Don't put it off.
BTW, Today would be a great day to make that donation.
Thank you very much!!
Posted on 01/12/2013 1:41:11 PM PST by Red in Blue PA
According to the gun review site, "Haus of Guns," backorders for the Magpul AR-15 30-round magazine ("PMAG") have surpassed one million.
In a Facebook post dated today, January 9, Haus of Guns writes the following:
"Had breakfast with a buddy who has reasonably close ties to the Magpul family. Word is the great PMAG panic backorder of 2012/13 has topped 1 million at Magpul HQ."
Magpul is a designer and manufacturer of firearms accessories. The PMAG is one of their most popular products. It is a 30-round magazine designed for the AR-15 semi-automatic rifle.
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I’m not gloating and I feel sorrowful that many are looking at bare shelves and extremely high prices for guns and ammo elsewhere, in Alaska you do not need any license to conceal carry and they do have restriction such as around schools and courthouses. I trip over full coolers full of ammo, primers powder and mags in my man cave.
By and large almost every rural person has at least a shotgun and a heavy caliber, and I mean heavy calibers. Interestingly the AR has not a big following up here because of its miniscule size, instead people do heavily rely upon ultra magnum calibers such as Weatherby, stuff more usually found in Africa, and a loyal following of Garands and the M1A.
To me even the .308 is just a moderate cartridge here in Alaska. Most people put more faith in the .338wincher magnum than any other cartridge, one loon even shot the Alaska pipeline with that round, punctured it and shut it down for several days.
Obama has already pre-emptively stricken Alaska with a shot across our bows, he has suspended a decades long practice of giving Canada highway repairs funding for the Alaska Highway on the most dangerous roughest stretch just before the Alaska border.
Just a heads up for anyone thinking about driving here, what was a terrible road may hardly even be a road soon. Obama hates Alaska because of Sarah Palin, a simple woman that had America motivated just enough to be a real threat to his agenda.
And still is.
I bet it’s the only good thing he’s done for the economy!
The “Assault Spork” Ban is on-the-way.
I pretty much do the same, but timing is the issue. I was able to get some mags at the precise moment I called on a previous order of mine. The supplier said the distributors are doling them out piecemeal to their preferred retailers, I was able to catch 4 20-rd mags for my ARs (that sadly I lost yesterday in a boating accident - boat went down , too). Darnit!!
For the helluvit, I checked the shotgun biz. It too is devastated. Even the reloading biz it being hit hard!!
Very soon I may invest in the 3D printer that is large enough to print magazines, I have no aspiration to print an AR lower, being a machinist I would just get a chunk of T6 aluminum and mill one out.
On the other hand I do have a 60 year old fully functioning concrete block press stamping machine and tons of old box dies of extremely strong alloy steel, I can easily make stamping dies to cut pre shaped magazines panels that can then be folded on a jig and spot welded. Same with floorplates, the followers are cast from a polyurethane resin, springs are exceptionally easy to procure.
I’m not sure it will. They are pretty dense. They have one thing on their mind and nothing will sway them.
Next to the AR pattern rifles, the most common centerfire rifles around are .30-30 lever-actions. I am surprised that there was .308 on the shelf; that's probably third in line behind .223 and 7.62x39 in terms of stockpiling.
Oh please spare us the, “look how smart i am” game. Of course while you are technically correct, colloquially, people use “rounds”, “bullets”, and “cartridges” interchangably when referring to fixed ammunition.
I’ve heard numerous people say they got a good deal on a few boxes of bullets they had been looking for. The context of the conversation is a hint as to when they are not speaking of reloading components.
And ive never heard anyone say they need to stop and buy a box of cartridges (unless they are wearing a handlebar mustache, holding a Winchester 1873, and are on their way to a cowboy action shooting event)
Perhaps I should write “ammo” so I wouldn't upset anyone, as in, “I need to stop and buy a box of ammo.” Maybe that would sound “cool”.
Thanks for posting, I appreciate it.
Rumor has it your ex-wife took it all.
Obama wants civil war, he wants enraged entitlement gun grabbers, LGBT, Muslims, well the list is extensive merging into a super OWS mob that will go on search and destroy missions against preppers and gun owners.
Fortunately for Alaska we don’t have any neighboring states of a strong liberal percentage.
We do have a very liberal Anchorage though they usually leave for Hawaii, AZ and Florida during the winter.
They have a saying up here, “There is Anchorage and then you have Alaska” And where I live in the Valley its all white red neck trash.
Can you trust ammo from walmart?
Just saw a vid that says special factories produce for walmart to cut costs.
The local Sportsman's Warehouse here in Albuquerque is calling Thursdays "Black Friday Thursdays" because people are lining up at 3:00 AM and the doors don't open until 9:00. Thursday is when they get the weekly shipment of everything.
Had a friend there this last Thursday afternoon, he said shelves were bare. He talked to a salesman, who told him about the people lining up. The salesman also told him that they got in 50 cases of 1,000 rounds each of Federal .223. All 50 were gone as soon as they could wheel them onto the floor ($406, with taxes).
"....a certain multi-bullet magazine." should be, "....a certain multi-cartridge magazine."
As an aside, your comment "....generally hollow point bullets means that are ready to shoot people...." infers an unsubstantiated and unwarranted guess as to why a person might own any particular type of bullets or ammunition loaded with a particular type of bullet. Furthermore, hollow point bullets are inanimate little things that do absolutely nothing by themselves without the assistance of a shellcase, primer and propellant powder, a launching device and a controller.
"“look how smart i (sic) am”
You make the relative comparison quite easy.
"....while you are technically correct....", But of course. Why would you adopt lower standards for yourself?
"....colloquially, people use “rounds”, “bullets”, and “cartridges” interchangably (sic) when referring to fixed ammunition." No, educated and knowledgeable people do not confuse nouns. Is it your goal to dumb down folks on this forum to your level?
This forum has a free spelling checker. It is suggested that you use it.
Bammy wants his own civil war. Lincoln and all that...
And those are just the ones I ordered! Bet they put me on a terrorist watch-list now!!!
Every round of ammo I've bought from Walmart (12 gauge, .40 S&W, .30-30, .22lr) has fired, save 3 rounds of the .22lr. Before the madness, I used to buy all my ammo there, except for my .30-06 (needed M2 Ball, not hunting), and 7.62x54r (which they don't carry at my store). The 3 rounds that didn't fire, could very well have been due to heavy use of the rifle that day. I was at an Appleseed event, using my Ruger 10/22, and Federal .22LR that I bought from Walmart. The three rounds were all fail-to-fire late in the afternoon, after almost consuming the better part of that 550 round box. They didn't all come at the same time, but out of nearly 700 rounds of Walmart .22lr through that gun by now, only those three ever failed to fire.
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