Posted on 10/03/2016 3:45:31 PM PDT by Red in Blue PA
Gun sales hit the 17th consecutive monthly record in September according to FBI data released on Monday, and overall sales are up 27 percent compared to the same period last year.
A total of 1,992,219 background checks were processed through the bureau's National Instant Criminal Background Check System for the month of September, higher than the 1,795,102 conducted in September 2015.
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And y’all doubted the Terrorist in Chief was getting the economy going.
They’ll try confiscating the guns of others first.
That’s when the balloon goes up.
CW II.
I’ll have plenty of time.
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Jerry Brown sold me three new guns in the last 30 days or so. (and the store is not going to give him a commission)
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In an odd Bizarro world kind of way, Jerry Brown is a patriot.
The old straight-walled cartridges, at least, can literally be hand-loaded with nothing but a measure, strong hands, and a pocket knife. Makes me want to get an old lever gun (the newly manufactured ones are crap) and a single-six both in 45lc. I am a cowboy, after all, even though nobody but me knows it.
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You misspelled Patoot!
We did a cost analysis on whether to reload or buy and it was a wash.
I did cowboy shooting a few years back, and 45LC cartridges which cost me 75 cents a round in the store could be reloaded by me for around 15 cents a round. No ways I would have competed if I had to pay off the shelf prices for that ammo week in and week out.
If I had some spending money, I’d buy another gun or three. Unfortunately, I already spent it all on guns.
I have been buying mags this summer and fall. I used to think 33 round Glock mags were for gangtas only, now after seeing some of the rioting taking place, I have them in my house, my car and am stocking up on them.
Buy em cheap and stack em deep.
Thou shalt be Flogged!
The ammo I use in my hunting rifle costs almost $3 a round to buy.
I can reload it for $ 2.08 cents a round using new brass. Every time I resize and use that brass again for reloading each round cost me .80 cents.
Reloading for my pistols is 1/3 the cost of purchasing ammo.
And I get much more accurate ammo to boot. But I shoot a lot as I have a range on my property.
YMMV
We’re not into shooting all that much, just to keep in practice at the local range. The brass goes to the range. Call it convenience: reloading vs buying.
“I used to think 33 round Glock mags were for gangs only”
And then there are these: http://www.betaco.com/cmag_product_details.asp?product=25
Hitlery will put her lacky in the Supreme Court, the say the militia is the National Guard only. Then she will direct the FBI, ATF, etc. To confiscate everything.
That is why i will put everything in an irrevokable trust with my wife as trusty. Then when i’m dead by hitlery’s hands i won’t ha e any assets for them to take.
I reload but it’s hard to pass up the Russian steel case. 1000 rds cost little more than you can buy components for, at least in .223 or 7.62x39.
In the bond film Skyfall and its opening sequence, one of the villains had a full auto pistol a beta mag though it did not have 2 systems like that has. He must have fired 1000 shots in the opening scene and never reloaded. Most people in the theater probably do not catch that but it was annoying as hell to be insulted like that.
I have neighbors like that - told me it’s roughly 65k loose rounds/ton.
Depending on the caliber. Like .22’s - something like 20 thousand rounds are roughly eighty pounds.
I can display this statistically....
Every time a sworn peace officer I the US cashes a paycheck a private citizen buy a gun.
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