lysanderxiii
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Too much ammo is when your children go hungry and your electric bill is unpaid, but you're still buying it.
Anything less is a personal preference.
Anything less is a personal preference.
NoHere's a question for all of you ammo economists. Does your homeowners insurance cover your 3K worth of ammo.
I have a separate safe for my ammo.Or does your homeowners insurance policy get canceled for all of your loses when it's determined that some of your ammo cooked off in a fire.
I live in the country, so no local codesThe fire investigator starts snooping around and finds 10K rounds of ammo and the local fire code says that only 1K is a legal amount of ammo for a residence.
In the event of total loss house fire I expect to have to involve a lawyer anyway, and like previously stated my ammo is in a fire safe, that's not in my house.Or, like ins. companies are prone to do, they just don't pay your claim and wait for you to sue them so they can bring up the fact that the intensity of the fire was because of your ammo hoarding and the hazard to the firefighters delayed them from fighting the fire
I have a separate safe for my ammo.
If the crap ever hits the fan, I'm staying put, as I live 30 miles from the nearest city, out in the woods. My ammo stash will defend the homestead for quite a awhile.
I have a separate safe for my ammo.
That's a bomb waiting to happen
Here's a thought. If I had to replace the 10K I have wrapped up in firearms I have insurance that would replace those. I know because I've talked at length with my ins. agent about it. I have a rider for it.
Here's a question for all of you ammo economists. Does your homeowners insurance cover your 3K worth of ammo. Or does your homeowners insurance policy get canceled for all of your loses when it's determined that some of your ammo cooked off in a fire. The fire investigator starts snooping around and finds 10K rounds of ammo and the local fire code says that only 1K is a legal amount of ammo for a residence. Or, like ins. companies are prone to do, they just don't pay your claim and wait for you to sue them so they can bring up the fact that the intensity of the fire was because of your ammo hoarding and the hazard to the firefighters delayed them from fighting the fire.
If you don't think ins. companies wouldn't do that then you've never filed a claim.
So you finally admitted it. You're a survivalist. You fell into one of my 3 categories after all of that rebuttal.
Why didn't you just come out and say it to start with?
Someone who lives out in the country is now a survivalist? Where in the world do you come up with this crap!?
If the crap ever hits the fan, I'm staying put, as I live 30 miles from the nearest city, out in the woods. My ammo stash will defend the homestead for quite a awhile.
I've thought it of that, but the general consensus of THR members is that it's not big issue.
Maybe it was this armageddon scenario. What do you call this "defend the homestead in the woods" mindset?
I call it being prepared. Have you not seen the riots in cities recently. Eventually violence can/will spill out into rural areas also.
I think that is a popular misconception. People who live in cities will stay there because that's all they know, even with riots going on. People who live in cities put up with a lot, even riots. To prove that you don't ever see any mass migration of people into the country during riots. People who live in cities do the same thing you would do, they just stay put in the area that they know best and hunker down. Most of them believe the gov't will take care of them. They don't want to leave their friends, family and big screen.
Prepper, survivalist, call it what you want. The terms are synonymous.
You take exception to my statement that people who stockpile ammo fall into one of three categories but it seems just about everyone here falls into one of those categories.
Maybe you just don't like labels. The biggest reason for the ammo panic was hoarders and preppers thinking that ammo supplies were going to dry up. They were right because they made it happen.
Well LOOKY here, we have a psychic! He knows exactly what people will do in a riot scenario!
He's probably more right than wrong where riots or other civil unrest exist on a limited scope, but there is still ROL. People avoid the hot zone, but the cities are not abandoned. But we're just talking about a few blocks of danger zone, usually pretty well contained by LE or even the guard.
In a more extreme situation, things will change. If the power and running water cease and there is no supply of food and water, and no/very limited civil authority or help, staying becomes untenable in short order, and cities will see a mass exodus. People may not know where they're going, but they know they can't stay because basic needs are not being met without infrastructure.
You know as well as I do that no one can predict anything in a situation like that. Riot isn't just being used to describe something like ferguson. Riot is also used to describe a collapse of services that leads to the SHTF scenario. Last I checked though SHTF discussion wasn't a topic allowed here so I was gently sidestepping it and using the term riot.
Well LOOKY here, we have a psychic! He knows exactly what people will do in a riot scenario!
Going to the range and burning powder doesn't have a damn thing to do with being pro 2A. All it tells me is you don't want to pay banic prices for ammo, a *I beat the market* sort of mentality.
If you have 1000 rounds of centerfire rifle ammo you fall into the comp shooter, survivalist, or jihadist category. I don't know anyone who falls in any of those categories.
No, the bottom line is if you have more than you can carry at a time by yourself reasonable distance you have an excess of ammo.
The bottom line is people should not be hoarding ammo. In the future we will have firearm permits which will be required for all ammo purchases logic being that people lacking them should not buy own ammo in the first place. It will be great just like buying Sudafed products at local drug store. Nothing to worry about.
The fire investigator starts snooping around and finds 10K rounds of ammo and the local fire code says that only 1K is a legal amount of ammo for a residence.