.22 Ammo Shortage Likely To Continue
The shortage of .22 ammo is likely to continue for awhile. The CMP is out of stock but has been accepting back orders for .22 manufactured by Aguila which they are expecting delivery of in October. The head of the CMP posted, on May 28th, on their forum the status of their order backlog:
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The orders are still coming, but have slowed down a little. We are currently about 20,000 orders behind. over 6,000 of those orders are for .22 ammo which we do not expect till Oct at the earliest.
CMP sells this ammo in case lots and a case contains 5,000 rounds or ten bricks. I am sure that many of the 6, 000 orders are for more than one case. Probably before October arrives the complete shipment from the manufacturer will be allocated and it will be another six months wait for the next shipment. Probably when this ammo finally arrives many will immediately reorder for the next batch.
Just a heads up so you can plan ahead.