A little Ammo Justice!

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The PX (Post Exchange) on Fort Sill has 500.000 rounds of .223 Tula ammo in, sure it's the steel cased stuff but I had no complaint since it was only 30 dollars per 100 dollar box :) I picked up 2 and plan to SHOOT it not pawn it off of 2-3x it's worth.

I picked up the maximum of 2 boxes so i'm happy, i'll be going to the range on Friday/Saturday
 
Oh fer crying out loud. Really? You know what? Who cares who buys what with THEIR money? So what? It's THEIR money. If they wanna resell it, fine. Someone may buy it, or not. If someone can't afford the asking price, then they can't buy it. It's not their stuff.

Guess what, there are plenty of things people can't afford. If someone get's angry because they can't afford the 'gouge' price for ammo to support a 1000 round per week shooting hobby, so what? That's not the sellers problem. If someone can pay 5 bucks per box for 6 boxes of .223, then that same person can afford 30 bucks for that same box. Without trying to go too far down the rabbit hole of 'necessity' and 'need', that 30 round box can certainly fill the 'need' for normal home defense, but that price is a little high for 'plinking', unless you have a lot of expendable cash.

So this all seems like griping because someone is angry because the ammo has gotten too expensive to be able to just blast away. That stinks for sure, but come ON. Some people like to joyride for hundreds of miles in their cars, but the price of gas has gotten to where that is impossible for some. But they can still afford the gas to go to work.

To get mad at the 'haves' because you happen to be one of the possible 'have nots' is about the stupidest thing ever. And then when you throw the whole F word in there (fair), you just lose people.

Don't like the 'gouge' price, don't buy it. If you NEED it, you'll buy enough of it, it just may not be as much as you WANT.

And who is anyone to dictate what a 'fair' (there goes that word again) price for something is? No one is forcing anyone to buy it. If someone wants to bargain for a better deal on a car, let him. If someone is not able to bargain as well, and is ok with the deal THEY get, then that's 'fair' enough.

Quit hating. I wish things were back to 'normal' too, but it is what it is. When it does get back to normal, stock up.
 
This thread explains why it is futile for those w/o connections to shop for ammo at Walmart. Walmart employees alert certain people of ammo deliveries the story spreads and all ammo disappears almost immediately. I solved my problem by buying firearm for which ammo can only be bought at well-stocked gun shops.
 
Well I have my own success story to share while you guys duke it out amongst youselves

I had been searching for something to load up some 40gr V-max's for my REM700 bolt 223. (of course all the popular powders for this caliber are in the hands of online-gougers)

So I find a 8# jug on gunbroker , and place what I consider to be my max price, given the availability during current times... 2+ days before auction is supposed to end
The night it was gonna end, I went to log-on to GB, to see how many people will drive the price to ridiculous level, so that I can curse them from my monitor !!

Well it turns out GB-crashed that night, and nobody was able to place a higher bid,

I WON !!

The seller reluctantly contacts me the next day, saying how he will still honor our deal even though the "price would have went much higher"
Yea, I feel bad, He only made $60 on a jug instead of $100 like he wanted....
 
In regards to the toilet paper example 2 pages ago

Instead of useing all of it (like you could) you only use half of it. Someone goes in after you who has a stomach bug and gets the runs, they are going to bless you like you're the forth coming of christ. Now a second outcome, say you didnt leave that bit of tissue left over, and u end up with diarrhea you screwed urself over....., <snip>

That's Karma. Something I believe in.

AKA: Treat others as you would like to be treated.

Simple, really.
 
^^^ Life is really alot easier when you treat everyone else the same way that you wish to be treated. This has worked well for years so far in my corner of the world. As for Karma there is a lot to this you will find.:D
 
I am a huge football fan. I hate it when the other team hordes all the points. It is really unfair that they have more fans, which equals more money, which equals better players. They players get to the endzone first and won't share the ball :( Then they gouge us by making it harder for us to score

Doesn't everyone deserve a trophy?
 
I am a huge football fan. I hate it when the other team hordes all the points. It is really unfair that they have more fans, which equals more money, which equals better players. They players get to the endzone first and won't share the ball Then they gouge us by making it harder for us to score

Doesn't everyone deserve a trophy?

:D Perfect :D
 
I am a huge football fan. I hate it when the other team hordes all the points. It is really unfair that they have more fans, which equals more money, which equals better players. They players get to the endzone first and won't share the ball :( Then they gouge us by making it harder for us to score

Doesn't everyone deserve a trophy?

If it wasn't for TN giving the Oilers $200+ mill in free handouts, you wouldn't have the Titans.

See.. they did that because the area couldn't compete fairly on their own based on fan base, TV market, and projected ticket sales so TN subsidized so that they could be considered a competitive market.

Everyone deserves a NFL team... right?

:neener:
 
If it wasn't for TN giving the Oilers $200+ mill in free handouts, you wouldn't have the Titans.

See.. they did that because the area couldn't compete fairly on their own based on fan base, TV market, and projected ticket sales so TN subsidized so that they could be considered a competitive market.

Everyone deserves a NFL team... right?

:neener:

I am a memphian and hate the titans. Grew up in central MS and live and die by the saints. So na-na-a-boo-boo
 
This is just gettin' sad.

Looks and sounds like folk scrambling for meager amounts of bread, gruel or cooking oil in a third world country.

Situations like this make me despair the current American condition. One day maybe it will be bread and milk too. This isn't a market thing - this is a governmental thing.
 
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