Anyone Else Stocking Up Supplies

[Major Matt Lewis]

In lieu of a change in political winds?

No political rants here please.  Just want to know if I am the only one investing in EBR's (Evil Black Rifles) ammo for aforementioned EBR and reloading components? 

Wife isn't too happy about the expendatures, but my gun safe is worth more than many's 401K and the political landscape says the investments may be wise at this point...

It took a week for one of my gun dealers to locate an M4 style rifle in 6.8 SPC.  I wanted something legal to hunt with.  DMPS has more than a 10 month back order on .243's.  Armalite and Rock River supplies were exhausted and I had to go with a Bushmaster.  I did consider a Remington R-25 at Cabela's last night, but that is in  "Ban" configuration and had a mossy oak camo pattern all over it.  Nice rifle though.  I will next be purchasing some bulk lead rounds in fear of a requirement that all rounds have serial numbers.  Primers too.

Over all, I don't see Cowboy rifles being on the bubble unless they mess around with the magazine capacity.  I think the 1860 Henry is illegal in Illinois because it holds 12.  Glad I already got one

[Bull Schmitt]

I'm taking inventory of reloading supplies. As they say "Be Prepared".

[Dusty Tagalon]

My 1860 will shoot 16, I have the lifter from Ariondack Jack. On Saturday I will be picking up an 1895, maft in 1899.

Dusty

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[Pitspitr]

I've got a pretty good supply, though I do need a few more primers and a few more pounds of powder.


Personally, I'm hoping that the liberal media is telling us what a big lead Hussien Obama has to try to get some folks to jump on the band wagon.....but I'm not counting on it.

[Silver Creek Slim]

I'm always stocking up no matter what direction the winds are blowing. 

Slim

[Texas Lawdog]

As sthe Boy Scouts Motto:  BE PREPARED!

[kurt250]

good to see that some people are using there heads. the cowboy guns and holy black stuff arn't on the commie hit list. not yet anyway. but they will be. if anyone is dumb enough to think they will leave b.p. shooters alone they should be ready for what they get. these people HATE GUNS. they don.t care if there cowboy, flint lock, or assault weapons. they hate them all and they hate the people who own them.stock up on everything, regester nothing. keep your mouth shut on what you have and who you know. now for the tough part, we wait. we watch and work to dirve the commie liberal scum out of office. remember a simple rule when it comes to liberal or democrats- you can always tell when there lieing, there lips move. kurt250

[Trailrider]

Why would anyone want to stock up?  I might if there was a blizzard forecast, lay in a supply of chunky canned soup.  Is there something going to happen in the next week or so that should concern me...or all of us?  Like an election or something?  BTW, has anyone tried out those NEW Ruger Mini-14/5 with the heavier barrel and the M-1 Garand/Carbine-type sights (with the ears on either side of the front blade)?  Would it be more practicable in 5.56 or the Mini-30 in 7.63 x 39?  I mean all things considered.  With my back problems lately, I don't know if I can stand the recoil of...never mind!

[Major Matt Lewis]

Kind of hoping for a ban so I can turn a profit on some merchandise...In the big picture I don't want a ban but I do like profits and I am betting that the ban will come in the form of a crime bill.  Outlawing certain rifles, magazine capacities and mucking up ammo with taxes or requiring serial numbers driving the cost thru the roof.

With the Supreme Court affirming the 2d Amendment as an individual right, I don't see a straight up assualt on the ammendment, but they will try to nibble away at it.  Might try to do what they did in France and Spain and outlaw Military Calibers. 

I have a buddy that thinks there may be civil unrest, but I don't think so.  I am looking at this as purely turning a profit.  Worse case scenario, I am stuck with a couple of rifles extra rifles some ammo and components for Cowboy loads anyway.  I think all we have to do is look at what the California state legislature has tried to pass to see where they are trying to take things across the nation.

[swordboy]

well kiss .50 .308 7x62 .223 and 9mm bye bye and thats just for starters

[River City John]

I stocked up on Halloween candy.

There is no reason to worry about their planning to enact any more laws. Laws, they're not the issue.
(notice how I've sneaked in a quick lesson in the correct usage of 'there', 'their', and 'they're' )
 
Heck, the poor economy coupled with cost increases on all the components are going to price shooting sports out of reach for many.
Then all we'll have to legitimately gripe about is Major Matt gouging us for his black market prices.

[Major Matt Lewis]

John,

I prefer to think of myself as a visonary....

[Steel Horse Bailey]

I'm not buying for anyone but me ...

And I wouldn't consider making much of a profit - just for profit's sake.

[kurt250]

well major, i remember when there were a lot of gun dealers who were all in favor of the 1968 gun control act. they thought that it would increase there profits by having to have a ffl. of corse the gun control jerks told them that it would be good for there profits and of would protect the children.i wounder how they feel now.if you think you can make a deal with these pices of trash, you are going to be in for a very unplesant suprise. they are looking to someone like you to give them what they really want. a TOTAL BAN ON ALL FIREARMS. my mother was a founding member of handgun contrl inc. i know that is what they want.if you want to see how it will be done, just look into that mirror the next time you shave. thats what the idot who will give away our rights looks like. kurt250

[Major Matt Lewis]

OK,

I am taking off my profiteerer hat and putting on my moderator's hat for a few minutes.  It has been reported to me by two individuals that this post was getting a little hateful with the name calling and such.  We here in the barracks tend to play very nicely with each other.  Regardless of opinion, political stance or whether we are left or right handed....we even don't discriminate between black powder and smokeless.  So, the name calling stops.  If we can't play nice, this thread disappears and I ask the Marshal to step in and lay down some frontier justice.  If there are any questions, please let me know off line. 

To the folks who reported this post to me 6 hours ago, I do apologize for the delay as my 6 year old daughter had me out accompanying her on the sale of Girl Scout Cookies today and I could not get a good feel of what was going on here on my mobile phone. 

So, no more names and let's try to keep the hate out of the posts.

[Charles Isaac]

We have hurricanes here so I always have a supply of extra food, a generator, chainsaw, gasoline and a full propane tank.


Back during the dark days of '94 and the first "assault weapons" ban, I bought a second all GI parts M1A for a spare, seeing how it is my favorite "modern" rifle. Paid double what I paid in '87 for my first one.

[Dr. Bob]

Trailrider,

If the recoil bothers you, get one of them nice 90 mm recoilless rifles!!

[Texas Lawdog]

Dr. Bob, Have you ever carried one of those 90mm RR around? I was in a Weapons Platoon for a while. WE had 2 of them. I am a big guy, so I got to care it around on my shoulder. That thing was heavy.

[Dr. Bob]

TLD,

Yep, I  was aware that it is a heave toy to tote!   But, the problem was recoil.   I'm not big enough to tote one very far.  Ya can't do concealed carry with it either!

[Texas Lawdog]

You just had to remember not to stand behind it because of the backblast. During our inital training, they set a 105 ammo crate behind it and fired the weapon. The crate exploded and caught fire at the same time.  We had some of the old CJ5 jeeps with the 106mm RR mounted on them. They were worse about the backblast. Those old jeeps would go up and down and forward and backwards all at the same time when we would fire it.