There's both good news and bad news for firearms owners.
When I visited Cabelas two weeks ago there was ammo on their shelves. Their top shelf had about 8 linear feet of .223 ammo. I happened to walk in on a Wednesday night. I visited again the following day and there was still a lot of it left. I don’t know if this is a true recovery or if I walked in at exactly the right time. Someone there told me that their shipments normally come in on Thursdays, so maybe it actually comes in Wednesday nights, or it came in early that week… Cabelas is still limiting ammo sales to a total of 5 boxes. There’s also a lot of variability in pricing. .223 ammo ranged from $7 for 20 rounds to $25 for 50 rounds. I recently saw .223 available somewhere else ranging from $11 to ~$17 for 20 rounds.
.22 caliber ammo was still not available at all at Cabelas.
But there were LOTS of 25-round magazines for Ruger 10-22 rifles. Magazines have also been in very short supply since last December. It appeared most magazine types were hanging from their pegs, so that part of the supply may have recovered.
Today I found this article about AR-15 supply recovering and prices dropping too.
Universally, it seems like ammo is still going to be the problem in the future. From the comments at this website it’s .223, .22 and 9mm that are most in demand. I also had a conversation with someone a few days ago who is having trouble finding .380.
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