2012 Shortage/Hoarding Mega Thread

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Old Krow,

Hahaha as soon as I read your last post I thought "sounds like the local one here" then I seen your location and IT IS HERE haha. I am in Gulfport and the one on 49 is terrible. But if you pick up the phone on the desk and just start hitting number they come help you real quick haha.
 
Old Krow,

Hahaha as soon as I read your last post I thought "sounds like the local one here" then I seen your location and IT IS HERE haha. I am in Gulfport
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I know. I just brought you a couple k primers :)
 
Already saw a sign that said, " Do to price increase of ammo do not expect a warning shot"!
 
To quote Clint Eastward "Thats just the way it is"

Clint Eastward used that line in several of his movies and it really holds true.
Complain all you want but there will be a gun/ammo shortage and it will
be alot worse then last time !!!
Its has started already. My local Bass Pro shops pistol counter is half emty.
No Beratta's for a couple of months. 9mm is put on the shelf and gone the same day.
One thing going on is the once a week shooters, like myself, who used to buy
just what they needed. A couple of hundred rounds. Now they have started buying alot more to stock up.
So many new gun owners now then just a few years ago.
Apprehension of obama being reelected and going after our guns.
By the way, Romney will win !!!
And then you have the preppers. Prepping for all kinds of end of the world events.
Wait until we get closer to Dec 21st, things are going to get crazy !!!
And, not only at the gun counter. People are going to start hoarder everyday things, food etc.
If anything strange happens a few months before Dec 21st, this will multiple things 10 fold !!!!
I do believe nothing really will happen on Dec 21st but try and tell that to the millions of preppers in this world.
And then we have the internet !!!
Posts like mine will be in the millions, for everyone to panic about!!!
Yep, Whether we like it or not things are gonna happen.
"Thats just the way it is"
 
There will soon be a run on ammo. Its an election year, and while people fear Obama may sign anti gun legislation, they also know Romney is just as bad on the subject. When you add in worries about impending economic collapse, Trayvon Martin riots, and the general popularity of shows like "Doomsday Preppers", you can count on the fact that there will soon be a run on guns and ammo.
 
Just returned from large gunshow in Portland and saw plenty of ammo, priced slightly higher than what you can find on the internet, and no sign of anyone buying large quantities. Not even that many people were stopping to look.
 
It seems like a lot of people posting here WANT to see an ammo shortage and/or mass buying of guns and ammo. :what:

I don't think that "fearmongering" and pushing people to hurry up and buy it while it's still there is a very productive way to do much of anything, even if it is marginally effective in the short term.

I do think that it's a good idea to stock up on ammunition, but there's no reason to go into a buying frenzy - there's plenty to go around, even if my local Walmarts tend to not stock ammo as reliably as they do in other places, but then I live near Tallahassee, which houses one of the largest universities in the nation, and another very large university. It's my observation that in places with even just one large university, the balance of anti-gun folks vs. pro-gun folks is weighted towards the antis. This ends up making things a little more difficult for us pro-gunners to get locally.
 
It seems like there's a similar thread to this on many forums. I'm not saying it's without merit, but at some point it become a self fulfilling prophesy. Personally, I've been able to find whatever I need. Sometimes I just have to shop around a little more.
 
The only shortage I've seen so far is small pistol primers. Maybe things won't be as bad as last time but I've got 12,000 primers stored, just in case.
 
It seems to be hard to get Federal M193....but I was able to get cheap PPU M193...so I'm happy.
 
Something to consider is the real horders are probably filled up by now. They were the ones who went to Wally's every morning and bought whatever they could carry. They are the ones who double stacked their already huge supply the last few years as the stock increased and prices came down a bit. Also, there are those who learned from the last time to buy a box or two or a brick here and there "just in case". When this next "shortage" occurs I doubt it will last as long or go as deep as the last one. People learned that in time the supplies return and this time around the sreious horders won't be buying as much and the "smart" buyers will be happily sitting on their stash. Yes, there will be a shortage but not as bad as last time. Too many players are sitting this one out.
 
Am I the only one who thinks a shortage could be a good thing?
When it makes the news that there is a gun and/or ammo shortage then it raises awareness to just how large and powerful the shooting community is. Politicans don't generally want to upset a large and therefore politically powerful group.

As a matter of fact they want to suck up to them, which in this case would be us!!! I don't know about you but I don't mind spending a little more and looking a little harder for what I want if it'll help the cause.



I say bring on the shortage. Put it on the news, report high sales, talk about it none stop till it eventually dies out and things return to normal. In the mean time I'll do my part and stock up even more and maybe the antis will find it good time to shut up and sit out on a few votes.



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Am I the only one who thinks a shortage could be a good thing?
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More than likely.

I do agree with your direction of thought though....sad thing is, the only ones who really know and are paying attention ARE the shooters. This information usually isn't in possession of those who don't allready shoot.

I'm not sure that ammo shortages are at levels they are front line news-worthy yet...at least I havent seen any.


I would welcome the day, however, when I go to grab the NYT and the headline is:

"SHOOTING COMMUNITY SO LARGE, AMMO COMPANIES CAN'T MEET DEMAND" That will however, be a really hard week to buy ammo........
 
I don't recall the last ammo shortage making the front pages or the 10:00 news. It was big on the gun forums and publications but it seemed to lay low in the mainstream media. Also, you don't hear how all the gun makers can't meet demand right now. That is news to people like us but you surely don't see it on MSNBC or FOX, CNN or any of the big boys.
 
I went to Walmart last week and the cupboards getting a little bare there. Some other guy was there waiting on the the guy to open the display case to get ammo. He took forever to get there.

Anyway, me and the other guy waiting on ammo struck up a coversation about ammo and the guns they have there. Long story short, I said that I was probably going to get a box of 9mm and maybe a box of .45. They had 6 boxes of 9mm on the shelf.

Finally the store clerk comes and opens the case and asks the guy what he needs. He said " I'll take your last six boxes of 9mm".

:banghead: :cuss: @*#+*&@!
 
I stock up on ammo because it makes me feel good and I like it.
Fear-mongering and Doomsday stuff don't really play a big part.

The thing I enjoy the most is when the Fed Ex truck pulls up in my yard with a couple cases of brand new shiny ammo, and me and the Fed EX guy go shoot a few off before he leaves for his next delivery.
Livin' in the country is great!

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In the past month, I have bought:

7k bullets
20 lbs of powder
12k primers
7k rimfire rounds.

So, am I preparing for the hoard or just another one of the hoarders?:D
 
Finally the store clerk comes and opens the case and asks the guy what he needs. He said " I'll take your last six boxes of 9mm".
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That guy was a total jerk! I hope he's reading this forum or a guy who would have done the exact same thing. Jerks like that give us (gun owners) a bad name. I hope that guys 9mm gets locked up and he has to pay $$$ to get it fixed. What a tool.
 
If Romney is elected, I think you'll like the 2A situation much better than some of you expect.

First, the 2A situation is being sorted out very much in our favor by the judiciary. We have a decade or two of litigation ahead of us, but Heller and McDonald are now settled law and SCOTUS will not reconsider them. SCOTUS policy is that once a decision is made, it only gets revisited and overturned under the most compelling circumstances.

Second, Romney is focused on the economy and shrinking government. If an issue does not fit that focus, he's not very interested in it. Nor should he be, as long as the judiciary is doing the heavy hauling. All he has to do is stay out of the way, and he will.

Third, Paul Clement seems to be at the top of Romney's SCOTUS appointment list. You could hardly find a more capable and pro-2A jurist. The judges Romney appoints will be the most important and lasting of his 2A legacy.

Neutral is VASTLY better than corrupt and anti-2A.

And we now have a local shortage of pistol primers. Like some others, if I have an extra few bucks toward the end of the month, I pick up some powder, primers, bullets or 22LR so the thought of a shortage doesn't trouble me personally. Plus I'm glad to help friends who need to come over and do some reloading if the stores are out.
 
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