Apparently CNN has resorted to reporting on news that isn’t new. Memo to CNN: We all knew about this back in January!
7.62x39 just came in! Look to your sources. .223/5.56 has been available for a few weeks. Good until the demonrats do an AWB with their new supermajority.
With the radicals we have running the White House and Congress, it's only a matter of time.
This whole thing has me confused. Brother was looking for ammo in San Antonio - wanted to go plinking. Local shops were out or expensive. Then went online, and Cabela’s had 9mm at normal prices. Gee, think the press could check out the website of one of the biggest sporting goods stores in the world?
Im now convinced that this is mostly hype to create fear of those “gun nuts.”
Just seems to me that in a capitalist system, when there is a shortage of something, somebody makes more or finds it somewhere to meet demand. Can't we get ammo from the Philippines or Turkey or somewhere on the planet? The Somali pirates seem to have enough. Back in the day, we used to get it from China or Yugoslavia before the bent one messed that up. I know Obama could get it from his revolutionary buddies in Kenya that are shooting Christians. When the cops can't get ammo and the Mexican drug lords can, we have a problem. How about Hugo Chavez or the FARC? Obama know them pretty good.
Individuals who are buying much larger quantities than they can use are the problem. ...for example, purchasers of primers, who buy from tens of thousands to 700 cases. Some are doing that for the purpose of reselling at higher prices (more bubble speculators), and some, with fantasies about equipping small (very small) armies of untrained nitwits. Others yet, believe it or not, having caught on to the shortage, are buying monstrous quantities for the sole purpose of depriving Second Amendment supporters.
But they’ll exhaust their wads of money for such weirdness soon enough. Ammo and components will be available again and probably quite a bit cheaper, as the idiots are laid off from their jobs and begin to starve.
I went to the Bill Goodman gun show in Nashville this past weekend. The only .380 ammunition I saw was three small boxes of premium hollow points. The price for a small box of 20 .380 cartridges was $51.95.
Speculating on the ammo availability, there are two-three forces coming to a juncture —
1) Part of O’s legislation dream list will outlaw reloaded ammo (require manufacturer’s markings on loadings).
2) Another part of the dream list puts ammo beyond regular owners’ reach by taxing it exorbitantly.
If the ammo tax legislation is to apply to ammo manufactured after a specific date, then manufacturers and distributors place themselves in position to divert a healthy chunk of their stock to inventory to wait on the tax increase. Then pre-tax manufactured ammo would be sold next to taxed ammo, but at the same price. The resulting windfall goes to producers’ pockets (and, of course, to lobbyists and representatives’ campaign funds).
It ain’t hype. Ammo can be had but you pay double what it was last year.
LLS
Problem is, I don't think that this stuff is making it into the country right now.
I've been hearing that our communist overlords are making it extremely difficult for importers to bring in the bulk Russian ammo.
Yeah, I know that I'm just working with rumors here, but does anyone have any information on this? Has anyone ordered the sealed spam cans of ammo (from Cabelas or anywhere) and actually had them arrive?
A few days later another kid behind the counter let it slip to me that some folks get calls from Wal-Mart employees when a shipment arrives, so they can come right then and snatch it all up.
I'm seriously thinking of talking with the store manager and advising him about this and chewing on him for allowing it. Put a limit on it all and let the average working guy have a shot at buying 2-3 boxes. Greed. It's always present.
Yep. And the constant press only serves to extend and sharpen the run. It does serve one useful purpose, though. It counteracts the carefully-constructed image of gun owners being a tiny minority of radical right-wing cranks.
It does amaze me how otherwise intelligent people can blithely declare, "He's said he's not going to do it right away, so that should be enough reassurance for you." The market says otherwise. Perhaps the people making that sort of statement ought to examine it a little more closely.
National Rifle Association Convention Faces Liquor License Problem
Tuesday, May 05, 2009
PHOENIX — There are laws on the books that prevent the mixing of booze and guns in public places where alcohol is served.
The people running the Phoenix Convention Center want to temporarily suspend part of the center’s liquor license that bans carrying weapons where booze is served.
Convention officials say gun owners attending next week’s National Rifle Association convention would not be able to bring weapons into the convention center complex.
Arizona Department of Liquor Licenses and Control spokeswoman Lee Hill calls it an unusual request to suspend a liquor license and even more unusual to do it for a weapons event.
The convention catering company general manager Mark Wallace said alcohol will only be served in three areas where receptions are held. Wallace said the NRA also plans to operate a gun-check area.
The NRA was not available for comment Monday
Darn Right!