, and I’ve updated the parts that have changed. Let’s take a quick look at why - The new ammunition problem: There is no end in sight to the increased cost of ammo. Of course, those are direct from Federal Premium prices, meaning from the manufacturer. Today, that same ammo will cost you $28.99. There are several factors leading to higher ammo prices, to include more gun owners than ever before, more expensive materials, panic buying, and more.Īnd in fact, a box of 50 9mm Federal Premium American Eagle FMJ rounds cost $22.99 when this article was originally published on January 24, 2021. The rest of the article remains unchanged. This is not a good development for the price of ammunition moving forward for at least the next 12 months, which is the minimum duration of the ban as seen in this article. This may invariably drive the price up further on the brass cased ammo in those calibers as well, since there is now less ammo on the low end to drive prices down. The hardest hit calibers will be the following: The online gun shops were hit hard once this information was processed as a run on steel cased Russian ammunition like Tula, Wolf, Barnaul and others took place. This will almost certainly keep the price of ammunition high for much longer as the previous “cheap” ammunition will be much harder to find going forward. Many of you have heard at this point that the Biden Administration has signed a ban on the import of Russian ammunition. However, even if they’re fully caught up by the end of 2021 you can still expect to pay AT LEAST 20-40% more per box than you did in 2019 for at least the next few years.
Now with the election cycle over and quickly approaching quarter four in the buying cycle, we can really start to take a step back and figure out not only what happened, but answer the following question: Will ammunition prices go back down?Īt some point we expect the price of ammunition to go back down, but estimates about how low it’ll actually get rely heavily on when the ammo manufacturers get caught up on their back logs and the availability of the parts needed to make ammo. The great ammo shortage of 2020 has turned into an even worse ammo shortage of 2021.
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This is an update to the article originally published on January 24, 2021, and also updated on April 14, 2021, and then again on July 6 2021:
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