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There’s no doubt about it — Alaskans like their guns. But there’s only so much you can do with a gun without bullets.
This past year, those have been harder than ever to come by.
Alaska and the rest of the U.S. Are deep in an ammunition shortage, likely due to a confluence of current events and production setbacks.
It’s impacted businesses like Brenda Trefren’s. She runs the firearms training company Majority Arms out of Sterling.
“If we don’t have ammo, we don’t have students,” she said. “So it’s pretty serious for us.”
People following the firearm industry, like Michael Modrell, said the shortage has a lot to do with the unrest of the last year.
Modrell manages Soldotna Ammo Supply on K-Beach Road. He said gun stores saw spikes in gun and ammo sales when COVID-19 first came to the U.S. Last March.
But that uptick was pretty minor in Alaska. He said more people came in to get guns and ammunition during the Black Lives Matter protests in the Lower 48. That happened again before the November election.
There’s always an uptick in firearm and ammo sales around elections. But this one was next level — and bipartisan.
“I knew people who got into guns because they assumed Trump was going to win and they felt their side was going to be further marginalized,” Modrell said. “And then other people bought guns because they thought Trump might not win, and if a Democrat won it would be harder for them to get guns and ammo.”
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