- June 16, 2021
- Posted by: Stratford Team
- Category: Business
There’s no doubt about it — Alaskans like their guns.
But there’s only so much you can do with a gun without bullets. And this past year, those have been harder than ever to come by.
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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…
