I went to my local gun shop today and was told that they don't sell HST ammo anymore because it is only for LE use?
Is this true???
Is this true???
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I went to my local gun shop today and was told that they don't sell HST ammo anymore because it is only for LE use?
Is this true???
I picked two boxes of it up at a local NH shop just last week.
Me too, in NH. I've seen it recently at gun shops in MA as well. Who said this? Should I stock up on it?
Anyhow, the restriction is not government imposed, but Federal Ammo, Inc imposed. So it is theoretically legally binding on those with distribution contracts tied to Federal. That is if Federal has gone so far as to put this sales restriction into their contracts. I don't know if they have done that or not.
There's the rub- is this really something via Fed/ATK or is this some BS excuse made up by a distributor or a gun shop? Some distributors start making up funny stories about why they can't get you something, some of
which have little basis in reality.
-Mike
The Federal Cartridge Company Tactical brand of ammunition is designed, manufactured, and tested to law enforcement standards and sold exclusively to law enforcement agencies.
So what Federal doesn't think that we are as important as LE when it comes to protecting ourselves??
I believe it is merely a marketing ploy to get LEO contracts for large quantities of ammo. As for your own use, I would just get the Federal Classic JHP ammo as it's significantly cheaper and I'm sure every bit as effective for personal use. The lower price allows you to buy more ammo and actually practice with it which will be way more important than what kind of ammo you use.
It's just clever marketing.
While I agree with this, IMHO fed tactical is actually a pretty good deal overall. (50 round boxes, and costs less per round than gold dots, win
ranger, and cor-bon. )
I also would not use "bargain" JHP ammo unless I had data to validate that choice. Some so called "economy self defense" and some "consumer" JHP loads (for example, a lot of the Win SXT black box stuff) are so bad in testing that you might as well have just bought ball ammo instead. A lot of junk JHP loadings fail to expand- so whats the point of buying them?
-Mike
I would call Bravo Sierra on this one. Everything I have read about HST fails to mention any such restriction.
no...not bullshit...Federal claims that the 50 round boxes of HST should have never made it to the shelves of commercial retailers...for whatever reason who knows why...anyways...they were sending their reps into shops and pulling the stuff from the shelves and reimbursing the shop the cost of the ammo...they would also ask which distributor it came from...if you told them "i forget or i dunno" they would simply scan the barcode, find out which batch it came from and then could track it back to which batch went to which distributor...so no...not bravo sierra...they refuse to distribute to commercial retailers...at least in this state
no...not bullshit...Federal claims that the 50 round boxes of HST should have never made it to the shelves of commercial retailers...for whatever reason who knows why...anyways...they were sending their reps into shops and pulling the stuff from the shelves and reimbursing the shop the cost of the ammo...they would also ask which distributor it came from...if you told them "i forget or i dunno" they would simply scan the barcode, find out which batch it came from and then could track it back to which batch went to which distributor...so no...not bravo sierra...they refuse to distribute to commercial retailers...at least in this state
But us common folk can buy 20 round, plastic boxes of HST?
It may not be bullshit, but it still is on a different level.
They have 20 rd boxes of HST? I've only seen the 20 rd boxes of the old hydrashok, which interestingly cost as much as 50 rds of HST
I panic bought 550 rounds today of .45 +P