MtnCreek
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I can’t wait to start hearing about folks that bought $900 AR’s for $1200 in hopes to flip them for $1800. Once something has become the obvious investment, it’s typically too late to get in.
Buy some batteries and do not worry about status quo. It will help you greatly if you avoid places or locations in larger stores where guns and ammo are sold.ok, i get why a lot of things are being bought because of the possibility of gun control laws. firearms, ammo, reloading components for many things. but i do not understand some things. certainly they will not outlaw 22 long rifle ammunition. to do that would be certain political suicide for all concerned. i do not believe that the ridiculous "high capacity" 22 long rifle law new york passed will stand up to the test of time either. it is just plain stupid. and all it will take to defeat it is someone willing to put up the money to defend the rights of the people. the same goes for certain calibers of hunting rounds. like the 30-30. to outlaw that would be to outlaw well over 100 years of family tradition hunting and firearms that have been handed down from one generation to the next for more decades and scores than i care to talk about. since no one to my knowledge has ever produced a semi auto 30-30, you would think that this caliber would be exempt from anything but totally insane legislation. i was going to the same for the 45-70, but the original "machine gun" took care of that. those are just two of the most obvious calibers that crossed my mind. i know there are MANY others. if i owned a ak-47, or 74, or anything even remotely tied to the "assault weapon" theme that the crazed politicians are homing in on, i would be buying up anything i could get my hands on as well. but some things just make no sense to me about all of this. whats next, shotgun shells? muzzle loading projectiles, powder, and caps?
The 2014 elections will only keep the shortage in place as the Second Amendment will be a major issue as it will be in the 2016 elections. It may very well be 2017/2018 before we see daylight.
.....Here is how I see it.
Step 1 - trying to be pushed through right now but they do not want to stop us from hunting (lie)
Step 2 - we do not need guns to hunt, bow hunting is all the natives needed.
Step 3 - cave men got by just fine with spears.
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Two things:If people just bought what they shot, and maybe kept a couple hundred rounds on hand in case of an emergency - all you'd really need - there would be no shortage. I don't get the mentality of hoarding ammo like that, but then again I don't have to.
I'm one of those that some might say were too stupid to prepare. Actually, I never had the money to buy ten thousand rounds of every caliber I might want to shoot. Now that I can't find ammo for anything but my .38, I've started fishing more in my free time. Things are working out just fine, when you look at it from that perspective.
I can’t wait to start hearing about folks that bought $900 AR’s for $1200 in hopes to flip them for $1800. Once something has become the obvious investment, it’s typically too late to get in.
A good observation. Normally I would shoot only 50 rounds of 22lr a month. Now that 9mm,40s&w and 45acp ate near imposdible o find I shoot 22lr. That means buying more than usual.I don't think it's panic buyers so much as shooters who find their preferred cartridge more expensive to feed than even costly .22 so switch and a resparking of interest in shootin bringing a whole bunch of owners of a .22 who hadn't shot it in some time deciding it's time to get a box or two to brush up. I've seen reasonable guesses that in normal times only a box or two of .22 is made per gun which means there is likely normally a large portion of .22 shooters that are rarely fed and what's changed is that many of them are nowowned by people who want to shoot them.
It's just frustrating when folks go a little crazy before they have to.