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1 posted on 04/26/2009 9:34:40 AM PDT by Red in Blue PA
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“Eight-five percent of gun sales are to first-time buyers.”

WOW!


2 posted on 04/26/2009 9:38:55 AM PDT by Red in Blue PA (If guns cause crime, then all of mine are defective.)
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Our family (dad, two brothers, and uncle and mom) went to a local gun show Saturday. There was ammo to be had by the pallet load if you wanted it. Stuff like 30 carbine was going for $24/50rds as an example and lots of it (made in Montana) - after we all went to Cabela’s and there were hundreds of boxes of .223 at anywhere from $18 to $22 per box. The gun cases had so many people around it that the staff had to use numbers to call customers. It was really packed. We’re out here in Washington. I read where most of the lack of ammo is in the East ....can’t fathom the difference between the West and the East ....


3 posted on 04/26/2009 9:41:04 AM PDT by SkyDancer ('Those who hammer their guns into plows will plow for those who do not..' ~ Thomas Jefferson)
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GM and Chrysler are missing a bet. Why close their plants? Do this instead:


5 posted on 04/26/2009 9:44:46 AM PDT by Nick Danger (I am Obama of Borg. Allegiance is futile. You will be capitulated.)
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Has anyone heard what the ammo/component makers are doing to aleviate the shortage?


13 posted on 04/26/2009 9:54:49 AM PDT by Lion Den Dan
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There have been over 7 million NICS firearms background checks done since Nov ‘08 (5 months), which represents an astronomical spike in gun sales.

If we’ve added over 7 million new guns to the streets, where’s the corresponding rise in crime?

I thought we’ve been told that more guns = more crime, blood in the streets, etc.


15 posted on 04/26/2009 9:57:55 AM PDT by umgud (I'm really happy I wasn't aborted)
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"I just spoke with all of the manufacturers and none of them can get ammo,"

Save your shells and don't fire 'til you see the whites of their eyes. Good advice then...good advice now!

16 posted on 04/26/2009 9:58:07 AM PDT by Don Corleone (Leave the gun..take the cannoli now reads "Oil the gun..eat the cannolis.")
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I was in the Mesquite, NV Wal-Mart yesterday and their shelves for the most part were bare. They had a sign up advising that they are aware of the shortage and that their buyers are doing the best they can. Someone, either staff or a customer, wrote underneath, “Don’t sell all of one type ammo to one customer when it comes in.”

Interesting times.


17 posted on 04/26/2009 9:58:24 AM PDT by Oatka ("A society of sheep must in time beget a government of wolves." –Bertrand de Jouvenel)
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Must be some back-handed Obama gun control. WalMart had only .40 and a few boxes of oddball stuff.


21 posted on 04/26/2009 10:01:07 AM PDT by ozzymandus
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A bunch of cracker heads are now doing to guns and ammo what happened in housing, in a couple of years the stuff will be dirt cheap.
30 posted on 04/26/2009 11:05:43 AM PDT by org.whodat (Auto unions bad: Machinists union good=Hypocrisy)
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Get a CZ52

1. Cheap Ammo
2. Reliable gun
3. Bullets penetrate kevlar easily.
4. Light trigger pull, easy carry for the ladies.


33 posted on 04/26/2009 11:13:48 AM PDT by struggle ((The struggle continues))
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Just a thought here. Are there any statistics on how much ammo the Government is currently stock piling?

/tinfoil hat off ;-)

35 posted on 04/26/2009 11:17:19 AM PDT by Desron13 (If you constantly vote between the lesser of two evils then evil is your ultimate destination.)
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