Are You Hoarding Ammo?

humanevents.com ^ | 03/31/2009 | Ross Kaminsky

[FreedomPoster]

But DUUUUUUUDE! Your picture has a COMMMA! YARRRRRGH!!

;-P

I needed an excuse to go to the gun show this weekend. I think that might well provide it.

[nina0113]

...I’ve one gargantuan and morbidly obese neighbor ... says “I don’t worry about that stuff. I know where all the food is. When the times comes I’ll just take it.

He'd best watch out, or when the time comes he might BE it.

[ExSoldier]

Barack Obama said he would like to ban concealed carry permits. Now that Obama is President, Gunsmoke’s concealed carry courses are selling out class after class (50 people in each) in addition to their 3-day pistol classes, which are already sold out through June.

I've gotta admit, the demand for my own ccw courses has gone through the roof since the election and I don't even advertise! My classes are usually done "on demand" when word of mouth reaches a level that requires me to schedule a class. Usually these days I teach groups: Friends or family who all want the permit together or parents who want their carry permit & who wish to "gun proof" their children.

I just completed an intensive piece of consulting work for a guy who's the CEO of a firm that sells Kidnap & Ransom Insurance to businessmen having to conduct deals on foreign soil. They're all terrified of being kidnapped. This gentleman told me that he has contacts in the special forces associations for the various services and he routinely pays those folks to extract a kidnap victim when there is real fear that hostages might be harmed even if the ransom is paid in a timely fashion. He said the movie Proof of Life is a very accurate depiction of reality. I gave he and his wife the ccw permit course AND I taught his kids "gun safety" AND I performed a written assessment of the grounds of his estate for security upgrades that could be performed.

[LadyPilgrim]

I wouldn’t tell anyone if I did.

[Senator_Blutarski]

I prefer holding hands,discussing my innermost ‘feelings’ and singing kumbaya as a tool to keep me protected from the problems created by capitalism and Christianity.

Thankfully you are not singing "kumbaya" by an evil, carbon spouting campfire!

[Eye of Unk]

I visit quite a few gun and shooting forums and recently there has been a disturbing trend of people buying guns but not getting any ammo because there isn’t any.

So what is happening is these people are targeting those they know like co-workers, neighbors etc. and are demanding that they share some ammo.

Now I am all for an organized movement to rescue America but there is now way I am going to part with items I worked for and developed.

Right now its not the fear of the feds taking guns, its the nosy neighbor, its your fellow workers and of course there are the ones that need ammo to have in order to rob and kill.

Ammunition vigilance is the keyword here, it is having an effect like news of a gold discovery. By all means share if you wish but keep in mind that if you had your hands on it especially if its a reload it may also have your DNA and prints and if that ammo was used in a felony those CSI’s can trace it back.

America is approaching the Wild West way of life soon. Or perhaps in a more illustrious manner like the TV series, Firefly. There is evil afoot, it has no mercy, it acts illogically and has superior firepower, we fight, we withdraw to attack again.

[stevie_d_64]

Good solid pistols!

[Noumenon]

Hog feedin’ time...

[RIGHTWING WACKO FROM MASS.]

Here’s a link to save $10 http://www.shootingusa.com/LATEST_UPDATES/NRA_news/NRA_Membership/nra_membership.html

[NavyCanDo]

Somebodies hoarding it. Here in the Northwest ammo has been in short supply. I have heard from gun owner friends that the ammo shelves in the stores have been depleted since January and what you could find is being sold at inflated prices. I checked it out for my self on Sunday and they are right. Plenty of shotgun shells, and some less used calibers of bullets, but common bullets calibers were gone from the shelves. And I do mean gone.

[stevie_d_64]

Only the lots predating WWII...

[GBA]

Guns? Ammo? No, no...of course not. What I had I sold. Nothing left. No guns here. Just a good citizen living a peaceful, conformist life in Amerika.

[ExSoldier]

When the store gets a shipment of ammo, particularly .45, 9mm, and .38 handgun ammunition, “people come in and they buy it all.”

Actually I have a close buddy from my IDPA club that works at Bass Pro and he told me that it's a tad more complex than mere self service customers buying ammo for personal use these days (since the election). As primary wholesale sources get tight or even dry up, local retailers are buying the discounted ammo deals from the bigger stores for resale. So, somebody who works at Wal Mart might slip the local gunshop a call to alert them (for a small fee of course) of a shipment arriving and within hours the shelves are dry because local dealers have cleared the warehouses of entire unopened pallets before it even reaches the shelves. Don't look for this pattern to change anytime soon, either.

[Tijeras_Slim]

What’s ammo?

[TChris]

I wish the folks with 10,000 rounds or more would back off for a while. Some of us would LOVE to be able to get up to a few hundred rounds, but they’re nowhere to be found.

[TC Rider]

Nope, not hoarding. I had enough finished ammo and components on hand for 40-50k when Obama came in.

I have bought another 5k of .45 bullets, but that’s what I’ll use over the next 6 months.

I load .32, .38, .44 and .45

I still buy my 9mm and .223, but will wait for things to settle down on prices before buying more.

[Wonder Warthog]

"NO, I always keep plenty on hand ...."

Warthog's Law: If you think you have enough ammo, you don't.

[From The Deer Stand]

Free NRA Membership

[Eye of Unk]

I remember telling everyone back in dec-january to buy ammo, I guess the word got out.

[stevie_d_64]

hehehe...

That happens a lot from what I hear...