{"id":6397,"date":"2020-08-19T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-19T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/?p=6397"},"modified":"2020-08-17T19:06:34","modified_gmt":"2020-08-17T23:06:34","slug":"remember-buying-ammo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/remember-buying-ammo\/","title":{"rendered":"REMEMBER BUYING AMMO?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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September 2019
things change quickly.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

One reason I\ntell folks to stock up on ammo is the history of ammunition droughts \u2013 and\naccompanying steep increases in prices \u2013 in just the last 20 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2000:\nRemember Y2K?  The experts were telling\nus that we were going to be sent back to the Stone Age because the computers\nwere going to die when the clocked ticked into the first minute of the Year Two\nThousand.  Ammo \u2013 and bottled water \u2013\nbecame scarce.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2008: The\nelection of Barack Obama. I remember $20 bricks of .22 Long Rifle ammo selling\nfor $100 bucks, and scalpers waiting in line in the early morning hours at\nWalMart (which at least didn\u2019t jack up the price) hoping for an ammo delivery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2012: The\nre-election of President Obama, and the run on guns triggered by screams for\ngun confiscation after the Sandy Hook atrocity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2016: The\nimpending election of Hillary Clinton, who had promised to be the strictest\n\u201cgun control\u201d President evah! <\/em>(The\nday after she lost, I understood how the British must have felt when they received\nword that the storm had sunk the oncoming Spanish Armada.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And now,\n2020: First, a pandemic in which the media warned us that the cops would be out\nsick and we\u2019d be on our own. Then, the George Floyd riots in which some parts\nof some cities WERE on their own because the cops were so busy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019ve had to\nprovide home and personal defense ammunition to friends because they didn\u2019t have\nenough and fortunately, I was able to help. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Though I was\nsad that the pandemic shut down many training courses I wanted to take myself,\nand many matches I wanted to compete in, the one silver lining in that dark\ncloud was that I saved thousands of rounds of ammo that I wouldn\u2019t have been\nable to readily replace under current circumstances.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last\nSeptember when WalMart buckled to political correctness and stopped stocking\nhandgun ammo (and .223 and similar rifle rounds), I got the word late and only\ncaught some of the dregs of their then-current, deeply discounted stock.  Wish I\u2019d gotten that <\/em>notification sooner than I did.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I don\u2019t\nexpect ammunition to return to 2019 pricing and availability any time soon. But\nwhen it does become available, I\u2019ll stock up even more than in the past.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s part of\nthe whole self-reliance concept: \u201cWhen you can get it cheap, stack it deep.\u201d It\napplies to ammo as much as it does to toilet paper.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The more you have stockpiled, the better.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One reason I tell folks to stock up on ammo is the history of ammunition droughts \u2013 and accompanying steep increases in prices \u2013 in just the last 20 years. 2000: Remember Y2K?  The experts were telling us that we were going to be sent back to the Stone Age because the computers were going […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":6402,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6397","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uncategorized"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6397","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6397"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6397\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6406,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6397\/revisions\/6406"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}