It started with the Obama administration. It continues today. I can't find any .22 or 12 gauge ammo (other than light bird loads) anywhere. I've heard all the explanations as to why there is no ammo to be had, but really? I have several old .22 pistols that I have been plinking with for decades. Now they languish in the safe unused. I don't dare use the ammo I have squirreled away as there are no signs I can replace it anytime soon...if ever.
I can kind of understand the shortage on certain semi-auto ammunition. I share the concerns of many that an ammo ban would be more practical than banning guns already out there in the eyes of government. EVERYONE is hoarding ammunition. But Jesus Tap Dancing Christ, how much is enough? If you carry a revolver for self defense and only use it in self defense situations, a single 50 round box is a lifetime supply if you reload it every five years. Why would anyone need ten thousand rounds of .38 special??? How many firefights do you expect to survive?
But what about the .22s and 12 gauges? THEY are not coming for our squirrel and bird guns. But everyone is buying up all the supply as soon as it hits the shelves. The prices have doubled and doubled again. I had to bum buck shot from a neighbor to hunt with this year as there was none to be had anywhere at any price. This shows no sigh of abating as people continue to pay ridiculous prices. Do people actually believe that .22 ammunition is going to be the new coin of the realm? I just want to shoot empty cans in the back yard. This simple pleasure I have enjoyed my entire life is now gone. When will this madness end?
Perhaps it's due to the fact I live in Arkansas. We do seem to have a surplus of crazy, paranoid, stupid people here. And they're armed...
I don't even know where to begin. smh...
How much is enough? You want the short answer? There is never enough. Never. E. Nough. Ammo. Never.
Box of 50 rds a lifetime supply you say? I carry a revolver and I shoot
much more than that. People who load a gun for self defense and then never train (I said
train not "practice") are doing themselves and those they pretend to protect a great disservice.
Why would anyone need 10k rounds of ammo?
Why does anyone need
any ammo? That's like asking why does anyone
need any firearm. Why does anyone
need the 2nd amendment?
THEY are not coming for our squirrel and bird guns
...YET. What do you think will happen once they get the AR15s? Why do you think people who don't even own AR15s are (or at least should be) fighting for them? As goes the AR, so goes the hand gun and, eventually, so goes the squirrel gun.
Do people actually believe that .22 ammunition is going to be the new coin of the realm?
Yes, actually, there are people who
do believe that. Go read a book titled
One Second After.
Perhaps it's due to the fact I live in Arkansas. We do seem to have a surplus of crazy, paranoid, stupid people here. And they're armed...
You should submit that comment to any number of anti-gun media outlets; it would fit better there. But then, I guess I'm just a deplorable desperate clinger because I dare to own a firearm. Shame on me. (There goes my social credit score, I guess.)
The bottom line here is that you, like me, and others, failed to be prepared. I thought I was doing good buying a box or two when it was on sale, when I should have been buying a case or two (or ten for that matter). But I don't blame others who
did prepare for my lack of foresight and planning, and neither should you. The only person to blame for my not having enough ammo is me, and it's not my fault you don't have enough ammo.