Ammo hard to find as gun owners stock up

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[FromLori]

shops across the country are reporting a run on ammunition, a phenomenon apparently driven by fear that the Obama administration will increase taxes on bullets or enact new gun-control measures.

Ron Cardwell fires his 9 mm semiautomatic at a paper target at a range in Aurora, Colorado. 1 of 3

"In the last two months it's gotten very, very difficult to find ammunition," says Richard Taylor, manager of The Firing Line, a gun shop and shooting range in the Denver, Colorado, suburbs.

"There are a lot of rumors floating around that the present government would like to increase taxes on ammunition. I think [there is] just a lot of panicked buying going on."

While campaigning for the White House, Obama supported re-enacting the now-expired ban on assault weapons. But there is no indication that the administration will take up that measure -- or any other gun-control initiative --anytime soon.

Nonetheless, some gun owners aren't taking any chances.

[KeyLargo]

National Rifle Association Convention Faces Liquor License Problem

Tuesday, May 05, 2009

PHOENIX — There are laws on the books that prevent the mixing of booze and guns in public places where alcohol is served.

The people running the Phoenix Convention Center want to temporarily suspend part of the center’s liquor license that bans carrying weapons where booze is served.

Convention officials say gun owners attending next week’s National Rifle Association convention would not be able to bring weapons into the convention center complex.

Arizona Department of Liquor Licenses and Control spokeswoman Lee Hill calls it an unusual request to suspend a liquor license and even more unusual to do it for a weapons event.

The convention catering company general manager Mark Wallace said alcohol will only be served in three areas where receptions are held. Wallace said the NRA also plans to operate a gun-check area.

The NRA was not available for comment Monday

[ctdonath2]

Local Wal-Mart now has a 2-box limit.
Previous time in I was told to be in before 8AM as people would buy out entire calibers.

[chuckles]

I have posted on another thread my reasoning for gold not being allowed to reach these heights and the proletariat won't be allowed to own it. In 1933, FDR issued an executive order banning American citizens from “hording” gold. Then he cranked the printing presses up to warp speed. In thought crime and newspeak, you will be a bad person hoarding gold and therefore a criminal. Gold may be allowed to double, but I doubt it will be allowed to be privately owned passed that. For the children, don't you know.

Google FDR and gold and you can get the wording of the executive order. Gold hoarders were "bad" people, not people trying to save their savings.

Fascism makes bad people from regular folks and makes internationalism the goal. That way you are hurting the whole world population if you have gold. The same if you breathe out carbon dioxide or drive an SUV, ect.

I've had the discussion before about the 2nd Amendment. IMHO, the "right" of gold possession will be easier to get rid of than guns, because it isn't specifically mentioned in the Constitution. I also think it would be difficult to "make change" for an ounce of gold if it's worth $10,000. Even if a loaf of bread was $1000.

[piytar]

Oddly, you started well with “When business leaders become too immoral, the market ceases to be properly functional. We can't have fiscal conservatism without moral conservatism. The leadership of men is required to support moral conservatism, and there aren't many men in leadership.” Part of my point also was that the free market wasn’t functioning. Then you drifted into ad hominem and straw-man garbage:

“sorry if you don't like to see commentary from a man and are afraid of conservative American peasant hordes attacking”

Um, that's barely even coherent. Or rather not at all. Don't like to see commentary from “a man”? LOL. I also like your “free traitors” slander in one of the posts you linked.

Weird, just plain weird.

[El Gato]

Nonetheless, some gun owners aren't taking any chances

Darn Right!

[El Gato]

Just seems to me that in a capitalist system, when there is a shortage of something, somebody makes more or finds it somewhere to meet demand. Can't we get ammo from the Philippines or Turkey or somewhere on the planet?

The factories in the US are running 24/7. What more do you want? The owners of those factories are probably, and understandably, reluctant to buy more machines and floor space, for a couple of reasons. First, the high demand probably won't last all that long (they could be wrong about that of course). Second, The Messiah might make that investment worthless overnight, say by banning all ammo, that isn't micro-stamped on both the bullet and the case with matching numbers no doubt. Plus requiring "Green" (that is lead less) bullets and primers. (Police exempted of course).

As far as imports go, I haven't heard much about them, but imports are very subject to "regulation" by the executive branch alone, and must be approved well in advance.

[Quiller]

No, he doesn't want to go there....

Sure. Common sense, respect for the Constitution, and commitment to what's right for America will hold him back. < /sarc>

Anybody with an ounce of concern for their 2nd Amendment rights needs to be a member of the NRA. At least they've shown some muscle that congressthings respect.