Ammo and Gun Supplies Continue Dwindling

Gun owners are finding themselves unable to reload, as shops struggle to restock.

First on fox 44news at 9 --- supply shortages - are infringing on your second amendment rights.

Guns owners unable to reload --- as shops -- struggle to re- stock.

The biggest headlines of the year - have left shelves bare.

First covid-19 then - civil unrest.

Means -- ammo and guns -- are nearly impossible to find.

44news reporter erran huber explains --- even if sales come to a screeching halt - it could be months before the shelves are stocked.

"business has been great, yeah!

The guns and ammo sales have been really good."

But it comes with a catch "we've run out of a lot of our guns and ammo, and it's really hard to get them."

This is one of the last two boxes of 9 mm ammunition left here at frank miller and son bait sporting goods store in owensboro.

They are holding them in reserve for whomever makes their first or next gun purchase here.

But no matter the caliber there not a lot of selection left.

Here's how things looked at the shop when we first told you about the sales spike in march-- full racks and cases.

Now-- for both ammunition and firearms--short supply is running dry.

Chris miller one of the shop owners says there are multiple factors driving the second amendment shortage.

What's happened is people bought so heavy on guns and ammo right when the pandemic first started that everybody sold way way down on their inventory.

Manufacturers were trying to build product, they just can't get caught up.

Now with the all the social unrest, people are a little uneasy with that.

So they're trying to buy all the guns and ammo they can."

That's the case not only here in kentucky--but in illinois-- "i mean i can't call a retailer or wholesalers and say hey send me 500 cases of 9 millimeter...they don't have it."

And in indiana-- a lot of people that were first time buyers came in and said they never ever considered buying a gun before until now.

And across the nation--where uncertain times-- also means an uncertain future for current and potential gun owners.

As for when stock will start returning back to normal?

Chris miller doesn't think it will happen until after the election.

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