Guns and Ammo Selling Out Across the Country
November 6th, 2008
Obama’s election, and his promise to reinstate the assault weapons ban have people panicking a bit. According to this article, stores and distributors are starting to get low on their stock of semi-auto sport guns, magazines, and ammo. Any weapon that is semi-auto and has a capacity greater than 10 rounds is very popular right now, and is a potential victim to be banned.
Gun bloggers are not exempt from the buying frenzy by any means. Uncle let’s us know about Jay G’s potential black rifle purchase. There are dozens of posts on blogs and forums asking, “What should I buy before Obambi takes away our rights?!”. All these people are correct to buy what they want now. There is no telling when the ban will be reinstated, what it will contain, and there likely will not be a sunset provision this time.
The arguments against such a ban are for another post, or series of posts, but it is sufficient to sum the topic up with, “They don’t work.” This is a proven fact. I have been contemplating this for several months now. About a month or so ago an order was placed for twenty AR magazines. Today, I ordered half a case of ammo from Natchez.
We have discussed this in the past, and the wife agrees that we will need to make some more purchases before the end of the year. An AK variant of some type is on the list, along with mags and ammo for it.
The five hundred rounds of 5.56 that will be arriving are enough. Components to load several thousand more rounds will be purchased after the new year.
Hopefully we are all wrong about this, but it is better to prepare now, than to wish you had later.
Categories: Freedom, Guns, Politics | Tags: AR-15, AWB, civil rights, obama, RKBA, semi-auto, socialist stupidity
At least Guns And Guts isn’t selling out.
I was re-reading some of Boston’s Gun Bible (updated version) just the other night and I came across his chapter on the AK74.
Previously, he’d concluded that the 7.62 guns he’d tried were all garbage, and not worth expending any time nor money on fixing nor accurizing. He changed his mind after firing a 5.45 chambered Romanian gun (this is what I have) and getting some really good results. He kept it and added some other goodies and likes to put it in the hands of students who are learning the craft. He also recommended that getting one (preferably one that has proven to be accurate) in .223 with lots of extra mags (they are a dedicated mag, but Bulgarian imports of significant number do exist) was crucial.
That bit made LOTS of sense to me, as I’m forced to deal with imported ammo as my only source. While supplies do sometimes get lean for .223/5.56, it’s obviously a domestic round, and will always be available to some degree, even if only in the expensive commercial stuff.
Just a thought, if you are going that route, as you stated.
Good luck.
I have considered a 5.45 before and will look into it further now that you say that.
Stockpile while you can!