lister22 Posted February 3, 2015 Report Share Posted February 3, 2015 look at the price of lead,copper,crude oil why is ammo so expensive because they can milk it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vince Green Posted February 4, 2015 Report Share Posted February 4, 2015 To be fair its a very expensive business importing ammunition these days and distributing it around the country to all the dealers. The dealers are all skint and don't buy much at a time so the costs just pile up. Krank seems to have the best idea with Privi, pile it high, sell it cheap. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Underdog Posted February 4, 2015 Report Share Posted February 4, 2015 To be fair its a very expensive business importing ammunition these days and distributing it around the country to all the dealers. The dealers are all skint and don't buy much at a time so the costs just pile up. Krank seems to have the best idea with Privi, pile it high, sell it cheap. You touched on the real reason expanding ammo became section5!! To price it nearly out of reach!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vince Green Posted February 4, 2015 Report Share Posted February 4, 2015 You touched on the real reason expanding ammo became section5!! To price it nearly out of reach!! The big nail in the coffin was making the sale of ammo face to face, You are now restricted to buying ammo from dealers you are prepared to drive to. My friend who lives in a particularly rural part of Wales was virtually rendered unable to shoot by that piece of legislation. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rbrowning2 Posted February 4, 2015 Report Share Posted February 4, 2015 There are some high overheads in running a gun shop, licences, insurance, monitored alarm system, trade association memberships, then business rates, property rent, etc… And an import/distribution system that controls the price by mainly having a sole importer/distributor who take a large cut of the profit allowing the gun shop only a small margin on consumables like ammo, cartridges, bullets, powder etc. Even getting stock into the shop is expensive because of the nature of the goods. The importers/distributors even control to how many shops/business they will sell to in any one given geographical area and even the type of business property e.g. high street shop only a practice that may be illegal but who complains? Tell me another industry with the same issues? Just consider if all the coffee or tea was only imported via one sole importer/distributor and they only sold to one Tesco store in any given area. The other retailers would complain to the monopolise commission or trading standards stating unfair price fixing – but is that not exactly what is happing in the shooting industry and no one cares because of the type of industry it is, and so prices are high and go only in one direction. Or we get grey imports with the sole importer declining to repair the item if it goes wrong. I think in time we will see less and less gun shops, have you ever stopped to look at the age of the shop owners? How many are owned by young twenty or even thirty year olds? Mind you same can be said at clay grounds, unless mummy, dad or granddad are paying for the youngster or teenager to shoot. Most shooting was once a cheapish sport/hobby not any more. So bullets are expensive, I remember the days when I cast them for free. Rant over. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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