A special Thank You to all the ammo hoarders out there

Would you rather us not buy any ammo, and let anyone smuggle their drugs and people across the border? Im sure we are not buying anymore than we usually do.

 

The issue isn't normal ammo purchases, it is a possible and strangely timed spike in orders that far outpaces justifiable usage. Whether or not the Drug War catastrophe should be funded is an entirely different topic. What I've read is we used something like 5ish million rounds of ammo per month in Iraq. If we have enough smugglers to need not only 5 million a month, but a billion + we have much bigger issues to worry about.

 

Don't know if the feds need the 2.1 billion per month but you bring up a good point.

 

Its not 2 billon per month. 2 billion is a couple accumulated orders. I would be interested to see ammo orders the military has been placing as a comparison. I don't see any justifiable reason for DHS to have ammo requirements even distantly approaching what our military would need or uses. There's an exceptionally worrying disconnect between what arms DHS has and is buying and what arms they think the citizenry should be allowed to even look at.

 

They are selling to the Mexicans.

 

lol! I wouldn't put it past them at this point.

 

Well, after the fast and furious scandal... They know who pays the best for it.

 

were at the bottom of the food chain. maybe if the feds will slow down on purchasing us little fish might be able to once again be able to find ammo to enjoy our hobby. i really miss being able to go to the range and having to ration my ammo. i probably shoot a tenth of what i used to.

 

That and for this panic to calm down. I have cut way back too. Gets so insanely old not being able to even find .22lr. I'm all for whoever wants to and is responsible enough to own firearms and ammo, but I wonder how many of these people panic stockpiling will ever even shoot what they buy. Most of it will probably just sit in some closet or basement for the next couple decades before it gets tossed...

 

You guys just need to shoot off caliber guns. Stuff like 7mm and 243 for your rifles and 10mm hand gun stuff. I can but that amo all day long.

 

X2 on what you said. I'm just hoping in the next couple of years these panic buying people will need to pay off their bills and when they realize that ammo and "assault weapons" aren't going away anytime soon they will try and sell em off and we will be able to buy all their stuff for cheap

 

Are those full?

you lucky bastard if they are.....

that is what I am hoping for.

and I don't hoard my ammo.....I have less than 5000 rounds of .22 and less than 1000 of 17 hmr (all I really shoot anymore....). I have been buying the 22 ammo whenever i see it so that I can shoot whenever I want to. If I see 22 ammo I will buy it even if I don't plan on shooting that week, because the next week it might be gone when i want to go shooting.

 

You are welcome sir!! We, here in california, love hoarding our ammo! I can't wait for the rest of you in the country to enjoy all the gun laws we get to deal with here. It seems to be coming your way soon.

 

Not in Texas

 

Hey gents I got a call from my buddy who works in the ammo industry we are looking at a minium of 9 to 11 months before all the manufactures are back on track just so yall know as for me I got 7000 rnds of each caliber .22, 5.56, .357, .22 mag, .308, and last but not least .45

 

oh shit, I completely forgot that you get into intense fucking firefights every time you row your boat out to catch drug peddlers...

http://www.humanevents.com/2013/02/...d-with-enough-ammo-for-24-year-long-iraq-war/

 

I am hoarding my ammo, over the last 10 years I have been buying here and there and as an example I have more than enough in 5.45,5.56,7.62,.22, and 9mm. You guys have had time to prepare, maybe next time you guys will learn. I learned in '94.

 

The DHS (AKA SOF mo fo's) is y my ammo cost is high, I still have one bedroom thats not full yet