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Ammo Company Addresses Rumors About the Ongoing Ammo Shortage

I am a trainer, mostly training armed professionals for licensing and certification. I have always provided the ammo for my courses. Prior to all this shortage, I was using 21,000 rounds of 9mm per year. I always kept a pretty good supply of ammo on hand of .38, 9mm, .40, .45, and 5.56, but the supplies dried up quickly. Exorbitant ammo costs have to be passed on to the student or they have to bring their own. A $350 three-day class has become a $500 class due to the cost of ammo alone. A lot of security officers can't afford it. In my opinion $50 for a box of 9mm is just nuts. With the ammo shortage combined with COVID 19 issues, my training business has been cut by 90% over the past year. Many security companies are not sending their people to training classes. We didn't even make expenses in 2020. I am twice retired and don't need the income to live on, but I feel bad for those trainers who rely on training as their primary source of income. The irony is, with all the new gun owners out there, quality training is needed now more than ever. I am really close to just closing my business and going out to the wood shop until this nonsense is all over.
 
HayesGreener said:
I am a trainer, mostly training armed professionals for licensing and certification. I have always provided the ammo for my courses. Prior to all this shortage, I was using 21,000 rounds of 9mm per year. I always kept a pretty good supply of ammo on hand of .38, 9mm, .40, .45, and 5.56, but the supplies dried up quickly. Exorbitant ammo costs have to be passed on to the student or they have to bring their own. A $350 three-day class has become a $500 class due to the cost of ammo alone. A lot of security officers can't afford it. In my opinion $50 for a box of 9mm is just nuts. With the ammo shortage combined with COVID 19 issues, my training business has been cut by 90% over the past year. Many security companies are not sending their people to training classes. We didn't even make expenses in 2020. I am twice retired and don't need the income to live on, but I feel bad for those trainers who rely on training as their primary source of income. The irony is, with all the new gun owners out there, quality training is needed now more than ever. I am really close to just closing my business and going out to the wood shop until this nonsense is all over.
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Wow, that hits home on the firearms/ammo biz the past year
 
Recusant said:
And it will only get worse if the current President gets his way!
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Something to keep in mind?
His way? Some people "advertise" or promote one thing in it's almighty grand glory of things knowing they'll likely never fully succeed. In doing that they see if getting only partially what they deem is needed, it's a step in their sometimes demented direction. And, sometimes, it's their only goal in the 1st place? If they fully succeed, while it may be a fluke, they got their way. Is a sick, sorry approach and strategy. To some, it's an F'ing game to play with others rights, feelings, minds and lives. It's the power they're after, people are usually secondary. Thing is, without the people, the citizens, they are nothing.
 
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