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    The BFR in 45/70

    Big, fine revolver? Bodacious, fantastic revolver? Bad, favored revolver? Biological, forceful revolver? In any case the name would seem to carry more than a passing resemblance to the classic BFG-3000, so perhaps they'd have more information about the acronym.
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    Retail insider's info on the current ammo shortage

    Xwrench, there are 300 million guns in the US, and 10 billion rounds produced per year for the sporting markets. Even if half the guns are safe queens/in retiree's attics, that's basically a stockpile of 1-3 boxes (60 rounds) per gun without any shooting!
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    2 stainless steel .357's... can't get them polished enough. Need help

    Your polish is too fine to quickly smooth the marks. You can polish it for a long time, slowly working it down, or switch to a coarser material (and then switch to progressively finer polishes). To find the right starting grit find a piece of scrap metal with a similar finish and test larger...
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    My Walmart Random Time Ammo Sales

    I won't speak for Sam but business licenses are just a modest form of rent seeking (basically limiting competition by making it marginally more difficult to enter business). I'd be surprised if he weren't against them, as well. Also, the whole point of a market system is to allocate a good...
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    No disrespect intended.

    My range days end with me looking like this: http://godandgunsblog.files.wordpress.com/2013/03/hot-shots-2-charlie-sheen-29901707-1500-2281.jpg
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    Latest Emails from the NRA Change in Tone

    I know this is a good point in theory, but in practice it seems like both parties don't really fear losing an NRA A rating (Toomey had one as did at least one Democratic senator who voted for the bill) unless there's a risk they'll loose soon (all the Democratic senators who voted against the...
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    My Walmart Random Time Ammo Sales

    The others aren't waiting, they're going about their day, they come when called that the observed store has demanded product in stock. Dick's is predictable in that new stock is almost always there when the store opens only, so it's not like the whole clan is milling around the store all the...
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    My Walmart Random Time Ammo Sales

    At least around here, the scalper just watches, but upon stock arriving, they have a network of family/friends who collectively buy (a married couple and small extended family only needs one watcher but could easily buy a full case of ammo with 3 box limits several cases with 3 box/caliber limits).
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    My Walmart Random Time Ammo Sales

    12many, Without access to distributor invoices, I/m not sure. Winchester's parent talks about increased unit revenue (ie higher prices) that rose coming mostly because the product favored higher priced sporting channels rather than police/government channels (which are generally at lower...
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    My Walmart Random Time Ammo Sales

    Impureclient, The whole point of a market based system is that prices are information, by holding them steady and limiting purchases the information doesn't rapidly flow to the producers to invest in new supply, to hoarders that now is the time to realize profits, or to buyers to stop buying...
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    What's your favorite firearm activity to do?

    I can certainly understand that feeling. For some reason I never feel like something is "mine" until I've gotten it stripped enough to see each part's function, once done, it's usually up there for a good long time, but anything new is sort of black boxish until I see it working in 3-D space...
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    Will you buy from dealers at shows?

    At the local, big show there's always a few busy tables staffed by at least one young, pretty girl. I've always been amazed that more of the other dealers haven't taken note of that.
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    Run on ammunition:

    Based on those numbers, many people buying probably normally shoot rarely (likely less than once every two years). If 10% of the guns out there were getting a box a month that's the entire production! I'd guess that in normal times that's much more likely to be what happens 30million guns...
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    Run on ammunition:

    Here's why there's a run on ammo. NRA estimates 10 billion rounds are made annually for the domestic market. And it's an oft cited statement that there are 300 million guns in the US (and that was before the recent boom). Simple division means that there are 33 rounds (less than a 50...
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    Ruger: 2,000,000 orders on backlog

    Here's the likely source of that chart: http://imgur.com/G3UtJAn It's Ruger's orders and sell through data from their conference call yesterday. What's interesting to me is that they've been able to nearly double unit production in about 18 months (they hit their first million unit year in...
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    Looking for a single action

    Sharps that Myrtle wood is gorgeous! Very nice! Did you decide on a grip maker/wood species? I've been slowly making some from Goncalo Alves, waiting for the pore filling finish to cure, but they're shaping up reasonably well, for a first try. If I had a piece big enough, my next choice...
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    Are armed citizens overrated?

    Urea nitrate is a high explosive that only requires air, water, urine, a transformer (and some chemistry equipment).
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    Are armed citizens overrated?

    I suspect the difference in outlook is that your standard seems to be to directly overthrow the military backed government, when our point is the goal is to make it impossible for the government to provide the services that even tyrants must. When the bread, circuses, and safety are impossible...
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    Are armed citizens overrated?

    I brought them up because all three were situations where massive manhunts occurred and failed to find them until civillian tips led to their discovery. When civillians aided the fugitive (in the Atlanta case) he evaded capture for several years. Also these were isolated, a million guerrillas...
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