Gary Reeder
we got several big boxes of ammo in this morning
Tuesday, February 01, 2022, 13:06

and the prices were on average $2 more per box of 50 than 2 months ago. We have to have it so we don't have a choice and we can't absorb the price increases ourselves. People think that we make a lot of money on the guns and ammo. The guns are marked up 15%, the ammo usually 30%. That is nothing. Just about every other business in the country has mark ups of 100% or more. Plus we have to put up with the kitchen table dealers that have an FFL and buy guns for their buddies and sell to them at cost. It is illegal to run an FFL out of your house unless you have a sign posted along with the hours you are open, but the ATF ignores that. Gun shops are the only business that is killed from within. The prices on guns and ammo keeps going up and these price increases were from distributors that we have been dealing with for 35 years or more. It is not like we buy a gun for $200 and sell it for $500. That doesn't happen in this business.