[Pessimist]

I think people go way overboard on these things.

Try to imagine a scenario in which you personally need and use several thousand rounds.

In that kind of battle, would you really survive long enough to fire several thousand rounds?

And when you’re dead, now the bad guys have all that’s left of your ammo.

[thackney]

Do not think of a single event but a lasting situation.

[DBrow]

“Try to imagine a scenario in which you personally need and use several thousand rounds.”

Imagine instead that you need a couple hundred rounds a month, and your neighbor needs about the same from you to cover his zone, and the ammo store is a burned out husk, and fedex isn’t about to drive down your block this month, or year.

[xmission]

I think people go way overboard on these things. Try to imagine a scenario in which you personally need and use several thousand rounds. In that kind of battle, would you really survive long enough to fire several thousand rounds? And when you’re dead, now the bad guys have all that’s left of your ammo.

If you plan on practicing, you can go through a whole load of ammo in a year.

I know that I went through at least 3-4 thousand rounds last year, counting rifle and handgun.