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Heck, I can't find a store in this county that has any bullets! I suppose I could swing a gun like a club, or throw it really hard, but shooting one is going to be difficult.
This isn't just the .243 caliber I'm shopping for, but all calibers - even the unpopular ones. Shotguns shells are plentiful, but no rifle or pistol bullets. Walmart has 40 feet of empty shelves where bullets used to live. The local "serious" gun store - the kind where true, toothless old gun nuts hang out to discuss their theories about revolution and mixed race marriages - has 7 boxes of ammo available, none of them useful. No one knows when more will be coming in, nor why the distributors have none to sell them. I checked a few online sources, and some claim to have stock, but that stuff's heavy and expensive to ship. And I have a suspicion that if I place an order, I'll get a confirmation telling me that they'll ship as soon as stock becomes available.
I even looked into reloading. I can order a reloading setup, but it might be 4 to 6 weeks before one ships. Bullets are backordered, though I can get brass immediately. Primers seem to be out of stock, for some reason, and I haven't found a source of smokeless powder anywhere. This is smelling like a conspiracy...
Will Rogers never met me.
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wizardzz wrote: (where there are no gun or ammo stores, btw).
But you have the motor car, right?
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and which of these[^] do you think is most likely to cause people to stock up on ammunition ?
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They look like sensible measures put forward by intelligent, mature people, to me. Not a childish knee-jerk in sight.
Ammo hoarding and the responses from pro-gun parties are the exact opposite.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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why, it's almost as if the NRA's constant hyperbolic fear-mongering is good for the bottom lines of its "corporate partners[^]".
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Lobbying works, obviously - influence follows the money, always. Even money stolen from working people to buy the votes of the non-productive. 
Will Rogers never met me.
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lobbying?
nah, the NRA just tells the rubes that the evil men are going to take away their toys, so STOCK UP NOW! and stock up they do.
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That could well be. But I wonder if the manufacturers are, instead, holding back production in the hope that they can jack the price up as the fear level rises. I would... 
Will Rogers never met me.
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Did, by any chance, the rabbits see you come home with your arsenal?
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Nope, there was no bunny home. 
Will Rogers never met me.
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