Academy changes its ammo policy

[RandomHero]

Company wide policy effective today:

Ammo is now limited to 1 box per caliber per day, In all the major caliber. .223/5.56, 7.62x39, .22lr, 9mm, .40, .45, .308. Available at CUSTOMER SERVICE.

Just a heads up to you alk.

 

[itchin]

I just bought 16 boxes of 7.62x39 about 20 mins ago at academy.

 

[Glockster69]

Hoarder

I mean lucky bastard

 

[BG1960]

Next they will want ID.

 

[Younggun]

If they check ID to verify age I could care less, long as they don't want to record anything.

 

[RandomHero]

I just bought 16 boxes of 7.62x39 about 20 mins ago at academy.

The ****!? I went to 2 stores and both had the same pokicy and both told me it was company wide.

410/military, 1604/potranco.

 

[RandomHero]

I tried to buy the last 4 tulammo 7.62x39 at 410/military and i was denied.

 

[Charlie]

The ****!? I went to 2 stores and both had the same pokicy and both told me it was company wide.

410/military, 1604/potranco.

Certainly you're not beliving everything you're hearing about guns, etc. these days? Maybe Academy didn't get the memo!

 

[itchin]

Weird. This was at 410/perrin beitel.

 

[Shooter McGavin]

We have a team of guys that stalk my local Academy(s) everyday. They wait at the front doors, as soon as they open off they go to the firearm section. One or two will go to the gun counter to check for rifles & mags the other(s) rape & pillage the ammo aisle. I've seen it happen twice and a couple of my buddies have watched it all unfold a few times. I know there's nothing to stop them from doing so and they're not doing anything "wrong" per say but it doesn't help the guy who goes in there later for some .22 to shoot with his kid over the weekend either. My local Cabela's started a 10 box limit a couple of weeks ago, which I'm ok with that considering the circumstances. A one box limit is rather excessive I think, but then again my local Academy's have been lucky to have anything other than a few boxes of the premium stuff on the shelves the last couple of months.

 

[jordanmills]

If they check ID to verify age I could care less, long as they don't want to record anything.

Why would you care about verifying age?

 

[Tomservo92]

Is that policy the result of ammo shortages or the anti-gun rhetoric?


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[RandomHero]

We have a team of guys that stalk my local Academy(s) everyday. They wait at the front doors, as soon as they open off they go to the firearm section. One or two will go to the gun counter to check for rifles & mags the other(s) rape & pillage the ammo aisle. I've seen it happen twice and a couple of my buddies have watched it all unfold a few times. I know there's nothing to stop them from doing so and they're not doing anything "wrong" per say but it doesn't help the guy who goes in there later for some .22 to shoot with his kid over the weekend either. My local Cabela's started a 10 box limit a couple of weeks ago, which I'm ok with that considering the circumstances. A one box limit is rather excessive I think, but then again my local Academy's have been lucky to have anything other than a few boxes of the premium stuff on the shelves the last couple of months.

This i understand. I hate those guys. My coworker went on wed at 10am to buy 9mm and was told that 1 single guy bought EVERY BOX of 9mm that arrived that morning.

 

[RandomHero]

Is that policy the result of ammo shortages or the anti-gun rhetoric?


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Shortages. I asked for 9mm and they said some would arrive monday and with the new policy it would be easier to get.

 

[jcrntx]

This was the line before the 1604/potranco store opened yesterday morning. That store has had a 5 or 6 box per caliber limit for a while. Even with the limit, the 223, 9mm, 308 and 22 was off the shelf in less than a minute.

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[RandomHero]

i dont understand how in the hell 22lr is all dried up all of a sudden.

 

[Carbohydrates]

i dont understand how in the hell 22lr is all dried up all of a sudden.

Just a side effect of the major centerfire stuff being so unavailable. I doubt anyone is expecting sweeping legislation on rimfires, they're just buying it more because there's less of everything else to buy.

 

[TX69]

i dont understand how in the hell 22lr is all dried up all of a sudden.

Guys going in to chek fr another caliber and don't find it. They;re there and say what the hell I'll I'll pick up a brick r two. Doesn't take long.

 

[RandomHero]

Just a side effect of the major centerfire stuff being so unavailable. I doubt anyone is expecting sweeping legislation on rimfires, they're just buying it more because there's less of everything else to buy.

Guys going in to chek fr another caliber and don't find it. They;re there and say what the hell I'll I'll pick up a brick r two. Doesn't take long.

makes sense.

 

[35Remington]

makes sense.

What they said, plus the fact that .22 caliber rifles are semi-auto, making people think all semi-auto ammo is about to be restricted.

I will say this about ammo hoarding: I been a shooter for a long time, but I've made more trips to the store for ammo in the past 30 days than in the previous 3 years. There is certainly something about a commodity becoming scarce that increases, at least in my case, the desire for that commodity to be held.