{"id":1732,"date":"2012-04-06T20:10:57","date_gmt":"2012-04-07T00:10:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/?p=1732"},"modified":"2012-04-06T20:10:57","modified_gmt":"2012-04-07T00:10:57","slug":"gun-and-ammo-shortage-coming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/gun-and-ammo-shortage-coming\/","title":{"rendered":"GUN AND AMMO SHORTAGE COMING?"},"content":{"rendered":"

We\u2019ve all heard that amusingly hypocritical line, \u201cLay in a big supply before the hoarders get it all!\u201d\u00a0 Indeed, we shooters all lived through that in 2008 and for a good time after.\u00a0 People who feared the Obama administration would make good on the new President\u2019s previously declared wishes to ban assault rifles bought up every AR15 and AK47 clone in sight, and ammo was so scarce people were waiting in line to buy the six measly boxes that WalMart allowed per customer.\u00a0 Some of those folks in line were gun dealers, who took the six boxes back to their own shops to sell for inflated prices.<\/p>\n

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Whether you call yourself a survivalist, a prepper, or simply self-reliant, it makes sense to \u201cbuy it cheap and stack it deep\u201d when it\u2019s something you need, like food or medicine.\u00a0 At least in terms of ammo, it\u2019s too late to \u201cbuy it cheap,\u201d but since I need a continuing supply of ammunition for training and match shooting, I\u2019m stacking it deep right now myself.\u00a0 The rumor mill whispers of coming shortages, due partly to the strongly-grounded perception that the Obama administration\u2019s anti-gun leanings will come out of the closet once he\u2019s re-elected. There are also certain other market factors.\u00a0 Foreign countries fearful of the second term President pulling US troops out of their countries are rumored to be ordering small arms ammo in large quantities from US manufacturers, who have a finite production capacity.<\/p>\n

Much has been made of Homeland Security\u2019s recent contract with ATK for 450 million rounds of Federal HST 180 grain hollow point ammo, caliber .40 Smith & Wesson.\u00a0 I don\u2019t see that as a harbinger of martial law and civil war as some do. Being in law enforcement myself, I\u2019ve seen the severe shortages that have plagued even police agencies in the last several years.\u00a0 The contract is for up to <\/em>all those millions of cartridges, and may mean nothing more malignant than that a huge government agency wants a contractual guarantee that they\u2019ll be able to get enough to train and qualify their people, even if their actual deliveries never come close to the top level to which that contract holds the manufacturer.<\/p>\n

If you\u2019re a reloader, stock up on components, particularly primers.\u00a0 Keep both components and loaded ammo in a cool, dry place.\u00a0 If nothing else, if inflation runs rampant and turns hundred dollar bills into toilet paper, ammo is always worthwhile for barter\u2026<\/p>\n

What\u2019s you folks\u2019 take on the situation?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We\u2019ve all heard that amusingly hypocritical line, \u201cLay in a big supply before the hoarders get it all!\u201d\u00a0 Indeed, we shooters all lived through that in 2008 and for a good time after.\u00a0 People who feared the Obama administration would make good on the new President\u2019s previously declared wishes to ban assault rifles bought up […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":6428,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,11],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1732","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ammunition","8":"category-preparedness"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1732\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}