Stocking Up on Ammo???

[Redneck with a 40]

I've spent $420 on 3500 rounds of 40 S&W ammo. How'd I do it, RELOAD!

 

[Animal Mother]

I've got a pile of ammo, probably more than I'll ever shoot, and I had already stocked up on EBRs and semi-auto pistols before November, but I have still been bitten by the panic bug (for lack of a better term).

I've found myself tripling my current magazine stockpile and ordering even more ammo (thankfully I haven't paid the inflated prices out there). I've been cruising my Wal-Mart every few days for the past week or so waiting for ammo to get back in stock so that I can buy another couple thousand more rounds of .22 LR.

Given the current amount of uncertainty of the current economic and political environment leaves me with a heightened level of anxiety. Its a low level fear that I can only equate with the feeling I felt in the days immediately after 9/11. I am a rational and well rounded person, not given to tin-foil hattery, but I remember the last ban.

I was a young kid back then and was just becoming politically aware, but I remember the betrayal felt by millions of fellow gun owners when our politicians stabbed us in the back. I lived it through the words of men like Charlton Heston and articles from Gun & Ammo back when it was an actual enthusiast magazine instead of just glossy advertisements for manufacturers. I saw it in the eyes of my father and grandfather who saw a proud family tradition threatened, and in the eyes of the gun dealers at the local gunshows who saw their livelihood being snuffed out by DC bureaucrats.

I remember...and I have no intention of going through that again--so I stockpile, and I give to the NRA.

 

[22-rimfire]

I saw it in the eyes of my father and grandfather who saw a proud family tradition threatened, and in the eyes of the gun dealers at the local gunshows who saw their livelihood being snuffed out by DC bureaucrats.

I have a hard time equating what really happened with your words. In 1994, the AWB went into effect which placed a 10-round magazine limit and certain newly manufactured rifles were restricted based on a list of features. The end result was it was a stupid law that had absolutely no effect on guns or gun sales other than push up the price on so called pre-ban guns and magazines.

The Brady law was also passed with a mandatory waiting period for a background check prior to a gun sale and the NICs check implemented over a couple of years.

In the state I currently reside, there was already a waiting period and there had been one for years on handgun purchases through FFL dealers. The NICs check eliminated the waiting period as the purpose of the waiting period was to allow enough time for a background check. If you heard nothing, then you picked up your firearm.

As far as ammunition goes, I like to keep an adequate supply of what I use. Some would say I have more than I need, others say things like "never enough". I could us more magazines however.

 

[Animal Mother]

I have a hard time equating what really happened with your words.

I can only speak for what I remember. FWIW, the first centerfire gun I learned to shoot on was an M1 Carbine. I realized as a thirteen year old boy, that I had learned to shoot a gun with magazines that the government declared too dangerous to allow ordinary citizens to manufacture. Oh, we could still own old ones that were already in the system until they fell apart, but we could never expect any newly manufactured mags over their arbitrary limit of 10 rounds. I realized that the SKS-D that my Dad bought for me, was now considered an "Assault Weapon" and with the stroke a pen it could no longer be manufactured because the government no longer trusted its citizens with the responsibility of handling these weapons. The fact that my father trusted me more than my own government, who in my naivete I felt should trust me, bothered me.

At that time my father's S&W .22 rimfire pistol and 10/22 both took banned magazines, he let me use those guns like my own. I knew I needed to hold on to any pre-ban mags I had, to safeguard them so that we could enjoy shooting them as much as when he first bought them, before it became illegal to make a replacement for them- that bugged me a little bit.

I remember restrictions on pistol grips, muzzle brakes, folding stocks, and the like. No one ever expected that the ban would sunset, but I'd be surprised if everyone on this board would agree with your sentiments that it had "no effect on guns" if it had been extended back in '04.

I'm just concerned we're heading down that road again.

 

[Stratoghost]

Whenever I go to a store that sells ammo like Walmart, I always buy some ammo, even if it is just a brick of .22s.

 

[Jefferson Herb]

I bought .22 rimfire ammo during the Billary admin,a brick a payday.Now I just concentrate on Primers for my old guns that can use homade black but needs the primer,and wheelweights

 

[Mannlicher]

I find it interesting that every commodity in the market place is dropping in price with the exception of ammunition and guns.
Huge sales at every big box store, but NOT in the sporting goods section.

 

[exflatlander]

I tend to buy at least a box whenever I visit any of the local shops just so I am not one of those guys that wanders in and drools over the glass cases but never buys anything.

Good gun shops are scarce near me so I want the couple of good guys I know to stick around.

 

[twoclones]

I'd probably stock up if there were any ammo to buy. Today I bought all the .38 spl Wal-Mart had on the shelf [200 rds] because Sportsman's Warehouse didn't have any. Neither place has .357 mag! My local range doesn't have either of those calibers...

 

[moooose102]

i would like to have 1k rounds of all calibers, except 22lr, which 10 k seems approriate. but money wont let me do that. this level has nothing to do with any political interest, it is just where i would like to be. i suppose, if i didnt shoot, didnt do anything, didnt spend money on the kids, or...... and just stockpiled, it may happen, but what fun is that? besides, if there really is an ammunition limitation of some type of bill passed, we all will be hording what we have anyway. regardless of how much or little we have. unless you are wealthy enough to build, hide, and stock a munitions dump.

 

[orionengnr]

Lets see 80000 bullets divided by 40 years is 2,000 rounds a year or 166.6 bullets a month or 38 rounds a week. Are you sure you have enough ammo

Hmmm...38 rounds a week would be a bit light. I go through 100 rounds of rimfire and 50-100 rounds of centerfire pistol each week, at a minimum.
I plan on living at least another 40 years.

I sure wish I had 80,000 bullets, and the primers and powder to load them.