Posted on 03/22/2009 8:20:26 AM PDT by Atlas Sneezed
.... Everyone interviewed by The Post-Star for this story agreed ammunition of all calibers has gotten tougher to find, as gun owners stock up. Prices skyrocketed in recent years as metal prices went up, which caused many gun owners to stock up in anticipation of rising ammunition prices.
There are also concerns that some larger calibers, or those used by military-type weapons, could be banned, restricted or taxed more heavily.
One northern Warren County resident found out recently the government is paying attention to such ammunition sales.
West said a customer of his recently stocked up on .223-caliber rounds, a caliber often used in assault-style weapons. The customer bought 1,000 rounds a few months ago through a mail order company.
Shortly after the purchase, he received a visit from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, whose interest was apparently piqued by a large-scale purchase of that caliber.
"His wife was home. He was at church," West said. ....
(Excerpt) Read more at poststar.com ...
So how much did more you have back at your track? How much was your SAW guy carrying?
1000 ain’t nuthin. I go through a 110 rounds at a SASS match (not including shotgun shells). If I want to have plenty of ammo on hand for the year and for practice, I have to order a fairly large load.
Considering they sell in lots of 400,880,500 or 1000 I call BS on the DHS angle of the story.
They’d have to bring in the IRS agents to cover all the people that have purchased 1,000 round or more at a crack.
Use a credit card and you just reported whatever you bought to the government. Ammo is no different than anything else.
Used to be that worrying about this sort of thing was “tin-foil hat” conspiracy theory. Things are different now.
If you communicate by email, you have created a permanent federal government record of whatever you said, and to whom.
If you use a credit card or make a large withdrawal or write a large check on a bank account, you have just created a permanent federal record.
If you place phone call you have created a permanent record of when and to what number.
If you place an international phone call you have, in most cases created a record plus probably had the conversation sampled by government computers.
If you drive from one city to another with your cell phone, you may have created a record of the journey in government computers.
Of course, this is all “for our protection.”
That’s where I shop. The have a store/range here in Boise.
I wish we had one here.
I reserve the right to call shenanigans on this story.
Without names, there is no way of knowing if this is true, and I have heard so much propaganda lately that I’m suspicious.
I was in the sporting goods store buying targets a few weeks ago for the range, and the store had a pallet of cases, each had 1000 rounds. People bought them or they didn’t. No big deal.
Let me clarify my previous statement.
1000 rounds of .223 takes up approximately the same space as 3 bags of sugar.
They are much heavier than 15 pounds.
Drove all over Anchorage yesterday looking for 22WMR.
Found 3 boxes that were not $15+
Pleanty of ammo if you feel like paying 49.95 for 20 rounds of centerfire rifle ammo.
Things are getting a bit crazy....
1000 rounds of 223 are normally shipped in a box that is 8-1/2”x11”x5”. About the same as a large shoebox, or two reams of paper.
Weighs about 27 lbs.
Yeh, it total BS.
who the heck doesn’t buy online for less than 500-1000 rounds a pop?
anything less I’m going to my local gun shop.
Funny. I just got back from the store too.
They wanted $15 for 100 empty WMR .223 cases
I ordered some .223 about a month ago and it was supposed to arrive last week but when i checked on my orders status I found that it was now on back order. Is it a shortage or is DHS overwhelmed by the number of people that they've got to check up on? Also .223 may be a small caliber but the large case full of powder gives it quite a punch. I like 30.06 much better but they're expansive and hard to get now.
Bitter people are now the threat.
I was talking to someone at church today, and he got several hundred rounds of .223, .45, but couldn’t get 357. He called the manufacturer and they said they can’t get brass and his order may take as long as five months.
I carried a minimum of 430 rounds in Vietnam. Twenty 20 round magazines and a 30 rounder in the rifle.
Next think you know, they'll be investigating people who buy too much fertilizer.
Next think you know, they'll be investigating people who buy too much fertilizer.
I’m a newbie gun owner (Ruger P95) and haven’t been able to find 9mm here north of Houston for a couple of weeks now. If anyone has the website “number” of a good ammo website to buy from please let me know.
We had no track, only a group of 1114’s. We each carried our own basic load, and the turret gunner (either a SAW or a 249) had no less than three ammo boxes; plus there was pyro in the truck. We were scouts, we traveled light.
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