Stocking up on Components?

[lebyrn2]

Due to the recent political climate and possibility of increased gun control, do we think the next thing liberals will go for is ammunition?

I'm not talking about serial stamping each munition but making it more difficult to get either ammunition or the components.

Since I reload my own ammunition, stocking up on factory ammunition isn't a high priority. However if I wanted to begin stocking up on components, which would make more sense? Primers, powder or bullets? Stated another way, which would be easier for the leftist to tax or make more difficult to get?

 

[Schwing]

There is a lot of debate on this and, frankly, I don't think anyone can predict what tactic they will take next.

Personally, I think lead is the most likely target. This would be catastrophic for bullets and primers.

I cast my own bullets so I keep several hundred pounds in storage along with around (I am almost ashamed to say) about 50k primers. Powder is a given to stock up on IMHO since the last 8 years have proven that it can disappear fast.

 

[otisrush]

I don't think of it as which component is likely to get most scarce. I look at it as "What component would I run out of first? And were that to happen, would I have enough to hold me for <pick a timeframe you're comfortable with>?".

I'm still learning what that timeframe needs to be for me. Right now I'm feeling pretty good. As long as a drought wasn't too long I'd be fine. So I want to be prepared - but not go off the deep end.

 

[ColoradoShooter77]

Powder seems to be the most volatile component, when it disappears, its gone for years.

I've stocked up on everything in the last 6 months, I'm good to go.

 

[KansasSasquatch]

Powder is what I'd be most concerned with. On top of being the most time consuming to produce, a lot of it is also subject to possible import regulations and/or restrictions. Domestic powder production is already subject to EPA regulations and what's to say that those regulations won't become more strict in the future. Sure lead bullet production is also subject to EPA regs, but there are alternatives to lead core bullets. How many Commie countries used steel cores for decades? Using steel cores limits what would be considered an acceptable target, but they'd be okay for paper punching. For hunting bullets there's plenty of copper or brass only projectiles already available. Those projectiles are more expensive but they are readily available. I can't imagine brass cartridges being hard to come by but even if things get that bad, again, there's always steel. Primers, still commonly use lead but non-toxic primers are becoming more common.

So powder is what I would be most concerned about. If I had the disposable income for it, I'd be ordering 15-20years worth of powder right now. And I'd probably do the same every 5-10 years until I had a lifetime supply. With as little as I've been able to shoot the during the past year, if the trend continues, I have enough powder to get me through 6-8 years. Two years tops if I get back to shooting like I used to.

 

[VINTAGE-SLOTCARS]

I've been stocking up on reloading supplies for several years. I have several universal powders that can be used in different calibers. I have plenty of primers in all sizes. I won't forget when primers were selling for $75 a box. I try and save a little every month for supplies. I am well stocked up on supplies and now need to catch up on my bullet casting. I shoot about 8 different lead bullets and try to keep at least one 50 cal can full of each one. I think I might be a hoarder !

 

[vongh]

This thread is starting to bring out the natural hoarder in me. I like to keep lots of supplies on hand as well.

 

[Shootshellz]

One man's 'hoarding' is another man's 'stocking up'. Depends upon whose ox is being gored.

 

[Walkalong]

For starters, it's the anti's we need to worry about. That is who we are fighting against in the gun control arena. (We are not going to argue about which party seems to have the most of them these days.)

Second, if you like to have plenty of stock on hand, knock yourself out and buy all you can afford. It's a free country.

Third, we are not going to do the stocking up/horders quarrel again.

Thoughts:

You can't make primers easily. You can't make smokeless powder at all. You can pour lead bullets in a pinch. There are limits to the amount of powder and primers one can store in a residential building, as well as guidelines for how they are stored.

I am not panicking, I am not even worried about it, and 99% of us cannot buy a lifetime supply, so get on the phones, send emails, write letters, join the NRA, contribute to pro gun candidates,................. or the same thing we should have been doing all along. Yes, I know, many of y'all are.

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