Re: Just Have To Say This About The Ammo Shortage
[Re: CashisKing]
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Sooo....a 23 year old fellow with a wife and two kids....vs a 70 year old retiree.
The 23 year old should be stocked for life?
Of course not. Neither should he be retired or own his own 40 acre spread with a 4000 square foot house and a six car garage with three Ferraris. We all find our way in the world the best we can. The greatest kindness that we can offer to the 23 year-old is a Level Playing Field by which he can find his place. At 23... I lived on Taco Bell $0.59 bean burritos and ramen noodles for years. It all comes down to giving the 23 year-old a fair and honest foothold in the world from which he can climb. Good decisions and bad decisions occur, but in a world of fair opportunity the 23-year old will make it. In a world of unfair opportunity and manipulated markets, he will not. Hell yes! Level the playing field. Redistribute the Wealth Comrade!
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Re: Just Have To Say This About The Ammo Shortage
[Re: Snowwolfe]
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Way to many people feel entitled to buy what they want, when they want, at a price they want. The world doesnt work that way. Yes and No - I buy what I want, when I want (if available) and pay the price I want to pay. Call it entitlement or whatever, I still have that choice. I do agree I don't set the cost, the market does, but I do make the choice to buy or not. Economics is not hard.
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Re: Just Have To Say This About The Ammo Shortage
[Re: JamesJr]
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A young fella was working for me a few years ago as a roofing helper. Basically he was helping get felt and shingles on the roof... doing tearoff and layout work. I was paying him $15 an hour cash.
After the job was over I had no additional work for him at that time.
A month later he asked me if I had additional work.
I told him yes. I had $10 an hour work and $50 an hour work.
He said he would take the $50 an hour work.
I asked him if he had his own HVAC gauges.
He said he did not and did not know anything about HVAC.
Of course he didn't, nor was he willing to learn as a $10 an hour helper.
People grow of their own accord...
ON A LEVEL PLAYING FIELD
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Re: Just Have To Say This About The Ammo Shortage
[Re: Cheyenne]
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Give us this day our daily thread. But deliver us from evil gougers. Amen.
Lol.
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Re: Just Have To Say This About The Ammo Shortage
[Re: JamesJr]
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We had a club meeting last night. A local gun shop owner was there. He said Remington makes about One third of the ammo. The had been shut down because of the sale of the company. He thought now that there are up and running again it won’t be long until the is ammo again.
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Re: Just Have To Say This About The Ammo Shortage
[Re: Jim_Conrad]
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Sooo....a 23 year old fellow with a wife and two kids....vs a 70 year old retiree.
The 23 year old should be stocked for life?
Of course not. Neither should he be retired or own his own 40 acre spread with a 4000 square foot house and a six car garage with three Ferraris. We all find our way in the world the best we can. The greatest kindness that we can offer to the 23 year-old is a Level Playing Field by which he can find his place. At 23... I lived on Taco Bell $0.59 bean burritos and ramen noodles for years. It all comes down to giving the 23 year-old a fair and honest foothold in the world from which he can climb. Good decisions and bad decisions occur, but in a world of fair opportunity the 23-year old will make it. In a world of unfair opportunity and manipulated markets, he will not. Hell yes! Level the playing field. Redistribute the Wealth Comrade! Absolutely, you sell me $5 a pound beef quarters and I sell you a dollar around 9 mm. Free market Capitalism.
If you spend your life acting the victim, your award will always be a busted nose.
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Re: Just Have To Say This About The Ammo Shortage
[Re: slumlord]
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I can get what I need at gun shows and I’m supporting patriots Ne-Ne and Big Pop when I pay a $1 a pop for 9mm.
Dave
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Re: Just Have To Say This About The Ammo Shortage
[Re: The_Real_Hawkeye]
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When capitalist markets are manipulated by the wealthy that control the political system... the rich get richer daily.
... and the poor become enslaved.
We have a systemic problem far beyond the price of ammunition and reloading components.
Undeniably true. This IS the root cause.
No Ma'am. It's not my glasses that are crooked. It's my face. Slaves get what they need. Free men get what they want. GOA member disappointed NRA member 24HCF SEARCH
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Re: Just Have To Say This About The Ammo Shortage
[Re: JamesJr]
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There ought to be a sticky dedicated to cuhnts bragging about how much ammo or components they have.
Fugks sake
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Re: Just Have To Say This About The Ammo Shortage
[Re: JamesJr]
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Will prices go up when Derrick Chauvin is acquitted?
Or will they go down when he "didnt hang himself"?
Prepare now... crazy times are coming.
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Re: Just Have To Say This About The Ammo Shortage
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There ought to be a sticky dedicated to cuhnts bragging about how much ammo or components they have.
Fugks sake Damn, you are a rough customer. Wish we were neighbors.
If you spend your life acting the victim, your award will always be a busted nose.
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Re: Just Have To Say This About The Ammo Shortage
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There ought to be a sticky dedicated to cuhnts bragging about how much ammo or components they have.
Fugks sake I believe that it is a necessary avenue to establish superiority.
Not a real member - just an ordinary guy who appreciates being able to hang around and say something once in awhile.
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Not only a less than minimally educated person, but stupid and out of touch as well.
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Re: Just Have To Say This About The Ammo Shortage
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Jim_Conrad
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There ought to be a sticky dedicated to cuhnts bragging about how much ammo or components they have.
Fugks sake Damn, you are a rough customer. Wish we were neighbors. Not unless you are down with gratuitous male nudity and sword play.
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Re: Just Have To Say This About The Ammo Shortage
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There ought to be a sticky dedicated to cuhnts bragging about how much ammo or components they have.
Fugks sake Damn, you are a rough customer. Wish we were neighbors. Not unless you are down with gratuitous male nudity and sword play. Aka gettin clawed up lol
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Re: Just Have To Say This About The Ammo Shortage
[Re: Jim_Conrad]
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There ought to be a sticky dedicated to cuhnts bragging about how much ammo or components they have.
Fugks sake Damn, you are a rough customer. Wish we were neighbors. Not unless you are down with gratuitous male nudity... Sorry... I don't do that Oregon stuff.
If you spend your life acting the victim, your award will always be a busted nose.
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Re: Just Have To Say This About The Ammo Shortage
[Re: Jim_Conrad]
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The OP is the same guy that said he made it 100% on his own.
Right after he inherited a farm.
LOL
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Re: Just Have To Say This About The Ammo Shortage
[Re: Jim_Conrad]
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"Chrony capitalism", Spelling error or a Freudian slip? Actually this post summarizes the situation well. A new kind of shooter's economy, so to speak.
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Re: Just Have To Say This About The Ammo Shortage
[Re: CashisKing]
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Jim_Conrad
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There ought to be a sticky dedicated to cuhnts bragging about how much ammo or components they have.
Fugks sake Damn, you are a rough customer. Wish we were neighbors. Not unless you are down with gratuitous male nudity... Sorry... I don't do that Oregon stuff. Not quite....more of a William Wallace idea.
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Re: Just Have To Say This About The Ammo Shortage
[Re: JamesJr]
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Good words by James, just as good or better by Dwayne.
Been on both sides of the coin.
My kids are just gettin started in Life.
I’ve got enough to cover me the rest of my life, but am a mite worried whether I’ve enough for my 3 kids lives.
In fact if they shoot half as much as I did, I in fact do not.
So have had to improvise a fair bit. I bought several laser sights to hang off their stuff, so they can dry fire regularly, I hope, to gain the ability to squeeze trigger w as little dot sight movement as possible.
Granted it’s no where near as fun as making ragged one hole groups, watching cans fly or cheap soda & milk jugs full of water explode. 🤷🏻♂️
Got a bit irritated w the youngest as locally there was a good supply of 10mm available locally for awhile when everything else was gone. Since he, his sister & his mom all have 10mm pistols told him to buy $1000 worth & id pay him back.
Lil f’er goofed off & it didn’t happen, now it’s all gone too.
Strange times indeed.
I feel the same way about ammo as I do about money, I’ve got a fair amount of both & am grateful for such
But it doesn’t mean I don’t feel for the folks that feel like they don’t have enough of either.
The pandemic was hard on our biz, but hit at a time when we’re closer to the end of our careers than the beginning, so we will get by.
But if this would have happened in my 30’s or 40’s I’d likely be in jail for refusing to shut down.
As it is we’re open, but biz is still way off vs pre pandemic levels.
I’m not in position to look down my nose at anyone, never have been, never will be able to.
I'm pretty certain when we sing our anthem and mention the land of the free, the original intent didn't mean cell phones, food stamps and birth control.
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Re: Just Have To Say This About The Ammo Shortage
[Re: JamesJr]
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great sentiment but it's just more virtue signaling. It's about responsibility..........something that fewer and fewer people have anymore. call it what you will, it's still just more virtue signaling. Goody for you if your azz is totally covered for every caliber, every style, every gun, every whatever, for ever and in perpetuity. Chit happens to all of us. The puffed chest righteousness is as obnoxious as the bleating from the folks that don't even have a bottle of water in the house, and blame everything but themselves.
Sam......
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