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Do you really think they made that much money? They probably made a 25-50% markup along with all of their time invested in waiting in lines, gathering, listing it on a site, dealing with payment, and dealing with shipping.

I can't speak to box-by-box sellers, but bulk packs made a fortune - CCI 1600 round boxes that went for a little as $99 to $110 at Wal-Mart, Academy, etc. ALL THE TIME, before, are going for $200 to $300 on gunbroker.

Just sayin - that's a heck of a lot more than 50% - if you were smart enough to grab, say, 10 before the rush - you could make a grand, $1500 maybe.

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Posted by Pepperidge

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Posted on 2/28/15 at 3:17 pm to Ace Midnight

buckets of bullets (Remington Golden Bullets 1400ct)

were arriving at Academy Sports for $69 retail

they were selling on Gun Broker for $300+ ALL DAY!

From what I knew and could tell of the people in line every morning , they were pawn shop owners/employees and a few resellers... every now and then you'd see the owner of a small gun shop that was too small for his distributor to allocate any .22lr to getting some to supply his customers who bought 22's from them...

For one, I am glad in a way that their is such demand for the ammo...believe it or not thousands of jobs were created as extra shifts were added to every ammo manufacturer in the country...price stabilized at a level we could all live with and still be able to shoot as often as before...the amount of 22 rifles and pistols manufactured and sold almost tripled and is still rising from what I am told...so demand will almost always be there...the price is what it will be for a long time to come as there are far more gun owners...new gun owners as well(win/win) now than any other point in history...Freedom Loving Americans...frick Yeah!