ExMachina
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The more each of us "stocks up" the more each of us contributes to the continued shortage.
And I don't see how stocking up is even useful--if the purpose is to buffer ourselves from the next shortage, then we're all guilty of contributing to the creation of a self-fulfilling prophecy. Stop buying crazy amounts and I predict the stocks will magically return to the shelves.
If the purpose of stocking up is instead to prepare for a "ban" of some sorts, then I also have to ask, why? If there's a real, honest-to-God ban none of us will not be doing much, if any shooting. Yeah, you will be prepared for the few shots that you may need to make to survive but most of the accumulated stores will never get used since high-volume ammo consumption will not be an option.
Overall, I am just pissed off. It seems that the worst enemies I have in my pursuit of the shooting sports are my fellow "shooters" who are in fact not shooting much of what supplies they are accumulating (I base this impression mostly on more recent range visits where the firing line has been much emptier than in years past). Simply put, there's a lot of hoarding being done, and it is resulting in a decrease in our ability to shoot. That decrease looks like it is proving more effective than any "Obama ban" that could have ever have been enacted.
EDIT: As to my "guideline" it's simple: hoard less, shoot more. The best way to keep a right is to exercise it.
And I don't see how stocking up is even useful--if the purpose is to buffer ourselves from the next shortage, then we're all guilty of contributing to the creation of a self-fulfilling prophecy. Stop buying crazy amounts and I predict the stocks will magically return to the shelves.
If the purpose of stocking up is instead to prepare for a "ban" of some sorts, then I also have to ask, why? If there's a real, honest-to-God ban none of us will not be doing much, if any shooting. Yeah, you will be prepared for the few shots that you may need to make to survive but most of the accumulated stores will never get used since high-volume ammo consumption will not be an option.
Overall, I am just pissed off. It seems that the worst enemies I have in my pursuit of the shooting sports are my fellow "shooters" who are in fact not shooting much of what supplies they are accumulating (I base this impression mostly on more recent range visits where the firing line has been much emptier than in years past). Simply put, there's a lot of hoarding being done, and it is resulting in a decrease in our ability to shoot. That decrease looks like it is proving more effective than any "Obama ban" that could have ever have been enacted.
EDIT: As to my "guideline" it's simple: hoard less, shoot more. The best way to keep a right is to exercise it.
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