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For the last decade+ I've generally keep enough primers (and rimfire ammo, and reloading components) on hand to not worry whether they'll be insufficient to last my lifetime. Have been doing this since the first "shortage" during the Clinton administration. So guess I am a hoarder--or just prepared.

Have sold a few primers to local friends who apparently don't shoot enough to have noticed the shortages, so always expected to be able to buy 200-300 primers at the local store.

Anyone that didn’t see this when Clinton was President hasn’t a leg to stand on. Bitch and moan, call people names and whine because you didn’t notice. There was plenty of time and components coming into the shortage that didn’t have bearing on the shortage we see now.

If it was to start all over, the same people would be out of ammunition and components, looking at those who had the stuff as scalpers and hoarders.

I have a “worst hoarder I’ve ever seen” story that I don’t believe can be topped. Good friend of mine here stored his components at two locations. One in a shed (with no electricity) behind his house and the second at another location.

Over the Clinton and Obama scares, I asked him from time to time “Hey, if you see any 210M’s I’d love to latch on to some”. Not that he owed me any such favor, but he’d say something like “umm hmm” and that was it.

Last year the shed behind the house caught fire….unknown how it managed to do so. Total loss. Primers, bullets, powder, live ammo…you name it. Son was a firefighter on the scene and sent me a video of everything cooking off.

He had in excess of two hundred thousand 210M’s alone! Plus a like amount of small rifle primers and pistol primers! Plus powder and ammo popping off. Ever light an entire pack of firecrackers? It sounded just like that, only more intense, for thirty or so minutes.

Sheriff’s dept here is very pro 2A and prevented any media types from latching on to this story and taking the narrative in God knows what direction.

And you are happy why??? What a piece of crap you are

And you are happy why??? What a piece of crap you are

For the last decade+ I've generally keep enough primers (and rimfire ammo, and reloading components) on hand to not worry whether they'll be insufficient to last my lifetime. Have been doing this since the first "shortage" during the Clinton administration. So guess I am a hoarder--or just prepared.

Have sold a few primers to local friends who apparently don't shoot enough to have noticed the shortages, so always expected to be able to buy 200-300 primers at the local store.

Well there's nothing wrong or inaccurate about your statement some people that deal with age/income may not have been quite so fortunate and to be took advantage of by scalpers and such is absolutely b******* I am fortunate enough to pretty much be in the same boat as the above statement but I will never hesitate to absolutely destroy whenever possible such [bleep] of scalpers and hoarders that will never shoot what they have on hand.

To the non-prepared anyone who is prepared is a hoarder.

And you are happy why??? What a piece of crap you are

I own the exact same school of thought JB has on how much is enough and am so situated. Know a lot of fellow shooters who are still scrambling for necessities to keep shooting...mb