I just got my Graf & Sons 312-page catalog in the mail. The catalog notes that, “Since November 2008 the phone has been ringing off the hook.” With shortages of ammunition, powder, and primers, they skipped printing a 2009 catalog. The November 2008 reference is the only clue to the event that has so altered the supply and demand for firearm-related merchandise: The election of Barack Obama. They aren’t telling you that fears of a shut-down of the Second Amendment were apparently overblown. Business is good, so why tell anyone not to worry?
With the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence giving Obama an ‘F’ on gun control issues, it seems that everyone is surprised, although some aren’t acting like it.
And while gun control is more about GUN control and not so much about ammo control, the eagerness to buy guns before anticipated restrictions spilled over into ammo-related merchandise. Barack has been busy with other things, such as wars, health care, economic collapse, and now environmental catastrophe. So he could always do an about-face, justifying the cases of bullets, shells, primers, and barrels of powder, that some people seem to be amassing under their work benches.
Any way, Graf & Sons has a redesigned Web site, and the search, browse, and sort experience is pretty smooth. All large rifle primers out of stock; a few small rifle primers in stock. Only a few small pistol primers available; plenty of shotshell primers in stock. Plenty of powders both in and out of stock. Mind you, I don’t care to pay a $25 haz fee when I can get these items locally, but your situation might differ. Bullet supply is also mixed, and although there’s no haz fee. Fortunately, ground shipping is reasonable.
