Before the election, I ordered some ammo in mid-October and a 10 pack of AR mags in late-October. Both were listed as in-stock at the time and from different vendors (ESG Ammo & Brownells) and neither has shipped.

Anyone else experiencing scarcity or delays? I imagine there might have been some pre-election buying but hadn't heard about a shortage.

No problems getting 9mm, .38 special or .22LR ammo. In fact I was beginning to worry that a lot was being sold on sale so suppliers wouldn't get stuck with a bunch of possibly banned ammo. Been using Sportsmans Guide and picking up ammo here and there as well. Haven't been buying accessories and parts though, so I can't speak to that part. Maybe a lot of panic buying as you mentioned has caused a bit of an AR parts shortage? Hope you get your stuff soon!

 

Well, I will admit I have got more powder and primers than I ever thought of having but they sure will not go to waste!

 

I guess the pain is just compounded because I bought a suppressor which takes 8 months to get approval for (citizenship takes considerably less time than getting this expensive hearing-protection, even during an election year). Anyone have some cheese to go with my whine?

 

Try gunbot.com , you can filter choices by who actually has it available . . .

 

I used either gunboat or ammoseek. They said it was in stock. I'd emailed them after a week or so and they just said that they were really busy :/

Probably just an unlucky order (a certain percent of everything goes wrong).

 

"They" as in which vendor on gunbot?

JSG? American?

Gunbot doesn't sell anything, they are merely a search engine.

Recalculate, please . . .

 

Last weekend I contacted the vendor who has a medium volume business supplying reloading components. I tried to get a 8 pound can of Bullseye and in our conversation he noted that many of the wholesalers he dealt with are having shortages of components. A cursory review of the large retail sellers of reloading components shows that many are out of stock very commonly used reloading components.

Was it a run? It could be — if the items come back in stock in a month or two we will know it was purely driven by preventative panic buying before the election.

In any event, I have enough goodies to keep me busy for a good long while.

 

"They" as in which vendor on gunbot?

JSG? American?

Gunbot doesn't sell anything, they are merely a search engine.

Recalculate, please . . .

"They" in this case was EGS Ammo. I explicitly searched for in-stock-only (and it was ammoseek, btw... I made a note of that in the "notes" section of the order apparently) but they just screen-scrape their in-stock information from the sites, I obviously don't blame ammoseek.

I remember also looking at the site to make sure it was in-stock (in case ammoseek was out of date). In fact, it still says in-stock and that it ships in 24-48hrs :-/
http://www.esgammo.com/product-p/003800011000.htm
they're about to get another email. Probably just a mess-up? Or there is a rush on them & they're hiding it to get more orders in the backlog?