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If you want to be taken seriously you must be careful with language. The constitution does not guarantee firearms freedom. Firearms freedom is a slogan. The constitution’s language is more nuanced. The amendment you appear to rely on uses also the words “well regulated” and regulation has been found constitutional by your supreme court. Am I alone in finding your whiney absolutism somewhat tedious? Do you not see that you have a problem? Can you not accept that rights also come with responsibilities? Do you intend ever to propose anything constructive or will it be forever only this perpetual bleat of victimisation?
My absolutism isn’t whiny.
Yesterday, I heard of $90.00 being charged for 525 round bricks at a Texas gun show. That’s 17.15 cents / round – a 400% increase over the past 90 days.
Local gun store posted on FB that they had some 555 round boxes of Federal for $100. Sad thing is, they were probably bought at the Walmart that’s less than a mile away for 1/4 that.
Last summer the CMP had a case (5k rnds) of 22lr mil surp Rem for 90 bucks. If i recall they sold 4 million rnds in 72 hours. These are bizzaro times indeed.
I don’t remember that but I did get in on a group buy through my CMP affiliated club last year @$100/case (.02/rd.). They came back in stock briefly in September and I bought another case for $150 + s&h. It took them almost two months to fill the order but thankfully they filled it.
I’m still fairly well-stocked in ammo, overall, because I’m clearly the only one who loaded up before the election. But with no end in sight to this ammo shortage, I’m about to shut down everything except my .22 LRs. I just won’t pay >.50/rd. for “bargain” .223/5.56.
While there are many people who purchased in fear that ammo was to become unavailable soon-rightfully so-the fact is that MANY have taken ammo off the shelves purely for profit. Supply and demand. Go to Wally World buy cheap-then run a local ad offering ammo at X price because “you can cry over my pricing-but you can’t find ’em anywhere else”
I wouldn’t give you a penny per round for Rem Golden Boys. They worked poorly last time I tried, in a bolt action, can’t imagine in a semi auto. I can easily wait for better stuff.
Not my experience. RGBs work as well as CCI in my 1911-22. My Savage Mk II eats anything.
Sorry, but heroin killed off Lennon’s creativity long before the bullet did.
Thank you Uncle Ho. I mean Uncle Barrack. From your Jr. Brownshirt Group 666
“I’ll give you my gun when you pry it from my greasy, Crayola stained hands.”
The prices have gotten too high for me, and I won’t pay it anymore. I realize they’re getting it somewhere, but the pot’s too rich for my blood. When the price get back down to fairly reasonable levels, I’ll shoot again, till then it’s dry fire or pellets.
Eventually this is going to really start hurting some of the shooting ranges, if it hasn’t already. The manufacturers need to stop selling to the Government (at dirt cheap prices, no less), and focus on the public a little more.
Such a true statement, but when the public doesn’t buy (normally) in the volume the government does, that’s gov’t contract really helps your business…the same rings true for all industries…yea, you’re margin isn’t as good…but like Walmart…if I can sell hundreds of widgets for $10 profit each or sell a million for $6 profit each…one puts more money in your pocket TODAY. That’s how the gov’t works. I personally don’t think that the gov’t should be able to have firearms other than police forces and military. There is no reason we have to pay for their range time either. Let them qualify once a year…100 rounds max. Outside of that it’s on them to practice. It’s how local PD forces do it. Why should the feds be different? If they need the practice, why shouldn’t we get tax write offs for our ammo usage as it’s key to protecting ourselves and our communities…that’s what the 2nd amendment was for…an armed population that would use their shooting skills for the greater good of the community…if gov’t gets to use tax dollars for it, I want a write off on my ammo!!!
All the .22 i see is at least 20 cents.
Despite the propaganda, Nixon was not a “conservative.” He was a solid eastern establishment Republican who had more to do with creating the modern welfare state than did LBJ. If NIxon were alive today, he would be Lincoln Chafee.
As a Financial Analyst for a production company(not firearms related), I’m able to guess what ammo companies are probably thinking…they’ve expanded their hours of production meaning they have extra overtime cost for presumably hourly workers. That’s OK because the added sales in theory cover those costs. It also would reduce their overhead(cost of building, electricity, water, space, taxes, non production people like finance, administration, accounting, marketing, r&d expenses now spread over more product). Now, with supplies being low to none, demand is through the roof. This means prices increase. Now, the ammo companies probably recognize this is temporary…it may last months or even years, but nonetheless temporary. If they hire extra workers and make extra production lines, this reduces their overhead and, when things calm down, will cost them more…so they have no motivation to expand their lines. They enjoy the better profit margins and reduced overhead for the time being and wait for things to calm down. Will prices come down? That’s my concern. What’s your motivation to lower prices. Until supply grows so heavy that they can’t sell it, then, and ONLY then, will prices come down.
The best we can do as gun nuts is to scale back our shooting. I know I have just to save on digging into my personal inventory. It’s not the answer any of us want to hear as I’d love nothing more than to eat a brick of .22lr or enjoy shooting 200 rounds through my AR-15 but if we all hold off a bit, and uncle sam stops using our tax dollars to build up their inventory (enough so every government worker could spend the next two months shooting a few hundred rounds a week) then supply will catch up and we’ll suddenly see prices back to normal. Unfortunately, not all of us have a large inventory at home…I understand that…but my guess is the only way we’ll see prices drop is if we a pro-gun President is elected in 2016 and Obama is nothing but a faded nightmare for us. Then we’ll see prices come down…or so I hope. I swear, if 5.56 ever gets back down to .10 a round I’ll invest in tens of thousands of rounds so the next Obama(unfortunately there is probably some nightmare of a person out there now waiting to become President someday and go after our guns a decade or two from now) that I’ll have a good inventory. The ability to practice like we have and enjoy our sport has been stolen by Obama…we have the anti-gunners to thank…they don’t understand our sport. They don’t understand how knowing we can defend our home, our families, and others around us is a source of pride and comfort to us. They don’t understand how target shooting is a fun hobby. The President himself enjoys golf…and while the driving range is fun enough, the golf swing has never felt natural to me. Let him enjoy his sport and he should let us enjoy ours…as a golf club could be used as a weapon if desired too…
Invest in reloading, vice supporting this market bubble.
+1
And if you stop watching cable news and reality TV and spend the same amount of time reloading instead you’ll be a much happier person and it remains a time neutral investment.
No, I hunt in my Santa outfit – Sheeesh!
I think it’s great to find common ground with the ACLU. One day we may even persuade the national org on the 2nd Amendment!
But what is ‘ACLU’s defense of seemingly indefensible behavior’? It’s all in the Constitution last time I checked?
Patience and timing, fellow shooters! Just picked up two 525 round bricks for $20 each and 50 round boxes of Tula 9mm for $10 each. My secret? I walked into this place called “Walmart” for the parabellum, and Dunn’s sporting goods for the lr ammo. For the .22 enthusiast I recommend quality time with a bolt action and/or single action revolver to pace your rounds. My battered Marlin 25 and new-to-me Ruger Single Six just got exercised yesterday as the kids and I eradicted some very threatening cans! Plus, you can shoot cheaper, less potent ammo because you cycle a bolt or cylinder. The timing does require a few fruitless visits, but I’m willing to spend a little time to save a lot of money.
The pisser is I was going to buy two of theses at Gander Mt just before the scare and put one back.
Pellet guns. I’m looking into muzzleloaders and archery. In my yoot we could get .22 LR for less than a penny a round.
I will not be disarmed, even if it means simply storing my guns and the ammo I have until they’re needed.
I own some British desert BDU pants that I cut up into shorts for work, but I’d probably wear them no matter what color they were. British desert gear is amazing when you’re out working in the hot sun.
I like painted guns, mostly just because after working on “tacticool black” Hollywood guns I am bored to shit with black. The thing they say about Hollywood lacking originality is true, at least when it comes to the look of weapons. Any time you set a table with weapons for the director to take his pick from, he will IMMEDIATELY latch onto the blackest, most recognizable gun because it “looks right”, ignoring the fact that it looks right because it looks like what everyone else before him has used. God forbid the hero use anything other than a black MP5, M4, Glock, or M9… and don’t be bothering the director with pictures of guys in the sandbox who have rattle-canned their weapons! Black! Black! All must be black! Unless it’s a badguy in which case we’ll give him a chrome Desert Eagle!
The only painted (real) guns I have are a sage green AR with an Irish harp stenciled on the stock and a 2-tone blue 9mm AR, but I’m not against doing a camo one someday. Camo pistols really bug me though, for the “where’s my gun” reason you mentioned.
As someone who’s been reading the case law for 30 or 40 years, I’d say that Joe knows precisely d!ck.
rei, mountain hardwear, arcteryx, marmot, etc kills any of that ‘tactical’ crap. and they don’t make camo cuz they’re tree hugger companies.
So, no camo, but drab green, browns, grays, blacks, yes.
Blending in with the masses is the most tactical you can get. white t shirt. leather jacket. jeans. new era or beanie. minivan. i was cool once, but not anymore.
Lesson for the future, when the price of ammo returns to semi-reasonable:
Buy a brick a week, or a brick every other week, until you have at least 10k rounds as a base. Then buy what you need to shoot on a monthly basis. Even at $20/brick, you should be able to scrounge up that much from your weekly budget without perishing from hunger. You know, skip a couple of fast food meals and drink plain tap water instead of the $2/bottle stuff. Or even – wow, this is radical – cancel your cable TV and start reading books! (OK,OK, sorry – that is kind of crazy advice, ignore it.)
The only camo I own is a pinstriped suit and a rep tie.
I like Colt, but they are too expensive. Their main product lines (AR15’s & m1911’s) are nice, but cost more than the competition. Also losing their M4 contract to FN will hurt their revenue stream. Maybe they should leave Connecticut and rethink their business plan.
Does Hello Kitty Pink count?
But seriously; the same guys that rant about Green Guns will buy a shirt or windbreaker designed to hide their CC, so what’s the diff, over?
On a practicle note: In a recent long term storage test I discovered that the only metal items that did not rust were those that were painted or dipped in a camo pattern.
I can’t believe ol’ nutty Joe – the other one – would embarrass himself like that.
Better to stay silent etc….. Cruz is on more than solid ground and these pathetic attempts to intimidate him I’m sure will more than fail.
His point is something that started in the academic community a few years ago with the publication of an article in the Yale Law Journal by Sanford Levinson entitled “The Embarrassing Second Amendment” which brought out the very concerns that Cruz asked about. What if we treated the favorite Amendments of the Libs & Moderates with the same contempt as we do the 2nd?
A very good question and evidently one that makes the establishment so nervous that they can think of no answer for Cruz Control except their usual bluster, personal attacks and pitch to emotion.
Score this a home run!
Like Robert said, it ain’t over ’til it’s over.
In this case with these holier than thou confiscation determined extreme anti 2A Democrats the battle will never truly be over.
The ONLY legitimate method to change the 2A is through another Amendment to the US Constitution. But these liberal gun grabbing extremists know that they will never garner the support to get a counter amendment ratified by enough states to become law. So they use the underhanded approach. If they can’t accomplish their goals at the federal level, they will pursue them at the state level as they have and continue to do right now in Kalifornia, New York, Illinois, and to a lesser extent in Colorado and other states where there is a Democrat run government.
This fight may never end.
This happened right after Elvis tried to give Milhous an engraved revolver, right?
IMHO, Mrs. Feinstein never honestly answered the question(s); She admitted nothing, denied everything, and made counter accusations (really, bazookas?). Deceptive in every way (read Spy the Lie, ISBN-10: 125000585X). Also, it appears she herself is suffering PTSD and never has properly addressed the issue. Just as it apparently in her mind disqualifies men and women in the armed forces who are returning from the war zone, should this then disqualify her holding office and specifically, being part of any of these committees. In short, she has not been in her right mind for decades and has had significant impairment in social, occupational, or other important areas of functioning such as understanding and/or believing she has the right to destroy the Constitution as part of her hyper-vigilance.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posttraumatic_stress_disorder
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypervigilance
Colt is welcome in East TN. Anderson County, Campbell County, & Tennessee Technology Corridor.
I am of the Mayberry school of policing.
the police are here to protect and serve
police ask to chat with you.
If they serve a warrant at least one officer is in usual uniform.
And the standard speech goes:
Yes sir, I am sure you can beat/stab/shoot me. But if you do that, I will crawl out and summon help. Again, you might be able to defeat us. But then, we will crawl out
and summon more help. And you know, eventually we will take you in.
But since its such a nice day and we both have other things to do, why dont you just come quietly with me and we will get this over with as soon and as painlessly as possible.
Sometimes it works, other times you get to call in help.
But starting with an armored vehicle doesnt do much for letting folks deescalate the situation. It also encourages folks to study up on IEDs.
I don’t see your objection to the class in the video. It looks fine to me.
Colt is going to have to do something.
They have lost most .mil business.
If they stay, they will hurt their civilian business that is already hurt by high prices.
They have pretty much ceded their handgun business to the competition. They have no modern pattern pistol, and they made their double action revolvers collector’s items by quitting the market.
Unless they feel they can make a go of it selling carbines to leo’s and single action revolvers that is.
The business case for moving exists.
As a former knife grinder I can’t say how excited I am about this new web site!
Now where’s the bill cap you promised?
I’m waiting for TheTruthAboutCrossbows.com
I don’t understand any of this.
Last simulated CQB course I took in the military- a barrel pointed northward got me dressed down like a marine recruit. Muzzles down boys, then that fall and shoot goes into the dirt.
Mark, you really don’t see a distinction between vehicular accidents and homicides with firearms? Don’t get me wrong, I don’t think anti-@A make a lot of valid points (and the article doesn’t) but you can’t deny that firearms can be misused; and if you are going to, you will have to do better than bringing car accidents in this context.
I hope this doesn’t over-shadow my documentary revealing a unicorn hunt I had with Santa Claus. I stand to make some some money from that!