Imagine the following headline on MSNBC or CNN: Gun Owners Arrested After Ammunition-Shopping Brawl. And now imagine how Michael Bloomberg and Michael Moore would salivate over the spectacle of gun owners behaving exactly like the violent, irresponsible and paranoid sociopaths they already believe us to be. An astute member of the Armed Intelligentsia was tipped off to an angry confrontation that recently occurred at a northwest Dick’s Sporting Goods store. Here’s what went down . . .
A crowd of ammo shoppers arrived twenty minutes before the store opened, hoping to buy up that morning’s anticipated shipment of ammo. This sounds a little extreme, but dozens of bricks of .22 ammo can sell out in minutes these days, and clever People of the Gun are learning which stores get their ammo shipments on which day.
The queue degenerated into shouts and name-calling, and we’re all goddamn lucky that Dick’s managers didn’t call the police in response to the near-brawl in their parking lot. They only let one ammo customer into the store at a time, and they only allowed limited individual purchases until their shipment of 7,000 rounds of .22 was sold out. Which only took ten minutes.
This isn’t the only near-brawl to break out between frustrated ammo shoppers (other area stores have seen actual shoving matches) and this kind of bullshit is starting to turn into a major embarrassment for us People Of The Gun. If it keeps up, this has the potential to turn from an ’embarrassment’ into a self-inflicted PR disaster. If these cro-mag ammo shoppers had been just a little more infantile, or if the Dick’s managers had been just a little less awesome, the cops would have showed up and taken somebody to jail. And those somebodies would have been gun owners (who else waits in line for ammo?) and probably CCW holders as well.
Do I need to mention that this would have ended up plastered all over CNN and MSNBC? Didn’t think so.
Please, let’s not give Bloomberg and Biden any more ammo while we’re out shopping for ours. This is not us, and this is not the way we win.
I love it!!! They called him on his attempt to bully Johanna Johnson-Smith and he whimpered way. This is how we win!!! Please keep pressing, don’t give him the room to live this down…
“Bullying” is precisely what he did.
Never appeal to a man’s better nature. He might not have one.
News flash, cornflake.
Most of us didn’t want THOSE rights eroded either. It’s people in power that think like you that ramrodded through unconstitutional legislation in a big hurry, without reading it, just to prove you were DOING SOMETHING.
Swear to God..all the trouble in the world is caused by people trying to do something about the “troublemakers”.
love a girl with big-guns
Answer #1. Because it is.
Answer #2 Because people don’t care as much about the others as they do about the Second.
Answer #3. Because if the second amendment goes down, the minor erosions seen so far in the others will get worse. A lot worse.
Why is any Defender of the 2nd Amendment shopping at Peckerhead Sporting Goods? If you have a short term memory problem I’ll remind you that they were the 1st national org to ban AR sales after Sandy Hook. Took them all of about 2 minutes.
But from a LEGITIMATE gun store. And that would be one that is not gouging (m11_9’s so called “market pricing”).
“We’ve already lost some of our essential liberties, it’s only fair that our other liberties be infringed equally.”
Really?
please stop . this is nuts folks. buy all means hunt down what you need for a little fun shooting of competitions you have planned, but DO NOT add to the “stash” . If you really want more, the premium and buy it on gunbroker or auction arms from other shooters.
this situation is being exacerbated by people spending their spare time “cruising ” stores fo ammo. It keeps the shelves empty.
I wonder if we can find someone to primary the guy next election? If not, can we find a way to infiltrate the party that put him up for election, and overturn their power base. In other words, like the leftists )(Marston) have done, take over the parties at the local/county level. We have to start undoing the damage that the left has done, and the only way to do that is to get active, and remain active.
Obama has created exactly what he set out to create within the ranks of gun owners….
– Expensive firearms
– Lack of availability
– Ammo shortages
– Extremely high-priced rifle and pistol rounds
Why legislate gun control when we will do it to ourselves. That said – I’m just as guilty as the everyone else on buying up any reasonably priced ammo that I see on the shelves. I think the majority of us don’t see this deficit going away for at least a year, maybe more.
Who doesn’t think that this is all happening by design? And who has more to gain from this than the gun grabbers in Washington DC?
That’s EXACTLY what I think! Everything happens for a reason. There are no coincidences.
I doubt there were any semi-automatic rifles there to be stolen. None to be had in my local gun stores. 😉
These weren’t chiefs of police. They were Generals who get a nice fat retirement to live comfortably away behind gated communities.
“…not for cowards to use…”
What the hell?
Not for a movie theater, not for the streets.. Hey, I agree with them. It is wrong for a nut to shoot up a movie theater. Deal with them, leave me alone.
Honestly all these commercials or what ever, I don’t see them.. The MAIG needs to be disbanded.
Since they’re retired, and I’m active duty, I feel pretty comfortable telling these OFWG O-7/8/9s to FOAD.
It’s almost as much fun as telling retirees to mind their business when they attempt to correct me on uniform regs.
If guns kill people then journalists write the truth.
This goes back to the whole, “pencil makes my mistakes” thing, its so simple and effective to say but people ignore it.
And correct me if im wrong but is he calling pro-gun people terrorists?
She’s 16? I thought she was 20. Oh well dumb as a stump all the same. Im fairly sure her only purpose was to attract viewers because she certainly didn’t know anything about guns. Makes me question if she’s an actual family member.
The entertainment stars in the first video quickly lost credibility. Now they are using old retired men to play the “elite card” – that everyone should agree with them because they know more about weapons than the rest of the American public. I call BS.
Am I the only one who smells a dirty rat regarding this “ammo shortage”? When orders increase dramatically, isn’t it normal business practice to increase production proportionally, by hiring extra shift workers and materials?
Has the Obamament secretly intimidated ammo manufacturers into DECREASING production?
Watch this space.
P.S.
If your government can take it away from you, it’s not a right.
Well shows how GRAA works. God to see Americans defeat fascist like this city councilman.
He said that? You have to be kidding me. WHY ARE ANY OF OUR RIGHTS ERODED IN THE NAME OF SAFETY? How can he possibly not understand this… BLown away man.
Same thing happened to me. I ordered because when I did it was “in stock”. I then find out that it is actually not in stock, but on back order and only like a week out. Then an update that it would still ship, but was a few more weeks out. I got the same cancelation letter yesterday. This is roughly a six weeks after the original order.
My preference would have been to keep on back order or offer up a substitution at the very least. All I can say is that I better not see any .223 in stock at Cabelas for months and months and months. If they do restock this soon, but at a much higher price, I will make sure everyone knows.
I understand that prices from distributors might go up. A simple letter from Cabelas management explaining the issue would be better.
These are unique times, and clearly these businesses do not have systems to deal with this, but there are several ways to deal with it. Old fashioned customer service and better communication is key.
From my perspective, the prices have risen a bit (in Utah). I will allow myself to visit the gun counter at Wally World and other places, if I’m already there. It appears that the ammo shortage is getting under control. That said, the price gougers are in full force on the various online firearm sites in the state.
I’ve limited myself to only shooting the amount of ammunition that I’ve already replenished. It looks like I’ll have to stop using my Browning Buckmark pretty soon.
At least I will be able to get some .223 practice in…
Robert, thanks for the link.
I didn’t post the entire conversation (because they haven’t announced yet), but he did say that you should watch for an announcement around June or so. Not trying to be coy, just promised that I wouldn’t let the cat out of the bag.
You might be right, but I’m not going to take your word for it.
Derp.
Cause the 2nd Amendment has not been touched, right? Not a single gun law ever passed anywhere. Not a single restriction ever put in place anywhere. Or, maybe 22,000 of them. Because I’m pretty sure the 18-month, $400 process I went through to get a pistol permit in Westchester County New York wasn’t someone’s idea of a joke.
This guy is a dumba**.
Eh didn’t this happen to red jacket too, as will hayden lost his ffl and had to use someone else’s? So woulnd’t the FFL be up his ass for not securing the weapons properly?
Name a country that allows its military to decide matters of policy and maintains its liberty. Turkey is the only one that I can come up with where the military has for a long time been seen as preserving the rights of citizens, and that’s a sketchy case.
I’m so happy I stocked up on 10k+ rounds of 7,62×39(even though it’s back in stock in many online stores now) and mostly only shoot 80-90 grain .223 in my two ARs which of course are single hand fed and quite easy to find. I can find basic 55 grain all over my area in WI privately but of course the prices people want for .223 77 grain and under are ridiculous. I can still buy Hornady .223 40, 43, 55 and 75 grain for 175 per 200 rounds. And Black Hills .223 in 40, 69 and 77 grain for 725-875 per 1,000 rounds with added shipping costs of course but I no longer shoot short range with my .223 now so even when things go back to normal I will be investing in reloading supplies for mostly heavy grain long range as that’s where the fun is for me. I can shoot mag after mag from my AK all day for short and mid-range, just not feasible or fun anymore to do that from the AR.
Just make sure you’re not late getting that School Tax check in the mail.
This is clearly a mentally challenged individual, who wears the tin foil hat to bed and work. A normal person does not make the jump from a mountain to a firearm out of a freaking pop-tart! This person is clearly an anti-gunner, or as I am calling them now, anti-rights, anti-constitution, and anti-Bill Of Rights. This person has a grudge. And wants to ensure that this kid remembers what happened to him when someone THOUGHT he was thinking of a gun. He wants to ensure the kid always sees guns as a negative object that made him have a horrible experience. Even when he was thinking of a mountain made out of pop-tarts. Maybe this person knows the family and they are gun owners?
Rest assured, this poor kid will always remember what happened when somebody thought he was thinking of a pop-tart gun. And this is clearly an attempt to ensure he will always have a negative memory when anything “gun” ever crosses his path. Trying to ensure another generation of weak individuals who hate guns. Have to start them young ya know.
How does a person not lose his job for attempting to put his thoughts into the mind of a child, and then has the child SUSPENDED. Is it illegal to think? What if the kid was making abstract art..unlikely, but what gives this person the right to even consider this type of action and punishment?
this is mind-blowing stuff here
Sounds like class A bullsh!t.
Gee, who’d have thought that a spineless liberal twat would immediately shrivel up when face-to-face with the people he’d so brazenly insulted from behind his keyboard?
Yo, Marston: what happened to all those “clubs of reason and responsibility” you were supposed to be beating them down with, you smug little wiseass?
Soon, they will ban the letter “L”, “J”, and “T” (“T” has the little shoulder thingy that goes up)
So frikking stupid, it would be funny if it wasn’t so serious.
And with this, Utah will be the first state with a perfect, lowest possible -2 score out of 100 from the Brady Campaign.
“The dumbing down of america” Charlotte Thomson Iserbyt
Read it, memorize it, and make a decision on where you will send your kids (and i guarantee it wont be a public school).
A pro-gun organization should start their own “Demand a Plan” campaign. Use the same style and everything, but with strongly pro-gun messaging. Demand a plan to stop gun violence and protect gun rights. Confuse the heck out of everyone because they’ll no longer know what sort of “plan” they’re “demanding”.
You wascawy wabbit.
SO if he is for hunting but no guns outside of home how this blow heart thinks we can hunt in our homes????? LOL
…………. 2nd Amendment ……………..
Because governments executed over
100 million people in the 20th century
Mirrors work both ways – a bad idea. Motion sensors tied to an alarm with a keychain panic button bedside is a much better way to go.
Alarm, Alarm, Alarm
Really? Seriously? Honestly, how can this even be a point of discussion? How does this left-wing, progressive, one-world government loving, Brit get away with even pretending to speak for Americans?