A Coming Ammo Crunch?

You've all been hearing the rumors, but where there's smoke is there fire? I've had several reach out over the past week about ammo shortages starting to manifest on the supplier side. Since we're in kinda a unique position as an ammo wholesaler I can shed some light on what's happening. Bottom line up front, its probably a good idea to pick up some more of whatever your caliber of choice near term. 

The War with Iran is causing a residual supply chain crunch both on the shipping side due to fuel costs (which is in turn raising material cost) and also fears of a potential deployment of ground troops in an expanded capacity. I don't personally see a ground invasion of Iran proper happening, but I do see expanded combat deployments to Bahrain, Kuwait, and Qatar as a quick response force for the targeting of US assets in Iraq. This is not ending anytime soon in spite of signals attempting to quell investor fears. Its definitely happening. On top of that, I also expect expanded ammo budgets for DHS and DOW which will in turn divert production to meet those demands. So, availability is going to become more limited. 

There's other elements to this as well. Earlier this year Palmetto State announced AAC's ammo production would become limited due to a powder shortage. This is largely reflective of the ammo industry operating at capacity as is with demand largely exceeding capacity. A war, and a potentially brewing larger one, strains that further. 

So in short there's absolutely a coming ammo shortage the effects of which haven't hit the consumer side just yet, for how long who knows. But I do know we anticipated the problem and made moves before hand to keep prices on our side stable. 

Stay safe out there and train hard. -NCS