Thread: why is .22LR ammo so expensive now?

Below from Shooting Stuff, my normal source of 22 ammo.
(Re RWS, both they and Norma now sold by RUAG to Beretta)


We know a lot of you have been asking when we will be getting our next shipment of ammunition and unfortunately this hasn't been an easy question to answer.

We placed our order in October last year, however shortly after our order was placed we were advised that RUAG (RWS) was going through a change of ownership and this has created a huge headache for us. The new owners don't know how to finalise our order or even give us updated pricing and at this stage haven't actually been able to confirm our order.

So, long story short we won't be seeing any RWS ammunition this season. We know this isn't ideal for anyone and not at all what we hoped we would be updating you all on.

As a consequence because we aren't bringing out a container of RWS this also means it is not economic for us to bring out Eley. Unfortunately the pricing of freight means that we would have to substantially increase the price of the ammunition if we did bring it out on its own and this isn't something we want to do to shooters.

Again, we understand this isn't an ideal situation but we are stuck between a rock and a hard place on this one and all we can do is apologise, we have tried our best to make this work.