Thursday, March 7, 2013

Ammo Shortage

Over the past few months we as a country have been seriously struggling to keep ammunition on the shelves. Shooting is somethings people do independently, as sport, they conceal, or defend. It is our constitutional right as Americans to be able to bear arms. But what do we do when there is no ammo to do so? Guns don't work without ammunition, they are basically fancy paper weights. I don't understand how things like this happen. Store after store, empty. Shelves empty.

My family is a shooting family to say the least, most of them carry and my first job was at a shooting range. Are you interested what the price is for a 100 round box of .22s is? 26 dollars at any gun shop, minimum. I want to point out that this is a 5 dollar box of ammunition, that people are fighting over. The last two months has been the hardest, if I show up at 4:30 in the morning for my 1 box of ammo limit, I am usually around the 6th or 8th person in line waiting for the doors to open. This line I am talking about runs outside of every Academy on truck day. This is the only time a person can buy ammunition for the actual cost, if you can find it somewhere else 5x the price. The man in the video is very correct, gun owners are doing to themselves. I have never in my life bought more than 2 boxes at a time, why should I have to suffer to get one just because someone bought 20 boxes. The companies are going to have a hard time keeping up with demand, and we as consumers will have to PAY for it.

http://www.digtriad.com/news/national/article/273202/175/Ammo-Flying-Off-Shelves-Due-To-Shortage
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  1. UnknownMarch 12, 2013 at 9:23 PM

    I agree there is no reason to buy 20 boxes of ammo at a time. This, I think is simply caused by speculation that the right to carry arms will eventually be taken away from us. The fact that the government is trying to do so should alarm any citizen. Big brother is going too far and is simply using this issue to see how far they can go before the public wakes up. The media also plays a big part in this frenzy to buy ammo as it portrays the policies that are up for vote as the government trying to take away our second amendment right. I believe they have the public in mind but to me it seems that the ones doing these terrible crimes aren’t law abiding citizens so what difference does it make which laws are passed if the criminals don’t abide by them anyway. I think the public needs to turn off the tv and think for themselves and maybe these frenzies will stop. The media is more to blame for starting this rather than the government. Let’s think for ourselves for once.

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