And if interested here's the ink to the site: http://directorblue.blogspot.com/
Posted on 02/17/2013 1:57:31 PM PST by kas7351
I went to a local gun show yesterday and was just amazed. To begin with the line was extremely long, everyone that I spoke to had the same thought on their mind and that was to spend money at the show....
What amazed me was the price of ammo, I had to pay twice as much for ammo this time then I did back in November. SO here is my thought to the title of this post.
We all have read about the billions of rounds of ammo that the gov't has been buying over the past months. What a better way to limit our ability (or control our guns) than to take away the ammo???? I think this is how they are tipping the scales to control us..... WITHOUT us realizing they are doing it....
I did get mad yesterday when I paid, I asked the clerk if they are paying more for the ammo then before. He smiled and smartly said oh yes sir we are! I have heard from dealers that the costs have gone up a cpl of percent but not 100%! Since the supply is down, the dealers are raping us.... Guess I can't complain too much as that is CAPITALISM at its best!
“Way to advertise to everyone you have highly desirable weapons in one’s home.”
Even in the case of a bumper sticker, someone would have to go to some lengths to get the home address. Then, they have to have the “intestinal fortitude” to go inside knowing there are highly lethal items, and likely highly lethal people there.
Another very funny bumper sticker I’ve seen (in the Philippines of all places) was a “Baby On Board” yellow placard with the outline of an M-4 style AR below the text. That one was on quite a few vehicles. ;-)
It's call the free market. The price is a signal, it signals the buyer to moderate their demand and it signals the manufacturers to expand their production. What usually happens is that the demand falls off and the production ramps up, so the price will fall, maybe even lower than the starting point. It happens with gasoline all the time. It all evens out. Of course, if there is a disrupting event...
It's call the free market. The price is a signal, it signals the buyer to moderate their demand and it signals the manufacturers to expand their production. What usually happens is that the demand falls off and the production ramps up, so the price will fall, maybe even lower than the starting point. It happens with gasoline all the time. It all evens out. Of course, if there is a disrupting event...
Thanks for that graphic. That’s quite a collection!
Reloading supplies (primers, etc.) are pretty much cleaned out. IMO, it’ll be at least another nine months, before much in the way of supplies are seen in stock.
And if interested here's the ink to the site: http://directorblue.blogspot.com/
And if interested here's the link to the site: http://directorblue.blogspot.com/
Thank you for the honest assessment of the situation from your opportunity to listen. I’ll add to it.
Saw a link to an Ebay page a few weeks ago while running a search for AR bolt carrier groups out of curiosity. They were there—gobs of ‘em. Complete groups were going for about $500 dollars (”buy it now” prices). Didn’t check to see what the auctioned ones were going for (likely that much or higher).
So yes—scalpers. Hordes of ‘em. Wise folks will wait ‘till later and buy the stuff cheap.
Saw it coming a year or so ago..
I keep missing the e-mail alert from BCM saying their bolt carrier groups are available. By the time I get to the computer a couple of minutes later, they are sold out again.
Their bcgs are fetching around $500 on gunbroker right now.
estimating VERY conservativly:
100,000,000 owners of civilian arms.
multiply by $1000 value.
The federal government does not have enough money.
100,000,000,000?
that is assuming only a 1000 value per person.
what if the actual number is higher in owners or value?
what if it is 1 billion in buyback?
whose pet project will be sacrificed to fund this stupidity?
estimating VERY conservativly:
100,000,000 owners of civilian arms.
multiply by $1000 value.
The federal government does not have enough money.
100,000,000,000?
that is assuming only a 1000 value per person.
what if the actual number is higher in owners or value?
what if it is 1 billion in buyback?
whose pet project will be sacrificed to fund this stupidity?
Yeah; we settled on 2 calibers: .45 ACP & .308, plus 22lr for the varmints. If I ever burn through my stockpile, it’ll have been a hell of a skirmish. Hope I live through it.
Mine wife received her father’s reload equipment but we had a terrible wreck going through the Palisades on the way back from Idaho, it is all at the bottom of the lake now. Anyone who would like to recover it are welcome, just please return the AR.
Nope!
For anyone that didn't have their head up in their nether regions, 15-years ago was the time!
Unlimited supply....Unlimited commie threat...Rock-bottom prices...
Dang! This PDS (Persistent Gloating Syndrome) is a bitch to control...{:-)
Its called “Profiteering”
“Saw it coming a year or so ago..”
Wish I’d bought stock in S&W, Ruger, Remington, etc. back in 2008 when Duh Won was nominated — I’d be rich. Heck, S&W went up 7x in that time. Nuts.
No apologies necessary! Thanks for all that.
A depletion in the supply side is a depletion in the supply side....If the manufacturers were deliberately holding back, then your artificial influence argument makes sense, but it appears that Capitalism is indeed working. Sometimes it sucks but it is the preferred model.
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