Posted on 05/20/2009 5:00:59 PM PDT by smokingfrog
A great book, one of the best. I bought three copies, one I gave as a present, one for myself and one as a loaner.
Of course, I loaned my copy too.
Are we positive that the ammunition is going to “Our” side???
Are assumptions being made based?
Is it possible that this never before seen demand on ammunition is going to the “civilian security force” or something similar?
Honestly, I know a lot of hunters and gun enthusiasts. None of them are buying ammunition in the quantities speculated about.
I think this needs to be looked at a little closer. Maybe its nothing, but maybe there is something there.
It looks just like the gun at #20, but with brown and gold vertical stripes on the grip.
“Are assumptions being made based?”
blah...
should have been “Are assumptions being made?”
“Dont know if its the same there, but here in Albuquerque the shelves are bare. Almost no ammo anywhere. Scary stuff. Cant even get powder for reloading shotgun shells.
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Our local Walmart has shelves loaded with regular hunting shot gun shells.
Their locked case for what would be classified as large game ammo and home/shelf protection ammo has a few more stockings since the November election.
They have a posting on the glass doors which looks like it is from their home office stating: “A limit of 6 boxes of shells per customer per day!”.
Please explain exactly what you are doing, other than:
1. Buying more than you need.
2. Preventing others from buying what they might actually need.
3. Creating an unnatural and unnecessary shortages.
4. Driving up the price of the commodities you are hoarding.
Do you have any concept of the following?
a) The amount of ammunition issued to a combat soldier?
b) The number of rounds expended per soldier in the average firefight?
c) The number of rounds expended in the average civilian gun fight?
d) How long a barricaded gunman survives in his bunker against heavier weaponry?
Here in NJ, can’t find any 9mm, .38, .357, .45, .22lr, 12g slugs/00 buck, 5.56, 7.62 anything, etc. When visiting family a few months ago in PA, a local store had about 40 cases of Winchester .223 non-milspec. I went back there three weeks ago and all that was left was 1 box of Winchester 5.56.
Ditto. I have a CZ P-01 and it’s the bees knees.
right beside me brother..Im not usually far from sufficient stockpiles.
right beside me brother..Im not usually far from sufficient stockpiles.
The Trijicon scope is the tool there; That tritium in the sight keeps a bright red chevron right over the target even when light is down to the color of twilight in the bowels of a hippopotamus.
Don't forget, lasers work both ways! ; )
There was a book out in our local library a few years ago about The Marquis of Lafayette. It was a story about his life, basically. There was a passage in there where he supposedly said, paraphrase, “That there is a horse who every day was whipped by his cruel master. Finally, the horse throws the master off his back to the ground, and won’t let him back on.” Then he said: “THE AMERICAN PEOPLE ARE THAT HORSE!”.
I once thought when reading that, that definitely applied to the Afghan and Iraqi people at time. But could it apply to us again someday? Hopefully, if they’ve been beaten down enough, some day the American people will throw that master down again!
see my #194
“I’m certainly doing my part.”
Please explain exactly what you are doing, other than:
1. Buying more than you need.
2. Preventing others from buying what they might actually need.
3. Creating an unnatural and unnecessary shortages.
4. Driving up the price of the commodities you are hoarding.
Do you have any concept of the following?
a) The amount of ammunition issued to a combat soldier?
b) The number of rounds expended per soldier in the average firefight?
c) The number of rounds expended in the average civilian gun fight?
d) How long a barricaded gunman survives in his bunker against heavier weaponry?
Shhhhhh... let’s not project now, it might give him ideas! ;^O
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