Ammunition Shortage will continue

[Beemermark]

I reload and had / have a healthy supply of components. I also have been to the range for over a year so, while I heard about it, I didn't realize how bad the shortage was until I sold a 9mm pistol to a friend and he stated he couldn't find any ammo. Anyway I didn't believe it so I started hunting locally and on the internet. Everything, and I mean everything, from .22 RF to 45-70 is sold out. Now I got a tough time believing that. I started looking for weird cartridges like the 44 Russian and 9x21mm round and all are sold out.

I am not a believer in conspiracies but come on, do you really believe that all the ammo in the US has bend sold out and the manufacturers can't make enough to keep up. I can maybe believe 45 acp, 9 mm, .223, .308 BUT EVERYTHING. Your friendly government has taken over the banks and car companies are you sure they're not dictating to the ammo companies??!

 

[Richard Simmons]

Originally posted by GatorFarmer:

Bush banned the "assault weapons" of foreign make back in '89. The ammo ban was later, and was initially based on the Norinco stuff being steel core. Olympic Arms came out with an AR pistol in 7.62x39mm which suddenly made that caliber verboten in terms of having a steel core since it was now a handgun round.

You are correct. Ammo importation was banned in 1994. Clinton took office 1/20/93

http://www.thegunzone.com/762x39.html


http://clintongunban.com/FactS...?i=80&a=Fact%20Sheet

"Armor-piercing ammunition." A 1986 law prohibited the manufacture or importation of "armor piercing ammunition," defined as "a projectile or projectile core which may be used in a handgun and which is constructed entirely (excluding the presence of traces of other substances) from one or a combination of tungsten alloys, steel, iron, brass, bronze, beryllium copper, or depleted uranium." The 1994 crime bill added to the definition, "a full jacketed projectile larger than .22 caliber designed and intended for use in a handgun and whose jacket has a weight of more than 25 percent of the total weight of the projectile."

 

[FennRx]

i picked up 500 rounds of 9mm, 300 .45acp and 150.380 in the past week.

i would have gotten more, but they limited me to so many boxes per day. and by the time i went back after shift change, it was all gone.

 

[Andy Griffith]

Originally posted by Richard Simmons:

Originally posted by GatorFarmer:

Bush banned the "assault weapons" of foreign make back in '89. The ammo ban was later, and was initially based on the Norinco stuff being steel core. Olympic Arms came out with an AR pistol in 7.62x39mm which suddenly made that caliber verboten in terms of having a steel core since it was now a handgun round.

You are correct. Ammo importation was banned in 1994. Clinton took office 1/20/93

http://www.thegunzone.com/762x39.html


http://clintongunban.com/FactS...?i=80&a=Fact%20Sheet

"Armor-piercing ammunition." A 1986 law prohibited the manufacture or importation of "armor piercing ammunition," defined as "a projectile or projectile core which may be used in a handgun and which is constructed entirely (excluding the presence of traces of other substances) from one or a combination of tungsten alloys, steel, iron, brass, bronze, beryllium copper, or depleted uranium." The 1994 crime bill added to the definition, "a full jacketed projectile larger than .22 caliber designed and intended for use in a handgun and whose jacket has a weight of more than 25 percent of the total weight of the projectile."

I have a question...

Why then, aren't the heavily constructed bullets in the .454" and .500" diameters made for heavy, thick skinned dangerous game- for instance Barnes and the "punch bullets" from Beartooth- prohibited?

I do know that Barnes quit making "Solids" for .429 diameter.

 

[wbraswell]

Panic ammo buying is just what the D-crats want. Then they can tell us that we need a law to ration ammo, so everyone who wants some can get it. Remember the Jimmy Carter gas shortage in the 70s? No Sunday gas, no premium. Maybe they will restrict ammo buying to 5 days a week. Here sir, your weekly ration, 2 bullets. No, sir, you don't get to pick what caliber. You get what we have the most of, and this week that just happens to be 8MM Lebel. Thank you, come again.

 

[flop-shank]

Originally posted by wbraswell:
Panic ammo buying is just what the D-crats want. Then they can tell us that we need a law to ration ammo, so everyone who wants some can get it. Remember the Jimmy Carter gas shortage in the 70s? No Sunday gas, no premium. Maybe they will restrict ammo buying to 5 days a week. Here sir, your weekly ration, 2 bullets. No, sir, you don't get to pick what caliber. You get what we have the most of, and this week that just happens to be 8MM Lebel. Thank you, come again.

Rationing ammo isn't what the democrats want. They want to ban it and disarm the people. What's happening now is exactly what they need to see. It shows them that restricting the RKBA is political suicide. They really are power hungry predators. Like all predators the only thing they respect are teeth and claws. Stockpiling arms and ammo puts "teeth and claws" in the hands of the people and will ensure that they remain free.

 

[Spotteddog]

YUP!
Great paragraph F/S!

 

[wbraswell]

flop-shank, you can't eat the whole steak in one bite. They aren't going to say they want to ban guns and ammo. They're just going to try to weed it out of our culture little by little. You know how it goes, we just want the little guns, we just want the big guns, we just want the ugly guns, we just want the guns that hold a lot of bullets, and on and on. They don't think that their cause is political suicide, they've been at it for decades. Kennedy, Feinstein, Schumer, and their leftist predecessors aren't intimidated by us, they have their sheeple. Stockpiling (collecting, accumating) weapons and ammo are some of the things that they point at and say "See, they're all potential Tim McVeighs." Guess I'll stop here, before it gets moved to the political section.

 

[flop-shank]

I don't disagree entirely. Stockpiling in the short term protects our rights for now. The short term is a piece of what it will take to protect our liberty for our children. Then the burden falls on them.