Or just .22 l.r. ?

30 years ago while working at a gun store ,
I remember selling 6 or 8 bricks of . 22 a week.

But never any other caliber.

Do you buy bricks of 9mm or 5.56 or .357 ?

I don’t know about all ammo, but common calibers yes. Certainly 9mm and .223 can be bought in bulk packs of 1000, a “case”, but I’ve seen lots of packages of 250 or 500 rounds, usually a group of individual boxes with an outer box or packaging. Maybe only the .22 is called a “brick” due to its size.

I've purchased 9mm, 5.56, and a few other military calibers in cases. Small boxes holding 20-50 rounds stacked inside a sturdy cardboard box holding 500-1200 rounds total.

They didn't call it a brick, but yeah same thing as 22lr bricks except much heavier.

I wonder if the term brick refers to the weight? Or the number of rounds or the dimensions ?
Of the package.

Yeah a brick of 500 .22LR is 10 50-round boxes in a pack about the size of a brick.

I just bought a case of 1000 Magtech 9mm. Guess it could be a cinder block.

I recently purchased 3-150rd boxes of 5.7 ammo. The 3-boxes came in a box about the size of a brick.

Buddy of mine bought a pallet of 308 match ammo once. They delivered it to the PD. Me and another cop checked busy and split the load up and drove it in out pickups to James’ farm for him-he tried to pay the truck driver to do it but he wasn’t haveing any of it.

And I mean a pallet. Three feet high. Impressive to say the least.

500 22rds in a box, looked a bit like a brick.

If you go back to when 22 ammo was tightly packed in 50 round cardboard boxes without dividers between the cartridges a carton of ten boxes was about the size of a brick hence the term.

I think it’s because of weight? Maybe a brick of 22 is about the size of a brick?


This was a few months ago. I ordered 16000 rounds of 9mm. It came in 16 cases off the semi.

Just out of curiosity, what kind of a deal do you get with 16,000 rds?

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A brick of 22LR ammo is a 500-round case of cartridges, containing ten 50-round boxes arranged in a 2×5 formation. While its shape and size may resemble those of an actual brick, a brick of 22 LR makes for terrible construction material! AmmoForSale

As far as I know, "brick" only applies to .22 ammo.

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Originally posted by maxwayne:
Just out of curiosity, what kind of a deal do you get with 16,000 rds?

Buy 15,900
Get 100 free

I don't even see, or don't remember seeing it for a long time, .22 coming in "bricks" of 500 (10x 50-round boxes about the size of a building brick) any more. It always seems to be, for example, 325 rounds loosely in a small bucket.

Seems like "bricks" of .22 are a bit of a vintage item now.

Kkina picture worth a thousand words of course.
Egregore higher quality European ammo still comes in bricks ( the domestic makers with the limited exception of CCI having foregone quality for quantity a long time ago) but they are slightly larger than old school bricks due to the use of plastic trays that separate each round individually.

The only thing I see is bulk boxes of 9mm or battle packs.

No larger calibers come in cases. Once in a while some manufacturers will sell a 250 count case or something along those lines.

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Originally posted by jimmy123x:
No larger calibers come in cases. Once in a while some manufacturers will sell a 250 count case or something along those lines.

Define larger calibers. I’ve bought 9mm, 357 Sig, 40 S&W, and 45ACP all in 1000 round cases. 223 has typically been in 500 round cases, same with 556, though I have got some 1000 round cases of IMI 556, and also some 1200 round cases of IMI 556. I think the GECO 556 might have also come in 1000 round boxes, but I’d have to check. 308 Win seems to have been in 200 round cases, at least in my experience. I thought the 762x51 came in larger cases, 500s? but it has been long enough that I don’t remember and would have to go look.

ETA: Nobody told CCI that 22lr doesn’t come in bricks anymore:
https://palmettostatearmory.co...-40gr-rn-500rds.html

https://www.midwayusa.com/product/1301133745/

https://www.targetsportsusa.co...ose-0021-p-1357.aspx

PSA and Midway USA are out of bricks, but Target Sports USA says they have 99+ of them.

Nope. I remember getting Winchester White Box of 100 rounds of 9mm at Walmart.... before they stopped selling ammo at certain locations. It came in a plain box, everything was loose.