Trump & Reloading supplies?
 

I am not in the know about government stuff but did Obama have any regs that made out loading stuff harder to get? Like powder & brass?

None that I'm aware of. It was the massive spike in demand that made it hard to find any components.

What ^ he said!

Obama's administration did put forth regs, most of which were struck down, which attempted to disrupt the supply chain, i.e. ridiculous import taxes on powder is one I recall. Nothing really stood, and nothing really stood out, so i don't see anything getting wiped away to make things easier.

I do, however, see a perpetual process of increased prices and increased regulation.

I dollar-cost-average my supplies - meaning I buy a little on every paycheck, whether I need it or not. I'm not old enough to tell stories about prices from back in the day, but even in my short life, I CAN remember prices much lower than today, TRACKING DISPROPORTIONATELY AHEAD OF INFLATION. So any time you can buy today, it's roughly the cheapest you'll ever buy it in the next decade.

Where Mercy buy's "a little at a time", I find bulk sales which greatly increases my savings over time. I have been around long enough to see what he was saying about prices being higher and quite disproportionate to inflation as well. It's been said by many that Obummer was absolutely the BEST guns and ammo salesman ever in the history of guns and ammo sales!!! I agree whole heartedly with that statement. Hopefully these "runs" on ammo and reloading components will slow down some and the prices may actually come down a little. They are getting quite out of hand.

The obozo administration used anything and everything it could to destroy the Constitution, especially the 2nd. Amendment! THANKFULLY, they FAILED!
They even used the EPA to force lead makers out of business! Lets all hope that obozo, the klintoons and all of the liberal agenda stay in our rear-view mirror forever!

Don't get me wrong, I don't think anyone would call what I "invest" monthly in shooting to be "little," and you can always find sales somewhere. I don't buy anything by the box or by the pound. I just regularly buy bulk volumes.

LOL...I always seem to get an angry UPS or FEDEX delivery guy whenever I order bullets. I makeum earn that paycheck :D

There were a couple of things that I can think of that the administration tried, but failed to do. One was attempting to block sales of once fired brass to companies that process and re-sell it to reloaders. They wanted to sell it all as scrap to be shredded and melted down. You can speculate, but I firmly believe it was an intentional attempt to keep it our of our hands. The other was the attempt at banning M855/SS109 ammo and/or projectiles by labeling them as "armor piercing." I'm sure there were many more backhanded attempts to keep reloading supplies out of our hands, but those were the two most blatant/obvious that I can think of.

Anyway, Nomercy said it best:

I also buy just a little bit with each paycheck. Of course, I shop the sales first and buy in bulk whenever practical, but I still buy a little bit every month.

Didn't Obama's EPA have something to do with the last lead smelting plant in the USA closing? I think so.

Also Obama's BATF tried to change the way wetted nitrocellulose was allowed to be transported. Obama's BATF tried to change the interpretation to an explosive. Do to public pressure, members of congress got the BATF to back off.

No!!!


Re-loaders panicked and went on a buying spree. They did it to themselves.

most of the problems when obama was elected came from the rumors that he would take our guns away. this happens every time a democrat get elected president. everyone rushed out and bought as much reloading supplies as they could. this caused a shortage and the suppliers laughed all the way to the bank. they couldnt make stuff fast enough. also raised the price on everything. glad i had reloading supplies before all this happened.

I think it's a bit more complicated than that. Sure, you had the panicked paranoid people who bought up anything and everything they could find. I also heard of people who would find out when stores would get their shipments of powder and 22s so they could buy up as much as they could, either to hoard or to sell for a ridiculously inflated price. However, I think most of the issue was regular reloaders buying more than they previously had. For instance, if I was lucky enough to see two pounds of H110 on a shelf, even if I still had half a pound left, I'd still buy both even if it would probably be a while before I finished up my opened canister.

I also had the misfortune of starting reloading the day before the Aurora shooting, so I didn't have any supply of components from prior to the shortages to hold me over.