Our shop is always adding the latest, most popular products to our shelves! We are also one of the few shops carrying lead-free ammo in Orange County! We are dedicated to providing unbeatable service and competitive prices.
Please note: product pricing and inventory for ALL LAX retail stores are different from LAX’s on-line website (it has been this way since the very beginning). The reason for this is because it costs significantly more to run a brick-and-mortar store in CALIFORNIA (CA DOJ law implementation operating costs, rent, utilities, insurance, taxes, employees, general operating costs, etc). Don’t believe us? Then WHY aren’t some of the online ammo sellers opening up stores in CA to compete with us? Because you CANNOT sell ammo in CA at the on-line prices and still cover overhead. Once you factor in shipping and receiving fees, our prices are often not much different from the online retailers. Some of the difference in pricing is made up in the shipping costs for on-line retailers like LAXAMMO.com. We do not list our pricing and inventory on our OC website because the cost to build and maintain such a database is extremely costly, and in an effort to keep our overhead down (and thus our in-store pricing lower), we are not implementing on-line pricing and inventory at this time.
LET’S ADDRESS SOME QUESTIONS:
Why don’t we accept ammo purchased online from laxammo.com? For one, our OC Huntington Beach location is independently owned and operated and a separate business from laxammo.com. We don’t have the capability to connect with or coordinate with our parent company to accept online orders. Secondly, we don’t have the space at our store and the small fee we’re allowed to charge would not cover our overhead. We also get taxed on the ammo we receive, so we would have to keep a completely separate set of books just for orders received, again not worth it. So, it’s not that we “hate Californian’s,” it just isn’t feasible from a space and profitability standpoint for our HB store.
Why can’t we accept online orders from other online vendors like gun stores do? Because we’re not a gun store. All we sell is ammo. We aren’t selling guns or offering gun smithing services. It benefits gun stores to bring you in to pick up your ammo order from another retailer, because that generates potential gun buyers for them. And to that point, it’s ammo from a competitor. Asking us to accept an on-line order from another on-line retailer is like asking Target to accept a Wal-Mart order. Their answer would also be “no,” and no one would question that.
Why are our prices (usually) higher than on-line retailers? Because we are operating a brick-n-mortar retail store in one of the most expensive states to run a business (let alone a business California hates) and we like to pay our employees well. Rent (our location is convenient for you, expensive for us), insurance, taxes (we’re even taxed on employee payroll!), utilities, DOJ regulation costs and countless other operating costs all contribute to the cost of running a business in CA. Most on-line ammo retailers operate in other states out of a warehouse where rent is cheap, taxes, utilities and insurance are low, and they probably pay minimum wage. If we sold our ammo at their prices, we’d be unable to keep our doors open or our team paid. We wouldn’t exist, and anti-gun California wins at snuffing out another 2-A business.
Why are your ammo prices (sometimes) higher than some of the local gun or outdoorsman shops? Because we only sell ammo. The other guys sell guns, ammo, fishing supplies, camping supplies…lots of other merch where they can make up the difference with fatter margins to cover operating costs.
Are you just trying to take advantage of Californians because you think you can charge them higher prices because of the restrictive ammo laws? NO! PLEASE SEE ABOVE Q&As. It’s honestly upsetting and hurtful that anyone would ever accuse us of that; but I read the few angry Yelp reviews or Reddit rants of misguided patrons, and I know the sentiment is out there. I remind myself that most (if not all) are not business owners in California, and cannot possibly fathom the expense of running a 2-A business here. We have fought the ammo laws from day one. We have a whole page dedicated to explaining it and encouraging patrons to join CRPA, FPC and GOA to fight these laws. We do our best to run a business, pay our employees well and make a living. We love our 2A community and are working damn-hard to even exist in CA. If we didn’t, you’d have even less choices and access to ammunition. Thank you to our patrons who realize that and thank us every day for keeping our doors open :-)
Our brick-and-mortar store in Huntington Beach, California is a great place for Southern California residents to purchase their ammunition, reloading supplies, and components, range gear, gun safes and firearms accessories. The benefits of shopping in-store are:
Rounds available in rifle, shotgun, handgun, target, home-defense, hunting.
Winchester
Hornady
Barnes
Cor-Bon
Federal
Federal Premium
Fiocchi
Remington
PMC
Underwood Ammunition
Prvi Partizan
Magtech
TulAmmo
Geco
Polycase
HEVI-Shot shotgun
American Eagle
CCI
Aguila
LAX Ammunition
Blazer
Eley
Red Army Standard
Maxxtech
Perfecta
G2 Research
Freedom Munitions
Browning
Armscor
FNH
ZQI
**And many more
In April 2015, the Fish and Game Commission adopted CDFW’s proposed regulations, which will implement the nonlead requirement in the following three phases:
For more information about nonlead ammunition requirements in California, please visit: https://www.wildlife.ca.gov/hunting/nonlead-ammunition
We carry a large selection of California legal hunting ammunition.
Rounds available in Rifle, Shotgun, Handgun, .22
CCI
Barnes
Hornady
Cor-Bon
G2 Research
Inceptor
Dupleks
Winchester
Underwood Ammunition
Fort Scott Munitions
