You know ammo is scarce when...

Haha wow. It's smart right now though, give someone a 15-30 day loan at just under the normal price of the ammo, chances are you'll be able to get a decent amount more than it's normally worth. Past 30 days you're getting risky though.

I wonder how the loan works? Get one box you have to bring back two?

Heck we Americans have sucked up so many firearms and so much ammo that in Canada it's hard to find even Cheap Chinese stuff. Literally we are buying so many firearms and related items that outside of the US China who is a major international arms merchant cannot pick up the slack.

...when you start taking your guns out of the safe to put your ammo in.

...when the ammo in your magazine is worth more than the gun it's in.

...when you develop a flinch each time you pull the trigger and it's not from the recoil!

.....You take the day off from work and collect brass at the range and make much more selling it later than you would have had you worked.

That's pretty funny. Sounds like SHTF stuff. How about some seeds?

When you see sign wavers standing roadside holding banners that read "We Buy Ammo.."

When you yourself are caught roadside holding a sign that says you'll work for ammo..

I suppose the Gold and Silver Buyers/Scammers will be advertising now, "We Buy Ammo!"

...when every 10th thread in General Discussions is someone asking if you are a hoarder or can find ammo?

Brass, gas or grass.....

Nobody rides free!

Gregaw said:

...when you start taking your guns out of the safe to put your ammo in.

...when the ammo in your magazine is worth more than the gun it's in.

...when you develop a flinch each time you pull the trigger and it's not from the recoil!

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NOW THAT'S FUNNY, I don't care who you are!

When you see sign wavers standing roadside holding banners that read "We Buy Ammo.."

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saw 1 in houston the other day, was driving so couldn't take a picture

When you are a bit reluctant to start into your 2,000 rd. reserve stash of 7.62x39, or even the 2,000 rds. of .22, or...

Those who list on local Armslist hope that they can all sell for a high ("normal"?) price.

Gregaw said:

...when you start taking your guns out of the safe to put your ammo in.

...when the ammo in your magazine is worth more than the gun it's in.

...when you develop a flinch each time you pull the trigger and it's not from the recoil!

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Those are great! (and I'm stealing them!)

When you can click "New Posts" all night long and there's ALWAYS a thread on the first page where somebody's whining about the scarcity of ammo.

...when retailers actually are considering blanks as ammo.

Gregaw said:

...when you start taking your guns out of the safe to put your ammo in.

...when the ammo in your magazine is worth more than the gun it's in.

...when you develop a flinch each time you pull the trigger and it's not from the recoil!

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I get that flinch when I open a box of ammo.

I saw this the other day on the side of the road.

.....when you find a way to reload unreloadable steel cases.

.....when .22 Shotshells are routinely sold out.

.....when you're thinking about adding a pellet rifle to your collection.

.....because all the black powder guns are sold out.

.....when you buy ammo in calibers you don't own.

.....when you dig your hands into your 1000 rds of shiny new 9mm ammo and as the rounds trickle thru your fingers, you laugh like Vincent Price on crack ....over and over.....

......when your gorgeous, sexy wife wearing a see-thru nightie says, "Why play with your ammo when you can come to bed and play with me?"....and you have to really, really think about it.

rondog said:

I suppose the Gold and Silver Buyers/Scammers will be advertising now, "We Buy Ammo!"

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Already doing it...



http://newsok.com/oklahoma-city-business-offering-cash-for-bullets-amid-gun-craze/article/3757153


In a backroom of a coin and gold shop in Oklahoma City, thousands of bullets, in various sizes, containers and boxes, cover a table.

Chelsey Davis said he's buying most kinds of ammunition, so long as it's been stored properly and is still usable. He's been doing it for about a week.

“The first three days we purchased 10,000 rounds, which was a couple thousand dollars spent,” Davis said. “These are people that had them in the garage, in the closet … they either no longer had the guns or no longer had use for them.”

Ammunition is becoming so hard to get in the Oklahoma City area — and elsewhere across the nation — that Davis' coin and gold shop is now in the “Cash for Bullets” business.

--When it takes multiple trips to the plasma donation center just to buy one box of .45

--when you start waking up at 2am just to see if gunbot.net has refreshed.

--when your guns feel strange in your hands because its been so long since you could actually afford to shoot them.

--when you start researching which yard sale route might have the highest likelihood of widows trying to get rid of their deceased hubby's long, lost cache.

When after shooting at the range you get a shovel and dig out the slugs to recast them!

Note: Alvin York did that very thing before WWI.

Deaf

...when your net worth drops by more than 10% on during one range trip.

...when "ammunition" has its own page in your will.

...when convicts start smuggling weapons to sell OUT of prison.

... when you ask the clerk at Academy about .22 ammo and he tries desperately to sell you ratshot.