http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zx9DwDmB9VE
Thanks to a lack of baby-sitter coverage I was unable to join TTAG writer Alan Brooks at Asgard Training to secure my Texas Concealed Handgun License. Bummer. It could have been even more of a bummer; Alan couldn’t source the required 100 rounds of .45 caliber ammo. Nor could he find 100 rounds of .38 for his GF. Luckily, I had a supply. His near-miss illustrates a sad fact: popular pistol caliber ammo is still is short supply here in The Lone Star State. How’re things in your neck of the woods?
Now a full auto version,well,That’s an assault rifle,an AR is just a rifle and since the Anti’s are so stupid about guns anyway there is no use in explaining what a selector switch is.Or should we?
We have lots of ammo and reloading supplies here in Wisconsin! 22lr is still rare and expensive however.
Really? A Rhode Island Republican Rifle Raffle not respected by that Irascible Rag? I’m ready to regurgitate.
No I still can’t find 12 gauge in wally world and the stuff in my LGS is expensive like 30 bucks for a box of 4 slugs.
You live in NYC? Mass?
Scarce around here in Florida. Fortunately, I’m “GTG!”
And, what IS available… is stupid-expensive. Same goes for what’s available from all the usual online sources. Crazy prices.
Except for 22LR it’s back to normal in Northern Virginia.
Define “back to normal.” To me, that would mean available stock at pre-Sandy-Hook prices. So, you can get .223 for 30 – 34 cents a round?
Here in the Dayton area of Ohio, it’s available- not at the best of prices, but it’s available. 50 cents/round for M193 or M855, 40 cents/round for PMC Bronze 55 gr .223. Handgun ammo is about 50-60 cents/round for .45ACP, about 35-45 cents/round for 9mm.
I’m still having trouble finding 22lr, 9mm and .380 in central Missouri. To be honest I have found about 5000 rounds of 22lr, just not the brands I wanted. That was going to walmart every day for about 3 months (and hating what they call service) and lucking out on Midway once.
Here in KS you can get almost everything except .22LR. It looks like pre December 2012 at the big stores. The smaller stores seem to be sold out. I know some of the stores are refusing to buy at current prices because they don’t make any money on it.
Last month I was buying like crazy, even .22lr. Back to nothing in stores again this month.
Wal-Mart is still empty. The new Field & Stream store was well-stocked for a while, but they’re running low. Everywhere else is slim pickings. I was able to pick up a little bit more, but my supplies are still short.
A lot of people are probably going to give you grief for shopping at Dick’s Sporting Goods( aka Field and Stream).
Dick’s opened up a new store in Tallahassee and they are still too pussified to put up any semi-auto rifles other than 10/22’s etc. They can rot in hell before I buy anything from them.
Southern Central PA has all the ammo you could want but, with a few caveats. 9mm and 22lr are still rare and everything else is 50-100% more than this time last year. Reloading supplies however, are a different matter. Few and far between and expensive locally. The internet has gotten way better for supplies lately. I havent shot a round that I didn’t reload in at least 3 years and I have no plans to change that.
Central Iowa here… No problems, except .22lr.
Popular calibers are still rare in Southern California. Powder and other components do not exist here.
i haven’t seen .22 in so cal this YEAR!
Colorado is working on repealing those illegal laws,Maryland has tons of lawsuits on the newly restrictive laws.Illinois just got their butts clipped and had to repeal all their mag laws..The other states have lawsuits and battles going on to repeal magazine limitations.So get all you can get and go where you can get them as Americans need to be be as well armed as anybody in the world,that includes our government ,as written in the Constitution.
You hear about the thug treyvon martin episode for about a year straight from every liberal in the world and their media, but you have a straight up assassination here and it’s, well,..you see,.. she had emotional/mental issues and, uh,.. case closed.
Were they “undercover” or just off-duty? There is a difference. My understanding is one was an undercover cop, who happened to be part of the group, and the others were just off-duty cops, that were either part of the group or were along for that particular ride.
Serve and protect, indeed.
Gonna echo what folks are saying here: Mostly everything but .22LR … (Colorado). 9mm is hit or miss but not unobtanium, .380 is a ghost though, too, like .22lr
.223/5.56 available, .45 is gettable but expensive.
Improving in MA, particularly for 5.56/.223. 9mm and .22lr still scarce. Ammo prices are up 25-50% though and some shops have limits.
Good to hear that it went much better than the last Somali snatch and grab.
And this is why I’m glad to be a Tennessean! All my life and always will be! Tennessee ranks 3rd out of all 50 States as far as freedom. Only behind North & South Dakota.
Unfortunately, in TN, the no gun signs on businesses etc. carry the force of law.
Sorry, but that’s a failure on the part of the trainer. While you may not like the price, there is a bunch of ammo available if you think about where you are going to get it from. Here’s just one place where you can choose type, price, quantity, manufacturer, etc… 🙂 Delivered to your door.
http://ammoseek.com/?gun=handgun&cal=48&type=&grains=0&mfg=&ikw=&ekw=&noblanks=noblanks&sortby=cpr&find_ammo=1
Found bulk 500 rounds. CCI 22lr at indoor gun range on the counter as I was checking out, Should have purchased more but only brought one box. Still have a good supply of .22lr, 9mm, 380.
Need more 357s and 38s for new Ruger GP 100 3″ Talo version revolver, winging it’s way to local gun store this week.
Planning Christmas shopping in October for ammo. Nothing says Merry Christmas like the gift of ammo
A couple of weeks ago, I visited a Bass Pro Shop in Fort Myers, Florida. For pistol ammo, they had a 2′ X 1′ shelf with a few boxes of premium HPs in .45-ACP and .38-SPL. The whole lot could have fit into a single standard shopping bag with room to spare. That was it! And, they were pricey.
They had a bit of rifle ammo in oddball hunting calibers. Plenty of shotgun ammo. And, oddly enough… a fair bit of reloading components.
This video also illustrates that these people have no idea about what guns, and gun laws are. Personally I wouldn’t spend $2200 on my child for his first rifle, and it wouldn’t be an AKS-74, and I think that the Beretta 92 it a little to big to pocket carry.
The local Cabela’s here in NE has plenty of everything except for 9mm and any rimfire. I’ve been thinking about picking up a .40 or .45 just so I can have something with available ammo.
“One more wrinkle: some states maintain a registry of all private firearms sales (e.g., Connecticut, New York and New Jersey)”
This is not true. Private firearms sales are not recorded by New York. Perhaps they keep track of FFL transfers, but not of private transfers.
Maine here.
Most popular pistol rounds are easy to come by. They’re just 5-10 cents per round more expensive than they were this time last year :/
I befriended a neighbor that works at a major ammo manufacturer and i get a deal on factory “seconds”.
I’ve been able to buy .45, .32, and .38 spl at various Walmarts in WV, and I pick up three boxes of 7.62×39 virtually every time I’m there.
Haven’t seen 9mm there yet, but my local sporting goods stores have it. Expensive, but I’d rather pay $20 a box and have it than see that it is sold out at $15.
.22 is still scarce. When I do favors for my friends, I ask that they pay me in .22 if they have it!
back in the late 90s, i used to walk the campus of the University of Alabama all night when i couldn’t sleep. I stuck to the Quad most times. i had to admit that at 2 a.m., i felt safer there than in my backyard back home (rural AL at 2 a.m. had lots of feral dogs, coyotes, and other things to worry about.) I have visited other campuses and instantly felt unsafe. I think since colleges are always filled with protestors fighting for all kinds of causes, i would feel okay buying my child a pistol and helping them get a CCW permit, and tell them carrying to every class is a “silent protest” against the victim-state universities want. Believe me, the day a killer kicks in a door and starts spraying, if my kid defended his/her self, the other classmates would not complain about the gun they brought to class. too happy to be alive.
I can find 9*18 Makarov ammo really cheap online. Managed to get a brick of 22 at the local gun show in Ft. Lauderdale.
Here in TN, 22 LR is easy-ish to find…if you’re willing to spend a few hours waiting outside before the local sporting goods store opens on Saturday mornings. I was actually able to pick up a couple 1400 round buckets in the last few weeks, but those are hit and miss.
.223/5.56 is available, but decent stuff is still running ~50 cents a round. Hell, my local Walmart has had a 1000 round box of Federal 5.56 62 gr. on the shelf for a week ($447).
.45 and 9mm are hit and miss, you can usually find some, but it’s not packing the shelves, it might last hours instead of minutes, sometimes as long as a day or two.
It seems that all in all, everything has slowed down from a few months ago, with the exception of .22
Gun raffles are fantastic ways to raise money.
Here in North Texas I’ve seen raffles for rifles and pistol generate tens of thousands of dollars for charity.
Officer Patmon seems like a fine dad and LEO, but he should really STFU about the details.
I’m pretty sure this lawyer would add “even if you’re a LEO you shouldn’t talk to the police”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wXkI4t7nuc
I’m seeing everything except .22lr here in North Texas, at near before panic buying prices too.
Makes me want to shave my beard off and burn my flannel. I wish these hipsters would stop appropriating my look, trendsetter that I am.
I thought this kind of statement is exactly what they teach you NOT to say in a concealed carry class. Now if a robber does come into his store, and he does shoot the robber, the police can say he was just looking for an excuse to shoot someone.
Awesome write up. Well said!
PETE, Did you notice your Coonan was not a 1911 .45? Funny how you dont speak to the accuracy? This gun flexes when fired, tight rails equate to broken gun. The looser this goose is the more accurate it becomes.
Liberals tell us they are all about choice . . . . except when it comes to choosing to own/possess a firearm, and the type of lightbulbs, showerheads, toilets & automobile fuel we use.
Remember kiddies, elections matter. So make sure you vote Republican every, damn, time!!
Is unfamiliar man” now the “Newspeak” used for criminal black male? From my considerable news readings that is the documented event.
Cabelas in STL is cool except for .380 FMJ. I have 12,000+ rds of various calibers stock piled, even after a visit to Asymmetric Solutions yesterday
Still can’t get .22lr or 9mm FMJs, but everything else is available if a bit pricey. I got 4 boxes of 38 last weekend and plan to go shooting in the next couple of weeks with it 😀
TO: All
RE: The Scenarios
Numbers 2, 4 and 5 are easy. Pull your gun.
Number 3 is ‘awkward’. Tell him you don’t have any cash and play it by ear from there.
Number 1 is ‘awful’. Before he fastens his seat belt, punch it and then slam on the brakes and hope he breaks his neck on the windshield. THEN pull your gun or knife and finish him off.
Regards,
Chuck(le)
[Be Prepared…..]
P.S. We had an instance of #5.
10 pm. We were in the living room (ground floor) watching a movie when someone tried to come in the locked front door. They were trying real hard.
I was (weapon drawn) behind the 3-wyth brick beside the door yelling at them to back off. They claimed they thought my house was a group home. I told them it wasn’t and to go away.
They went away…..
I have been able to purchase ammunition in any caliber that I want at what are basically reasonable prices since October 2012. That said, it was quite difficult and anything but ideal. I have brands or types of ammunition that I would not normally purchase. I routinely stop into every store that sells ammunition — occasionally finding what I want and usually striking out. I routinely check ammunition distributors who sell via the Internet — occasionally finding what I want and usually striking out. I have two other people constantly on the lookout for me. I purchase a little bit more than what I am going to use that month. I think you get the idea.
It’s possible to find any caliber of ammunition. You just have to turn over every single rock and not be picky.
Utah is getting better without being great. I can afford to be picky again on 556 and 45, but 22 is still a hot commodity, like everywhere else it seems. Walmart and sportsmens warehouse have helped keep the pricing from terrible, but some of these local shops are out of hand on pricing, and it sucks. Cabelas was keeping me stocked like a bandit on 30 carbine and tokarev, but now that’s dried up. I had a lot of fun during the panic buy, but now the secondary calibers are running dry, and they aren’t a priority stock for most these guys.
Dunno about you Robert but I haven’t had a problem finding anything down here in San Antonio. 22LR, 9×19, 5.56×45, you name it. Cost is a little up but it’s there at the brick and mortar stores everywhere I have been especially at the new Gander Mtn. we got here (our first).
I am a patient man though, I’ll scour for good deals online and wait for ammo if I need to and of course reload when I can.
I’m a little concerned that TTAG is performing gun reviews with such a short ammo supply…
Madonna recently gave an interview where she revealed that she was raped at knife point on trip to NYC when she was 15. Perhaps that is why she hasn’t jumped on the gun control bandwagon. In a recent interview on Good Morning America she declared “guns don’t kill people, people kill people.” I would not be surprised if the Material Girl was found to be packing heat on occasion..
In our household, we won’t even tell our doctors that we own firearms. Not that such a question has ever been posed to us, here in Houston; but you never know. Our pre-arranged response to a doctor’s inquiry, during the Reign of Error that is Obamacare, will be that we don’t get involved in those types of political discussions and that this appointment is to address specific personal health objectives, not current controversies in public policy. If pressed, we’ll hasten the appointment, quietly and politely depart, then find a new doctor.
Nice piece. In light of our nations discussion on disarmament, I was left wondering about the last sentence.
Perhaps – have you made the right choice – for you? Recognizing that that that coice is perhaps not the right choice for another non-criminal citizen…
Here in South Carolina we have a decent supply of ammo, but its at scalper prices. Plenty of 7.62×39 and 7.62×51, but very little handgun ammo, other rifle calibers, and .22 is non-existent.
Tons of ammo in ever caliber most places, prices still high for good defensive ammo even when you buy in bulk. I have tons of ammo ads up on MN armslist at good prices and it’s not moving that fast or often. Reloading is where it’s at people.
Its called being prepared and maybe being a gun enthusiast. Ive never not had at least 1000rnds of any caliber I have a gun for and typically 5000rnds. Its all these people with their thumbs up their well you know and then theres all the folks who voted for obama or could not bring themselves to vote for the billionaire with car elevator and then they went crazy when obama and company started talking about more gun control, made a run on anything that looked like a gun and any ammo that would go bang. The past 9 months of insanity are because of people like the authors friends. Damn if I would have given or sold them any ammo. And as to the authors question, I have never relied on or bought ammo locally in any significant quantity. I really could care less whether wally world has any ammo or not for joe 6 pack who voted for obama and was not ready for what happened because of it.
I was in the Oklahoma City Bass Pro this afternoon (Sunday) to pick up a new hunting coat. I checked out the gun section just to see what was in stock. Lots of the common and less common big game calibers (.243, .270, .308, -06, etc) although the lower end brands were in shorter supply than the premium offerings. Plenty of super duper $2.50 a round .308, much less of the plain Jane Federal or Remington dollar a round stuff. I saw lots of .223/5.56 but the rock bottom price for reasonably decent brass case loads was about .50 a round. There was lots of 12 and 20 gauge bird loads and enough buckshot and slugs to do a good shotgun qual course.
.45 and .40 pistol ammunition was available in ball and how point.9mm was a bit short and .38/.357 was tight.
Over in the reloading department I saw no .45 ball and no .38 bullets except for two hundred round boxes of 125 grain hollow points.
There was no .22 ammunition of any sort.
Bass Pro prices have always been pretty high. By the way I found my coat on sale and used my Discover cash back which has a 10% discount in addition to the sale price.
Academy Sports – the other big box sporting goods store in the OKC area (we won’t even talk about Dicks) – has a fairly good supply of almost everything except .22s. They’re getting about .50 a round for Federal brown box 5.56 with no purchase restriction. I have found a few 100 rd boxes of Winchester .22 at Academy if I get there early on Monday morning. That’s a little rough for a guy who is still working for a living.
Wally World has plenty of 12 gauge bird loads and some center fire rifle ammunition. No .22. The retired guys get it all at 0600 on Tuesdays and then try to sell it at the next gun show.
I’m reloading most of my pistol ammunition. I can find powder, primers and usually bullets as long as I’m not hung up on a particular brand.
Ive been looking at all sorts of ccw’s for months because I plan on buying my first since i just recently turned 21. I thought I was ready to buckle down with the xdm sub but then i was informed that a professional gun owner had his trigger snag his holster and so when he placed his hand on the grip safety to draw it went bang. so long story short im going to shoot this gun tomorrow and if everything goes well ill be leaving with a receipt 🙂 thanks for the info guys!
Anyone that I don’t know who jumps in my car is gonna get a ride to the morgue.
I’m on my phone so I cant see the flash hider, so all I can tell is it seems to be an M16A1 or A2 with A1 handguards
Just looked it up on the Brady campaign website. Definitely an AK-47
OMG – this could be an OPSEC case study for what NOT to do. With what was in just that story there are so many scenarios that could be run against her – none of them good.
1. I’m not very willing to shoot someone over a car, particularly if they’re non violent, thus it’s bail out and call the cops while retreating from the scene. The exception is there are often more guns in my car and I can’t surrender those . . . whole different scenario. I’m not macho enough o fight over a car but then I’m not letting someone tool up after a move like that either.
2. Tell him to get lost and keep an eye on him, at this point removing seat belt and ensuring doors are locked and all other windows are up is a must. I don’t care if it’s rude, that’s life.
3. Anyone approaching on an intercept course should have your undivided attention, change course. If they track to continue intercept I’d move my hand to my gun and my gun side away from them with a strong suspicion we’re very close to an altercation. If it obvious I’m trying to avoid someone with clear movement and they continue to track for intercept I’m likely to stop and confront verbally before we’re in grabbing range. I might end up looking nuts, but it’s better than being tackled.
4. Drive away. Practice leaving enough distance between your vehicle and the one in front to ensure you can steer around it. Wheels and asphalt as they say, you need to see a little of both to be sure you have enough room to go around. If going around isn’t possible begin to consider using the vehicle as a weapon or else drawing without brandishing. This could be a verbal altercation but it has good potentiality to become a fight.
5. Draw, focus weapon on door from behind cover while telling the ‘visitor’ to go away. Call police and maintain posture until police make contact or it is clear that the suspect has moved along.
Interesting exercise.
Nashville TN is GTG, LGS, Wallyworld, and Academy Sports have just about everything. Except .22lr.
Central IN: Rifle calibers of all kinds are back in wallmart, but handgun ammo there is still hit-or-miss. One day you walk in and they might have some .40, another day 9mm, then .45 next week, etc. Gander Mountain, however, has gobs of .45 and 9mm in the blazer brass 200 round .45 packs and 350 round 9mm packs. All other calibers you can get at Gander, but not at wallmart prices.
Fortunately I bought my .22 model 60 right around when freedom group was taking over, must be with mine the old crew was still doing things the right way. I have a friend has two marlin 30-30’s one was his as a kid the other a fairly recent yard sale purchase for his son. Unfortunately the more recent rifle has a lot of feeding and extracting problems, no wonder it was cheap at a yard sale.
Magpul STR stock, High Standard mil-spec buffer tube, Spike’s Tactical tungsten powder buffer, Magpul Ambidextrous sling mount, Bushmaster upper and lower receiver with stock trigger (had a trigger job done on it), Magpul B.A.D. lever, Magpul MOE grip, Daniel Defense Omega X mid-length rail, Daniel Defense 1-7 twist mid-length 18″ CHF barrel, Bravo Company mid-length gas tube, Midwest Industries upper height gas block, AAC Brakeout, Magpul polymer front and rear flip sights, Gas Buster charging handle with combat latch, Failzero Nickel Boron BCG, Magpul AFG, and finally Trijicon Reflex 1x42mm 4.5 MOA Dot Amber Reticle.
Good job Colorado, swing for third. The other states need to follow suite.
TO: All
RE: Five Most ‘Iconic’?
• M1911 .45 cal ACP
• BAR
• Thompson Sub-Machine Gun
• M-16
• AK-47
Next question?
Regards,
Chuck(le)