Thoughts on ammo shortages

[NewLiberty]

I see all of the above instances. My only complaint are to those who are awesome to excersize their 2nd amendment rights, but keep the loaded firearm irresponsibly secured at home and never practice with it... As a reloader I have taught my neighbors how to, and share equipment and experience to assist. Usually it's to help develop a hunting round, then they'll be back next year when out of ammo.

I'm looking for time to cast bullets, too busy in the garden but winter makes a lead pot sound really nice...

-Mac

keep the loaded firearm irresponsibly secured at home

Nothing personal here. Define please? I figure a unloaded gun or a gun locked in a safe is pretty near useless. I raised 4 kids with loaded guns all over the house withe zero issues.
Don't tell me what to do with my guns in my own house.

 

[joshb]

I think he's referring to those that keep their loaded gun in the nightstand drawer or the shotgun in the bedroom closet and tell the kids"No, don't touch" and trust them not to. I also have shot with a few Police Officers that only do minimal training and can't hit the broadside of the barn with their filthy handgun. I have a friend that just got his first handgun. Shot it once and wants to get his CC permit. I'm trying to train him, but he's a bit of a bumbler. Office type, not mechanically inclined. Worries me. Right now, I'm telling him to wait and practice.

 

[NewLiberty]

I apologized to mac, I was way out of line. :-[

 

[mac86951]

I apologized to mac, I was way out of line. :-[

And I was off topic, sorry to OP. Question for ammo shortages, how many preppers have proper long term storage set-up?

-Mac

 

[NewLiberty]

I apologized to mac, I was way out of line. :-[

And I was off topic, sorry to OP. Question for ammo shortages, how many preppers have proper long term storage set-up?

-Mac

We should start a new thread about preppers and the way many of them go about it. :

 

[Tanukikun]

Yeah, I'm still working of a case of .22LR I bought maybe 25 years ago and one of my shooting buddies got a chuckle over the TG&Y* price tag on one of my boxes of .22 ammo. When the panic was on, two years ago(?), I carted several thousand brass .223 & .308 cases to a gun show and sold them for what I considered an outlandish price, until I noticed most of the vendors were asking double. At least I got them out of my shop and could get access to my loading bench again. The only times I've bought factory ammo in the last 10 years are when I invite acquaintances to the range to shoot. Only family shoots my reloads.

*TG&Y stores went out of business in 1986.

TG&Y! I worked there as a stock clerk in high school back in the early 1980s. Talk about a blast from the past.

 

[cmysix]

every gun I own 1000+ rounds