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I would be quite surprised to find gun shop owners working a scam like that simply because they know that their customers tend to be pretty loyal. If those customers got wind of an owner working that kind of scam, that owner would be hard-pressed to hold those customers. Do you have any evidence to support your conspiracy theory, NWP?
Yours,
Issodhos

Goodness, these folks have found a way to make money on shortages of rimfire ammunition by NOT selling the stuff! 5 pages of the stuff! How do they do it? :-)
Yours,
Issodhos

Perhaps if reporters, newspapers, radio personalities and such would simply not report the contemplated legislation, and let the Dems "do da peoples business" behind closed doors and away from pesky scrutiny ...... ;-)

I have stopped in at the Co-op and Gander Mountain a couple of times since my last post and the .223 and .22 rimfire shortage continues -- and both, having been relatively cheap rounds to fire are now not so cheap (though with their lack of availability that becomes academic :-)).
Yours,
Issodhos

you of course meant rational people

unfortunately when these same folks listen to say Hannity, they don't care what kind of scam he is running .... because they are irrational

..., insecure, and very frightened of a changing world. It causes these folks a great deal of stress and anxiety and they just want someone to manage their fear for them. In the meantime, they'll simply hold onto their weapons as a security blanket.

hmmm ... i don;'t consider ammo cheap ... and really have to wonder why anyone would buy 1k rounds of any bullet ... even during an encounter during the zombie apocalypse everyone's shots added up don;t come to 1k ... if i need that much ammo then why limit myself to some POS semi auto klunker of any kind ... why not go with a minigun so i can use up that ammo

so what exactly is a "normal" ammo sale???

From my earlier response in this thread to Scoutgal:
Hope that helps, Pi. :-)
Yours,
Issodhos

Somehow I don't think that Democrats deserve any credit for panic demonstrated by the amygdalately-over-endowed. However, it would be righteous for the scurrilous firearms and bullet manufacturers and retailers to redistribute their ill-gotten gains to their enemies, thereby thwarting a socialist takeover. It would be of paramount importance to avoid, in any way, making their enemies into friends, as it is only by the existence of enemies (the more imaginary, the better) to bolster sales.

Pure Capitalism is such a labyrinthine knot, wot?

Yours, in howling sarcasm,
Loggus Trollius

If you like to shoot why would you not buy in bulk? How many rounds do you think someone shoots at the range? Well, to be honest, it varies and depends on many things. But if you shoot on a regular basis why would you not have plenty of ammunition?

Another factor is type of ammunition. I practice with FMJ because it is less expensive, but my defense loads are not FMJ (they vary depending on which gun). I require some of both. At the same time different loads perform differently in the same gun. That is part of the fun of shooting.

As NW alluded to early, if you just buy a box of ammunition and fire half the box and rarely, if ever, shoot again, you aren't doing yourself any favors. This of course means that from time to time a serious gun owner will run defensive loads through his guns to practice using that type of ammunition.

Not all manufactured ammunition feeds the same in semi-autos. Some ammo will fail to feed, for example. Depends on the gun, sometimes it's the magazine. If you shoot you find yourself with some partially used boxes of ammunition.

In addition, new technology in ammunition is often tempting. Yes, there is even Zombie ammo. I have a box laying around somewhere. I bought it just for fun.

I've already said a few things about full autos in a previous post. But, it doesn't hurt to repeat that shooting full auto can be fun depending on the gun. It isn't THAT much fun that you'd do it all the time. You'd also have to have deep pockets. Full auto is not what you want when you are looking for accuracy.