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Posted on 02/28/2009 12:35:46 PM PST by AJKauf
If you, like thousands of other Americans, have Googled to find out why we are in the middle of a nationwide ammunition shortage, you would have stumbled across this 2007 blog entry.
In it, I corrected a poorly researched Associated Press story by Estes Thompson that claimed the military’s consumption of ammunition was responsible for police ammunition shortages here in the United States. Few things could have been further from the truth, but it seems rather apparent, in retrospect, that the goal of that AP article wasn’t to find the truth as much as it was to (falsely) lay blame for the police ammunition shortages at the feet of George W. Bush.
The real fact of the matter is that the military got the bulk of its small arms (pistol, rifle, machine gun) ammunition from one contracted ammunition plant, and that plant wasn’t even running near capacity. ..
(Excerpt) Read more at pajamasmedia.com ...
Went to the gun store recently and they had just 120 rounds left of 7.62X54R. 8*(
Don’t start the WAR YET ... my AMMO’s on BACK ORDER!!
Uh, yeah...right...'training requirements'.
Sure...sure.
It's on hold.
Foot tapping.....
Components are still relatively easier to get. Not easy, just easier.
Hardly anything left out there. Everyone is stocking up.
Hey, I’m unemployed. I would happily help make ammo.
As far as I can tell by calling around GA, every Walmart in the state is almost totally out of handgun ammo and also rifle ammo for US military 5.56 ammo plus 7.62x39mm for Russian and other com/bloc military rifles. There are a lot more factors responsible for the current ammo shortage than just the cops and their new toys.
Don't blame me!
In the last 3 months I picked up atleast another 2000 rds. Not counting the crates I’ve already got in the basement.
7.62X54R?
Man, that is getting to the back of the closet.
Got three that fire 7.62x54R my own darn self.
It’s so much easier to find online. One place to check that seems to get large shipments is ammunitiontogo.com. Also they don’t have it on their site, let you order, then they are out as so many of the others do.
You can also call gun shops and liberal areas and they often have plenty. One of our friends that is in LE said that’s what a lot of people are doing. He teaches classes at the local range so the ammo shortages are a problem.
I’m not sure I know a liberal area with a gun shop, at least around here.
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2136635/posts
"Shortages of ammunition and firearms can be expected to continue for as long as it appears our overreaching federal government is a threat to our individual liberties, our economy continues to falter, and our police agencies keep militarizing."
Here's a picture of Sergei Mosin to keep you company until more ammo comes in.
BTW, Ammunition To Go has Russian surplus 7.62x54R in the original tins. How cool is that?
plink!
Ping. Article is worth clicking through to. It isn’t just fear of Dem gun bans driving purchases.
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