“But the hoarding is at a level that is absolutely ridiculous.”
Opinion on what this level is varies greatly.
Well, for me that opinion is not showing up at BassPro, with a cart, putting your arm on the shelf and dumping the contents of the shelf into your cart....Is that an exaggeration, YES.... a little bit.
I know most stores are rationing all this stuff and I know the ammo manufacturers are buying up most of it.
But there are also the types out there that think there is going to be war in the streets and they’ll be like, Benjamin Martin, running around.
Issue with that is....the very large majority of the people that think that, the ones with stickers all over their cars, are under the impression that a civil war is going to break out, but they’ll still live their lives as they are. They think they’ll be able to tell their buddy.....Uhhhh, yeah, I can be here tomorrow and Thursday from 5-8 and Saturday, right after my daughters softball game.
And if they think that BLM is going to start roving through neighborhoods, doing home invasions, etc etc etc, they’re believing the wrong person.
I’m not saying that they shouldn’t be prepared for something to happen to them. But having a stockpile of 10-15,000 primers and counting, of various sizes, is a bit ridiculous.
a: Opinion on what this level is varies greatly.
Exactly - what looks like "hoarding" to one man is just a few months supply to somebody else. I knew a guy years ago who shot competetively, and loaded 500 rounds a week. To save you doing the math, thats something on the order of 25,000+ primers per year. And I talked to a local gunsmith just last year, who was used to loading a similar quantity (both he and his wife shoot), but had to cut way back for obvious reasons. Bottom line, 20 bricks of primers wouldn't last some folks a full year - even without 'TEOTWAWKI'...