Should I Buy .223/5.56 NOW, Given Biden's Ban on Winchester Selling to the Public?

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AlHunt said:
You need a thousand rounds for all your critical calibers for every year you expect to live.

If you don't have that much, then yes, you need to stock up.
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So if I'm 30 and expect to live to 80 (more or less), 50 more years, you're say'n I need 50,000 rounds for each critical caliber? Would put me (5.56/30-30/ 357mag/38 Special/9mm/ 22LR all critical to me) at 300,000 total rounds I should have in store. No disrespect, but I don't think so...
 
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The present adm has had the LC plant in it's sights for awhile. They tried to cut funding last year. No surprise here.

Reversing Biden's Cuts to Lake City Army Ammunition Plant | Congressman Sam Graves | Representing the 6th District of Missouri

Actually, I'm surprised that the plant produces ammo for Federal which is a major supplier of 5.56 NATO.

Many mil-spec 5.56 NATO loads exist, but Federal's production at the Lake City Army Ammunition plant enjoys the unique distinction of being made by the same defense contractor on the same production lines that supply the US military.
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The 5.56 ammo market could get tight.
 
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Well if you don't have that many rounds on hand, at least have the components to load your own.

Stockpiling components does not mean that you have to start reloading next week. It simply means that you could reload your own if/when the time comes. Hoarding components has become a better investment than most 401's or gold and silver.

I have 3 friends that have stockpiled components and none of them owns a press or dies. I have a pair of Dillon's that they load on when they need to. In the mean time, the prices continue to climb.
 
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The solution here is to be self sufficient by making your own. Same realization I had recently with 357 magnum. Since it's expensive and hard to find I decided to learn and then start making my own. Once I learn and buy a press I'm buying components in the largest bulk amount possible. If you rely on others for your ammo needs eventually you will be in trouble.

If the idea of loading your own scares you the other option would be to stockpile, just make sure it's stored properly.
 
The Preacher said:
So if I'm 30 and expect to live to 80 (more or less), 50 more years, you're say'n I need 50,000 rounds for each critical caliber? Would put me (5.56/30-30/ 357mag/38 Special/9mm/ 22LR all critical to me) at 300,000 total rounds I should have in store. No disrespect, but I don't think so...
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No disrespect taken, we all have to make our own decisions. If ammo dries up, how is a person going to shoot? Curtailing the ammo supply is definitely on the anti-gun agenda.

It gets easier as we age, but I think we all need to prepare for an ammo ban. It's also easier when a person can load their own Even today, we can still make most handgun ammo for $15 per hundred.
 
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It wouldn't be difficult to prohibit all ammunition imports (or pass a prohibitively high tariff on it). It has already been done for Russian and Chinese-manufactured ammunition. I strongly suspect that any concerted effort to reduce ammunition availability to private citizens would also include reloading in some form or fashion. It could be a "gun violence" tax on components and/or requiring a special government license, inspection, and recordkeeping and reporting for reloading at home. Maybe some even more draconian measures we haven't thought of yet. I seem to remember an effort of some years ago to require dealers in propellants to have prohibitively expensive "Security and Safety" measures in place. But it got no traction.
 
AlHunt said:
You need a thousand rounds for all your critical calibers for every year you expect to live.

If you don't have that much, then yes, you need to stock up.
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Silly. Not even ridiculous. Just silly. :rolleyes:

But, yes, if you have the cash and shoot a lot now is a good time to buy ammunition. I don't have any issue with "stockpiling", we used to call it hoarding :D, but be realistic about it.
 
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I don't think it's "silly" or "ridiculous" to stockpile some ammo. I'll bet those people that had little to none in early 2020 might have thought so until they wanted ammo and couldn't get it without paying through the nose.

One thing about ammo is that it doesn't go bad, so the thousands and thousands of rounds I have will be fine 30 years from now.
 
More unnecessary panic BS. You should have been stocking up on ammo years before all of this crazyness.

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If things fall apart anything more than you can easily transport will probably be used by someone else. Remember, the same pen that can ban 10 round magazines can make having more than X number of rounds illegal or require a permit.
 
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The article just said the M855 will be cut off. Didn't day anything about M193, when I shoot factory that's what I usually buy since it's cheaper than green tip.

The military doesn't use M193 anymore anyway so none of it is really "surplus". I was under the impression they had mostly switched to M855A1 anyway, but I'm not sure about that.
 
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