Posted on 08/21/2011 3:13:27 PM PDT by BBell
So I'm at the local sports big box store and a clerk from the gun counter tells me that the government has chemist working on ammunition that will only have a 5 month shelf life. I tell him I never heard of this. He tells me to look it up. So I went home and I did. All I could find on the internet were rumors, nothing solid.
I ask a fellow I know who works in the sporting section at Walmart about this. He told me he has had several people ask him if our ammo is the kind with the short shelf life. He says he has never heard of ammo with a short shelf life.
Does anyone out here in Freeper land know anything about this? I think it sounds like B.S but then again nothing would surprise me with the current administration.
Right wing spoil sport. Always posting the common sense answer...
total BS
And just exactly HOW would they put that tax on? It would take a bill coming out of: THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES and it would have to get through a Cloture vote by 60 Senators. Now I know there are more than a handful of wacked out Democrats in the House & Senate that are to the left of Fidel Castro - but I guarantee you such a bill would NEVER EVER see the light of day in Committee in the House no matter how many Democrats ran it.
Okay, thanks, but I’d be willing to bet if/when things get worse i.e. more and more gang shootings that at least some states (IL, MI, CA) would enact some sort of high tax.
There were urban legends during the early days of the Clintonista regime about this. If I remember it correctly, the primers were the fictitious target of obsolescence. This caused a run on existing stocks.
Many of us simply discovered the merits of surplus ammo about this time. I can remember buying surplus 7.62x51 NATO for a little as 15 cents a round. A hundred dollar bill would get you over a thousand rounds of commie 7.62x39.
Those days are gone.
I wonder what spoiled bullets would smell like.
“Honey, fer cryin’ out loud will you throw out those bullets, they are stinking the place up”
Could happen maybe on a state level? I’m thinking of Chicago, IL - lots of gang shooting going on. Maybe the governor would do an executive order of some sort. Who knows. But I think that attacking the gun issue from the bullet side would somehow affect gun control in some way. They couldn’t go to another state to buy un-taxed bullets because you’d have to show a DL to buy them.
The spreading of such false rumors is what precipitated the "Hillary Panic of 1993" and caused massive over-buying of primers by gullible consumers which resulted in a genuine shortage for over a year.
I spent my career working for the largest ammunition manufacturer and spent 7 years as the "Primer Engineer". The technology described does not exist and will not exist. Period!
It is an extreme disservice to propagate such unfounded rumors.
Wasn’t there something also about only allowed two boxes of bullets per purchase per month or something? I remember going with my dad to Cabela’s and the lady behind the counter mentioned something that it’d go into effect in July of 2009?
oh good grief.
uh...it ain’t happening.
Who knows. Lot’s of kookie things coming out of Congress of late.
- To solve the problem of your gun not firing, we suggest you do a clean install. This will consist of complete dis-assembly of your gun, your house, and your neighbors house, and then reassembly.
- We strongly suggest you upgrade to Bullets 7.0
- Try racking the slide of your gun three times, while simultaneously moving the holster loop back and forth and applying the safety on alternate steps. If this doesn't fix the problem, a clean install is recommended.
- Your gun not firing is actually a feature not a bug, designed into the bullets to prevent you from damaging your hearing.
The Steve Jobs' version is even worse: You only get to keep licensing the ammo, and the license agreement requires you to give the rights to all your guns to Apple.
Never interrupt a good panic attack with a reliable first hand observation, Buffalo Head. {grin}
For the sake of playing, “what if?”
Suppose electric ignition arms and cartridges became popular some day in the future.... THIS technology could easily be corrupted.
Pure, 100% unadulterated BS.
Anything that would break down would be absolutely unreliable in a firearm. In fact, I’d be willing to bet that it wouldn’t fire at all on the date of manufacture.
Ammunition can last over a hundred years or more, depending upon the method of storage.
Vanity: Just reloadded 2000rnds of 9mm today. My locker is nearly full ;)
That’s B.S. perpetuated by anti-Second-Amendment homos. Such ammo would cause squibs and get many people killed.
Ummm, you can make your own powder...
World’s oldest recipe.
Another object of the invention is to provide an explosive detonator or cartridge primer that uses an inorganic reactive multilayer to ignite the standard chemical initiators used in commercially available detonators and primers.If legislation came out banning all ammo except the above ammo, then the government could cut off ammo supplies at any time. Of course, any attempt by the government to do so would immediately be seen for what it was.Another object of the invention is to provide methods for fabricating limited-life cartridge primers wherein the functional service life of the primer can be predetermined by the structural design and material composition selected for the inorganic reactive multilayer (RML) used as the primary initiator.
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