EJFudd
NES Member
Well, first off, I must disagree that Walmart... which owned a full 20% (not 15%) of US ammo sales prior to its virtue signaling BS... was a small player that didn't matter. When they started their virtue signaling BS in late 2019, just like that 20% of the US ammo supply went off the market. That alone should have been enough to cause big trouble in the ammo business and it did. I benefited greatly later from the Great Walmart Evil Ammo Selloff sale in December of 2019, but that was not enough to change what was to become the 2020-2021 ammo shortage.Not true at all, there was definitely a covid component to gun sales. Covid-fear-sales were full retard long before the rioting puffed up. The first wave of gun and ammo shortages in 2020 was basically welded to covid as far as im concerned.
And please remember that I am talking ammo here, not guns. Also remember that COVID was not even a thing back in late-2019 when Walmart pulled the rug out from under us. COVID only started to be a thing in the USA in early-2020.
For the record, my last successful TSUSA order was placed in late-March 2020. I consider that to roughly mark the beginning of the ammo shortage. GF was in late-May 2020. Are we really arguing about just 2 months here?
I don't recall guns (not ammo, guns) being in short supply until much later. As far as my experience goes, the ammo shortage and the gun shortage began at somewhat different times.