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More stockpiling ammunition: Fear of potential Obama laws causing mass sales
missouliandotcom ^ | May 20, 2009 | By PERRY BACKUS Ravalli Republic

Posted on 05/20/2009 5:00:59 PM PDT by smokingfrog

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To: blam

It sounded like a money making deal....but more likely both.


41 posted on 05/20/2009 5:50:55 PM PDT by Red in Blue PA (If guns cause crime, then all of mine are defective.)
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To: M Kehoe
"The only variable is the will to utilize the equation."

Plug and chug?

Cranking the formulas?

42 posted on 05/20/2009 5:51:49 PM PDT by Paladin2 (Big Ears + Big Spending --> BigEarMarx, the man behind TOTUS)
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To: Wonder Warthog

“....and that the tipping point is VERY, VERY close.”

I honestly don’t think we will ever have to fire a single shot. This ‘teenage mentality’ administration is imploding as we speak. Obama is the leading man in this comedy of errors. Get the popcorn out ‘cause they’re going down fast.


43 posted on 05/20/2009 5:52:48 PM PDT by panaxanax (Reward paid for any Harvard Yearbook with pictures of 0bama in it.)
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To: smokingfrog

A real sign....the upper middle class to genuinely rich Jews (think guys like Chuckie Schumer) in Great Neck are hitting the gun shops like mad since January. Watching them look at the toys under the glass you’d think they were school girls looking at spiders.


44 posted on 05/20/2009 5:53:37 PM PDT by wtc911 ("How you gonna get back down that hill?")
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To: Wonder Warthog
Yup. I hope the Democrats are reading this VERY clear signal from the American people that they will be pushed only so far, and no farther, and that the tipping point is VERY, VERY close.

They are too arrogant to understand the signal, no matter how clear it is. As much as they even notice, they attribute it to a "small group" of right wing nut cases. That small group has bought enough firearms to outfit the largest armies in the world, just in the past 7 months or so. Just the numbers over the year earlier numbers are enough to outfit the Indian and US ground armies. (The Chinese and Indian armies are the worlds largest, we didn't quite buy enough extra to outfit the Chinese, but the total we bought was more than enough, but we do that every year.) A rifle behind every blade of grass is the way Yamamoto is said to have put it. Well, we have a lot more rifles now, but no more grass.

Since grass blades are kinda thin on the ground where I live, I'm scouting for a good cactus for my rifle(s) to be behind. Preferably one growing on a nice big rock. Sort of like the one I saw along the Battle Road between Lexington and Concord, only limestone instead of granite like I think that one is.

45 posted on 05/20/2009 5:54:10 PM PDT by El Gato ("The Second Amendment is the RESET button of the United States Constitution." -- Doug McKay)
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To: Armedanddangerous
Remington 870 express with pistol grip stock and 8 round magazine extension can put some high amounts of metal into a wide, but well controlled, area quickly and cheaply. The slugs can break things and knock things down that can't be pierced easily. BBB 3” shells are great harassing fire up close, hamburger maker 3-6” deep, 10” round at about 15 yards. That’ll put your eye out. About $22 box of 25 at Dicks. Got enough slugs and 00 buck to last a long, long time.
46 posted on 05/20/2009 5:54:26 PM PDT by USCG SimTech (Honored to serve since '71)
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To: panaxanax

When?


47 posted on 05/20/2009 5:55:45 PM PDT by sport
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To: Concho
People have enough ammo on hand now that they are beginning to lose their fear of the gubmint.

It is a beginning. But even ten thousand rounds of substantial defense calibers per person is not enough to lose their fear of the gubmint.

48 posted on 05/20/2009 5:55:49 PM PDT by Aroostook25
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To: Travis McGee

Travis,

You ruined it. I thought I was the only one who figured out that 7.62 x 25 was a great buy.

Now everyone will know!!!


49 posted on 05/20/2009 5:56:15 PM PDT by vladimir998 (Ignorance of Scripture is ignorance of Christ. St. Jerome)
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To: mrmeangenes
"Is all that hoarding out of fear - or are there other factors at work ??

Based on customer conversation at the two stores I frequently hang out at, it is 99% oscumbo.

The only other reasonable factor is economic-collapse protection. This factor is what caused me to stock up in the late 90's (and, again, after 9/11). Gold and 9mm for purchasing power. For everything else, 7.62, .223, .22, .45, and 12ga.

It wasn't until 2007, when it became obvious that the marxists would win the 2008 election that I began adding to that existing stock. Fortunately I reached my strategic goal before the ammo shortage and concurrent price hikes.

50 posted on 05/20/2009 5:57:00 PM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is another agitator for republicanism like Sam Adams when we need him?)
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To: El Gato
" A rifle behind every blade of grass is the way Yamamoto is said to have put it."

I read that a general talking to Stalin about the occupation of America was interrupted by Stalin, who said that, "you don't occupy a country that has 200 million snipers".

51 posted on 05/20/2009 6:02:17 PM PDT by blam
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To: mrmeangenes
Is all that hoarding out of fear - or are there other factors at work ??

You never know when the Gates of Hell will open ... What's your Zombie Plan???


52 posted on 05/20/2009 6:02:45 PM PDT by CapnJack
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To: DTogo
Yep, Walmart has a lot of 12 gauge general purpose shells for ~$22/100. Lots of .22LR out there too.

What WalMart are you shopping at that has .22 LR? At the WalMart, south Austin TX, that I visited last Sunday, the ammo shelves looked like it had been attacked by a swarm of lead and brass eating locusts, with termites coming by to cleam up the boxes. The only .22 they had was shorts and a few boxes of magnums. No LR. No handgun ammo, except maybe a box of .44 magnum or somesuch. No .223/5.56. No .308/7.62, No 7.62 of any sort, including 30-06 and .30 Carbine. Shotgun shells they had. No buckshot or slugs though. Just target and upland game loads, no shot larger than #6, that I saw, maybe the turkey hunters cleaned all the larger stuff out?

It was pretty much the same story, although not quite so bad for the shotshells, at the Gander Mountain store in far north Texas, that I went to a month or so ago. I bought a case of Remington shotgun shells, as that is my traditional Christmas gift to my brother's son, who is trapshooter.

53 posted on 05/20/2009 6:02:58 PM PDT by El Gato ("The Second Amendment is the RESET button of the United States Constitution." -- Doug McKay)
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To: wtc911
A real sign....the upper middle class to genuinely rich Jews (think guys like Chuckie Schumer) in Great Neck are hitting the gun shops like mad since January. Watching them look at the toys under the glass you’d think they were school girls looking at spiders.

They're not completely stupid. They remember the NYC Crown Heights Riots. They know that Democrat officials will not allow police to open fire on rioters just to save some affluent Jews.

Also, when the welfare checks don't come, and those people are looking for a source of cash, kidnapping the children of the wealthy for ransom will be on the table.

54 posted on 05/20/2009 6:03:31 PM PDT by PapaBear3625 (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money -- Thatcher)
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To: smokingfrog
"Bitterroot Valley Ammunition supplies other ammunition manufacturers around the country with the components needed to make bullets."

Lead pig?

55 posted on 05/20/2009 6:05:45 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (The beginning of the O'Bummer administration looks a lot like the end of the Nixon administration)
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To: mrmeangenes

It’s not fear for many of us but preparation.


56 posted on 05/20/2009 6:05:45 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Socialism is the belief that most people are better off if everyone was equally poor and miserable.)
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To: vladimir998

I just bought a set of Hogue grips in an exotic striped tulipwood for my CZ-52. Totally cool looking now, besides all the other great aspects of the pistol.


57 posted on 05/20/2009 6:05:52 PM PDT by Travis McGee ("Foreign Enemies And Traitors" pre-orders are being mailed out.)
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To: SuperLuminal
The only other reasonable factor is economic-collapse protection

You think 13 small town local cops will be able to keep order on 9000 scared, hungry, out-of-fuel, no comms, no electricity, thirsty, out of smokes, no booze "neighbors" for a couple weeks?

They'll be home protecting their own families just like I will be. Mad Max scenario will happen, just like Katrina, when the real collapse happens in a short while. (and there's not thing one anyone can do to stop it)

Protection from Gubmint? Yes, but very unlikely, see: oath-keepers.blogspot.com.

I work with these active duty every day since '71 and will be tomorrow and as long as God graces me to do so.

58 posted on 05/20/2009 6:11:26 PM PDT by USCG SimTech (Honored to serve since '71)
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To: KoRn
He said that the big stuff like buck shot and slugs wasn’t even necessary for home defense.

Home defense:


59 posted on 05/20/2009 6:12:20 PM PDT by angkor
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To: blam
I read that a general talking to Stalin about the occupation of America was interrupted by Stalin, who said that, "you don't occupy a country that has 200 million snipers".

Which would explain why the rats want to disarm the public - it should be pretty obvious by now that they share the dreams of Stalin. But, they're a little reluctant to carry the whole thing through due to the fact that the taxpayers are still well armed. And growing angry...

60 posted on 05/20/2009 6:12:47 PM PDT by meyer (Obama is to the USA as Mugabe is to Zimbabwe.)
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