“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.
Ok, even in a sustained situation.
Imagine ahving to fire several hundred rounds per month. How many months will you survive this before you get killed?
Seriously.
None of us like to think this, but I don’t think it will be like on TV, where the good guy always wins.
If you fire several hundred rounds, won’t several hundred rounds be fired back at you? Your luck really that good?
Mine isn’t.
And, as I said, whatever ammo you have left is now in the hands of the enemy.
Me, I stick with a few hundred rounds for each caliber. And that’s mainly becuase I make a long drive to buy it cheap, so while I’m out there, I stock up. (Fin Feather and Fur, in Ashland OH, in case you guys are Buckeyes.)
But the wife and I shoot every weak, so it depletes eventually.