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[QUOTE=mrerick;229269]A massive industry movement is starting. I received this note today:

Cheaper Than Dirt Supports Citizens' 2nd Amendment Rights

Recently companies such as LaRue Tactical and Olympic Arms announced they will no longer sell prohibited items to government agencies and personnel in states denying civilians to own those same items. It has been and will continue to be Cheaper Than Dirt's policy not to sell prohibited items to government agencies and agents in states, counties, cities and municipalities that have enacted restrictive gun control laws against their citizens. We support and encourage other companies that share in this sentiment.

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Marc,

CTD is trying desperately hard to try and recover customers after they initially folded to Obama and announced that they would no longer be selling firearms.....yes, they had announced it on their website. There was a firestorm over this on at least a couple of forums that I attend, and a ton of emails to CTD to have their names removed from their catalog list, plus other statements. Within 4-5 days, CTD made a retraction on their website, and is NOW back in the firearms/ammo business. I don't think they expected the response that they received. A great number of customers are very unhappy with their "panic pricing" also.......My way of thinking on that is if you don't like the prices, don't buy it!!

Reloading supplies have also become scarce. Powder and primers are unavailable locally and almost all powder and primers on the Midway website are listed as "out-of-stock, no backorder." If this keeps up I will be forced to cut down on shooting in several months. The problem with hoarding is that it inspires more hoarding. When reloading supplies do become available I am likely to purchase larger quantities.
KFS

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Originally Posted by Karl (Post 229339)

The problem with hoarding is that it inspires more hoarding.

The funny thing about it is that some people are acting like the world is coming to an end, buying everything they see without thinking. I have seen several private ads for bulk pack .223 at about $1/ea, while the local store still has Hornady V-Max on the shelf for $22/20 rounds. This is actually only a few cents more than I paid a year ago, but it's still sitting there. It kind of made me laugh thinking about all the suckers paying through the nose for low end plinker ammo, when you can have the good stuff for about the same price.

Well, for the past 58 years I have always made it a point, if I purchased one box of ammo - actually to buy a second and put it aside. (I rotate stock.) So when times are tough (ie: 7 kids) I had ammo to shoot. There were certain times when because of political conditions, ammo and guns became hard or expensive to find. Some of these instances cold be predicted. I thought the Colorado theater thing would take off, but fortunately it did not. But it was evident that is was a matter of time before something hit a raw nerve. When it was evident that obama was going to win in 2012, I purchased some ammo. Foresight does help a lot. But I have no problem with the current dry spell.

Over the years I have seen the progression of gun control. Suffice it to say that when I was 15 years old, I rode my bike to the gun store and purchased a pistol, put is in the bike's basket and rode home. No parents, no police, nobody except the gun store owner and me. Two months later , I again rode the bike to the gun store and purchased a K98k, and since it had a sling, I put it across my bike and road home. Compare that to today.

As to the SHTF situations, face it - if you are in a populated area, your goose is cooked. I have a home in the country where I would be accepted since my wife is from there. But unless I am already there, I would not make it. As to get there I would have to get out of the present metro area, pass another on on the fringes and then there would be all those small towns.

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Originally Posted by ithacaartist (Post 229212)

I think the operative concept is stated a little further down: "...where the perceived importance of the hoarded items far exceeds their true value..." Animals do it by instinct. The hamster I had when I was in 6th grade would stash as much food as you cared to give her; however, the excess beyond that which was actually consumed, rotted in the stash beneath the litter in the cage and would be thrown out at each routine housekeeping I performed. A specific number for US and our ammo would be hard to pick. How much ammo would be necessary to serve our purposes, if ammo production were to stop entirely? I guess one could leave the excess to friends and family in his/her will...

On this front, 5 rounds of 20 gauge rifled slugs would keep me in venison for a year. A few shotshells for rabbits and squirrels, maybe, but then again a Hav-a-hart trap might suffice. Would I choose to stand off post-apocalyptic invaders/scavengers/looters--whether they are civilian or originate in whatever "legal" authorities remain, or are created? That would depend on a lot of things.

Perhaps a good gauge of "too much" in practical terms would be related to how much suffering or deprivation must be endured under the status quo in order to prepare for a scenario which may--or may not--happen. Maybe our family members are starved to support the behavior?

I've noticed that the doomsday preppers prepare for many different scenarios--EMPs that take out the power grid and all electronic/electrical devices; Tsunamis; economic collapse and the presumed chaos and civil unrest to follow; there was even one guy who thought the earth would flip around on its axis (a TOTAL fallacy! Polar shifts have occurred many times before, but it involves the magnetic fields of the earth, NOT the planet itself.). As with different religions, they can't all be right; but they could all be wrong. It, in fact, may turn out to be like packing up two tons of sand--just in case it were needed--and then finding out we had to travel across a desert.

If you've seen the Hoarders show on TV, and you have the fortitude necessary to do a reality check on yourself, then you know who you are!

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Originally Posted by Edward Tinker (Post 229249)

Its been very busy at gunshops since December and a number of discussions on assorted boards, not sure if on this board of this same subject.

And gun shows have been crazy for the last two months....

Should be interesting in how NGD does.

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Originally Posted by Karl (Post 229339)

Well, my grandmother who raised me for a number of years taught me that the early bird gets the worm. Then you have the more recent story of the ant and the grasshopper.

When I turned 15, I gave up my part time job and acquired another one which I would work 40 to 48 hour a week in addition to going to school. If I had not worked, I would not have been able to go to college. Worked the same hours during college.

Even later (70s) I rode with my brothers-in-law when they went down to Perry County (Ky.) to haul coal. Good money. It paid well. The only downside was that we had to cross UMW picket lines.

Now people expect everything to be given to them.