[RKV]

PLEASE, don't even get CLOSE to your last 1000 rounds. Remember to BE PREPARED. Personally, I go ammo shopping when I get near 3000 (including my .22 LR stash).

[Arthalion]

Seriously? I don't think I've ever had more than 500 rounds in the safe, and I probably only have about 150 right now. What the heck do you shoot that burns so much ammo?

Of course, there are so few gun stores around here that our prices are a bit outrageous. I'd go broke storing a few thousand rounds away.

[tcostell]

I live in NJ. Recently on gunbroker.com there was a fraud case where a guy from N. Carolina exploited the global shortage of 7.62x39mm ammunition and conned 28 people out of buying some at slightly discounted prices. I (I'm embarrassed to say) was one of those people.

Most of the options for online fraud start with notifying your local police department but after careful consideration I've decided not to do so. I felt I would rather lose the $49 it will cost me than call attention to the fact that I was trying to buy rifle ammunition in bulk.

I've broken no laws, and I'm completely within my rights, even in New Jersey, but I know that the firearms rules change with the political wind here, and I don't want the police showing up to seize my lawfully purchased personal property.

It's particularly risky because my firearm of choice for the 7.62x39mm bullet is a Romanian WASR-10 which to the untrained eye might look a lot like an AK-47. The NJ assault weapons ban is the most horribly written and subjectively enforced regulation in the country and it basically gives the authorities the right to do whatever they want to you.

I'm a prosperous man (that the lord) so I would have the means to battle it out in court if it came to that, and knowing that tends to make the local politicians and police a little more respectful, but I'd rather avoid the hassle all the same.

So thanks to the New Jersey gun laws, yet another criminal gets to go free while a law abiding citizen has to hide from potential persecution.

[absolootezer0]

(including my .22 LR stash).

.22 rimfires should not be included in your ammo count. you can usually get 1,000 rounds for a $20.