Probably not anytime soon...I think people out here feel good about acting on their healthy mistrust of our government. There isnt a lot your can do for instant gratification when it comes to hating what our government has become....waiting for the next election gets old. Buying 3000 rounds of .223 makes people feel good....and it has residual feel good effects also....you feel good every time you look at it in the cabinets by the reloading bench..... It will be a awhile before things slow down.....and for states like NY ect, slow isnt the word...the state government has all but criminalized us. So maybe we need to still be gearing up....
I just wish I could find some 22lr. I've got enough .223 at the moment, but you can't even sniff quality 22lr.
I also hope we all remember all these companies that have been gouging the prices. When things finally do level off, I know I won't be doing any business with them.
Look more closely and you'll see that even though it's not included in the bill, it will still be voted on, although it likely won't stand a chance. But it is actually a catch 22, her ban would have likely made the bill in its entirety unlikey to pass. Now with the AWB being voted on seperately, it makes it more reasonable for the new bill restricting only magazine capacities to pass. http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/storie...ME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2013-03-19-13-51-09
It's called free enterprise...capitalism...you know, the way of life most of us doing the hoarding want to preserve.
I personally wouldn't do business with a business that was gouging consumers. They have a reputation to hold and you go to businesses for a fair deal, thats why some businesses are refusing to hike up their prices. I could understand if their baseline costs were going up, but its not. Theyre no better than the people who sell water at high prices to the people are hurricanes when they actually need it to live. Pretty ****ty way of doing business taking advantage and exploiting scarcity, would you trust the prices they put on their items after this if you know that theyre going to gouge you like this? I sure wouldn't Id go to the businesses that kept the price the same because I know that their prices are fair and reasonable.
I have to disagree with you. There is a difference between a "luxury" product and a life need. In the current configuration of our society, guns, ammo, and parts are not vital for everyday life for 98.9999% of american citizens. Selling a box of 200 matches or a gallon of water for a 500% markup is gouging. Selling .223 for $21.95 for 20 RDS is capitalism. A store or online merchant has the right to price a product at whatever they want, just as you have a right to not buy it if you don't like the price. I, like you make statements with my wallet. Freedom is great, huh? :-) Sent from my Nexus 7 using Tapatalk 2
I'm not hoarding, I'm collecting. 22LR are mostly available here. 9M are hard to find. 308 are available. People are taking chairs off the shelf to sit in line at the Walmart at 7AM to get their quota. It's like a bread line during the depression. RC
You are correct, life need and luxury are different. And the dealers have every right to gouge consumers, but that is not a business I would have future dealings with.
I'm with you. Cheaper than dirt will never get a penny from me. The local shops to me either had no stock, or kept their prices the same. I will gladly shop there and will continue to try to find d deals online. Sent from my Nexus 7 using Tapatalk 2
just glad I have guns all chambered in "odd" sizes..I've been able to find them readily just about everywhere locally. I have a Walther PPS chambered in .40 S&W, a .44 mag, and then I have a browning A-bolt chambered in the .25 wssm, and then my Benelli R1 is chambered in the .300 WSM. Lastly my good ole SKS in 7.62 x 39mm I have no problem finding any of this locally. I was going to by an "AR" of some sort this spring, but with the lack of available NATO rounds, I've held off. I have heard from one of my good friends who works for a gun manuf. company that if I hold off buying Ammo until this summer, all sizes will be readily available by then.
You can call it whatever you want. The nice thing about free enterprise and capitalism is my right to not do business with that company. That's my right. I can say that I have found my ammo source for the future, it's a small mom and pop shop that refused to gouge their customers, and in doing so they gained a customer for life.
Should this be taken as a wake up call for those who think they will be able to fight the government someday? They can so effectively affect ammo supplies just by mere media rumors.
I think it kinda had the opposite effect of what the gov't wanted. Can't see why the gov't would push for mass buying of weapons and ammo when they are trying to limit the flow.
The buying backlash will probably continue awhile before supplies and prices return to normal. The government's approach will be more covert next time. Watch out for the "executive order," that probably will be the fan hitter.
I'm sure he has his Constitutional lawyers just pounding through past court rulings and Federal procedure doc's looking for a loophole somewhere he can throw the big EO at.
