[Buffalo Head]

"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?

[NonLinear]

Please explain exactly what you are doing, other than:

1. Buying more than you need.
How do you know what I need? I certainly don't need your opinion to make my determination of that quantity. Maybe I would like to have a little range time, or a lot of range time to keep my skill level where I would like it to be.

2. Preventing others from buying what they might actually need.
They are welcome to participate in the market themselves. Or maybe we should take from each according to his ability and give to each according to his need...

3. Creating an unnatural and unnecessary shortages.
I contend that our government is creating the shortages. If the manufacturers were confident that no move would be make to hobble them, then they would be building new plants, and expanding their businesses to capture the added demand.

4. Driving up the price of the commodities you are hoarding.
As has been previously pointed out, there is a distinct difference between stockpiling and hoarding. I am stockpiling now. I will be hoarding mine when it is no longer available.

Do you have any concept of the following?

a) The amount of ammunition issued to a combat soldier?
Non sequitur. Soldiers are individually issued amounts from an enormous stockpile. Do you have any concept of the following: a) How much ammunition the military stockpiles in order to be able to issue rounds to soldiers?

b) The number of rounds expended per soldier in the average firefight?
Non sequitur. Soldiers can assume to be resupplied during or after a firefight. I'm also not sure the concept of an average firefight has a lot of value to anyone involved.

c) The number of rounds expended in the average civilian gun fight?
If the average civilian wins, then the correct answer is "enough". Otherwise, too few, and not well placed.

d) How long a barricaded gunman survives in his bunker against heavier weaponry?

A shorter time than the one with superior weaponry. The more is to pick your fights carefully.