POLL: Were You Ready?

Were You Ready?

  • I have what I need

    Votes: 261 73.7%
  • I am still shopping

    Votes: 93 26.3%

  • Total voters
    354
  • Poll closed .
Status
Not open for further replies.
Joined
Feb 18, 2007
Messages
5,957
Location
NE Ohio
Were you ready for this latest panic? After surviving the Clinton era, and the first Obama election panic spree, I made it a point to get my ducks in a row. I handload extensively, and gathered up components so that I can make myself busy in the winter, as I normally do, so that my ammo is on hand for the better months. I have the weapons, ammo, and components I want and need, and related magazines and accessories. I'm figuring a lot of you were equally prepared. Were you ready, or not?,
 
At my wifes suggestion, beggining in the summer of 2008 I have kept several thousand rounds each of 9mm, .40 S&W and .223. Naturally I also have hunting ammo in sufficient supply as well as reloading components for those I reload for.

I did find myself overstocked with EBR's when the craze first found it's legs. So I traded a couple for a new shotgun and 1911. Luckily .45 ACP ammo had not been hit that hard, and I had a few hundred rounds to feed my H&K USC, so now I am up to speed on .45 also.
 
I put "still shopping", but only because I am a "buy as you need it" plinker. I don't like dipping into my substantial reserves of good (expensive) stuff just for an hour at the range.

I'm covered for anything important, though, no need to panic buy.
 
I began preparing before the passage of the GCA of '68.

What's that old saying, you can't be too tall, too rich or have too much ammo? Something like that. I have ammo...
 
I was ready on the last one and ready on this one. I always keep well stocked up; guest that boyscout stuff paid off! :D
 
I have a good stash, but its never enough. I did get caught with very little 5.56 and that has had an effect on what I shoot.
 
I suppose that I wasn't ready.

I haven't been supporting the NRA-ILA, Second Amendment Foundation, or my state-level RKBA groups as much as I should have been.

I'm not as well-connected in gun-rights circles outside of the internet as I would like to be, and I suck at meatspace grass-roots activism.

So, it would seem, I was caught unprepared.
 
I was caught ''flat footed" only in reguards to .22 cal ammo. {go figure} I handload everything else and have an ample stock of components to last a year.
 
I have what I need as far as guns, ammo, mags, etc., but I did just jump into reloading, so I voted that I'm still shopping. I do wish I'd gotten into it long ago, and stocked up along with my other stuff...
 
I have what I need, but I would like to have had more before the supply dried up, mostly more ammo and magazines.
 
I only got into reloading at Christmas so didn't have time to get 'on top of' components in time. Also my wife is against having 'stockpiles' because they take up too much room so I have some but not as much as I'd like to. This should get better when we get a bigger house.
 
I only got into reloading at Christmas so didn't have time to get 'on top of' components in time. Also my wife is against having 'stockpiles' because they take up too much room so I have some but not as much as I'd like to. This should get better when we get a bigger house.

Do you have anything stored under your bed?
 
Overstocked on everything, including spare gun parts, bullet molds and reloading supplies.

....just sitting back and watching the show.....
 
I placed 2 orders the they day of the shooting for items I had been on the fence about getting. If I had not gotten in before prices went crazy waiting or doing without would have been acceptable.

Otherwise, well stocked
 
This is all I need:

2005.jpg
 
Were you prepared before the presidential election in November? There were plenty of clues about the potential.
If people had the cash beforehand and bought nothing that they really wanted/needed, they made the personal decision to take a chance.

Everybody (who watches the news/reads newspapers etc) knew that the White House and some state governments were waiting for a disaster/mass murder in order to exploit it for an increase in govt. control.
They don't "allow any disaster to go to waste". It is All about control.
 
50/50 here. Ok on some stuff, a little light on some. I have plenty of ammo/components for my hunting rifles and magnum pistols, not as much for my 9mm's. Also a little light on .22, but I do have some.

I was planning to pick up an AR receiver and parts with my Xmas bonus, but that didn't happen. I'll wait until things settle down a bit, and if prices stay up I might just pass altogether as I have plenty of long guns already.
 
Last edited:
I suppose that I wasn't ready.

I haven't been supporting the NRA-ILA, Second Amendment Foundation, or my state-level RKBA groups as much as I should have been.

I'm not as well-connected in gun-rights circles outside of the internet as I would like to be, and I suck at meatspace grass-roots activism.

So, it would seem, I was caught unprepared.

As far as this type of preparation, not prepared. much the same boat.
I've not supported the NRA for a long time, mainly because the people they support often do not match my views outside firearms. It had appeared to me that the issue of gun control was essentially dead. How wrong I was.
For at least the next election I'll be a single issue voter. Beyond that we'll see if the point is made. For the first time in my life I've joined the NRA. I've registered (D) so I have a voice in the primaries that matter here.
 
Status
Not open for further replies.
Back
Top