The last thing the blogosphere (or any other sphere, for that matter) needs is another person espousing their opinions about the latest school shooting. So..I’m not going to do that.
Instead, I’m going to prattle about how this is the first time something like this has happened where I didnt feel the need to hock a kidney or lung so I could panic-buy more AR’s or magazines.
I’ve enough on-hand that my needs are, I think, met for a long while AND I have enough to make a hefty profit off the unprepared if they pass another magazine ban. So…no panic.
It’s been fourteen years since the Assault Weapons ban ended and we could once again have normal-capacity magazines. If you can’t remember what those dark days are like, lemme dial up the Wayback Machine for you…
Too many people think that because Trump is in office we have nothing to fear in terms of future prohibitions. People who think that are short-sighted, unrealistic idiots. But, if you’ve had fourteen years to get you magazine/gun needs taken care of and still haven’t…well… maybe you’re not really the kinda guy that needs to be reading preparedness blogs.
Moral of the story: being able to not stress about magazine/gun bans is a nice thing. And that peace of mind is only because I haven’t been sitting on my hands these last few years.
100% agree.
And after you take care of yourself, its time for you to put away moar for family and your future generations.
While you never want to NOT worry about a ban-politicians being who/what they are-let’s put things in perspective. No REAL ban in the last twenty years ( not counting if you live in an asshat state. If you haven’t moved, that is far worse than anything prepper-wise ). Obviously, take precautions. If poor, a slam bang shotgun out of pipe. If rich, a $400 total AR parts kit and a pourable lower. But why are you panicking when every school shooting/mass shooting in the last twenty years has NOT produced national gun control? If you don’t do history well, just recall the last eight years of Obammy. Where was the gun control? The only thing you should ever be panicked about is ( obviously ) food, as the Feds can easily control that rather than guns, and ammunition which nobody has enough of and is a worse consumable than food logistically. If you are smart enough to distance yourself from your target, you can make do with less magazines. But you still need food and ammo. You can make do with ambushing with a rimfire rifle, or a shotgun, or a damn booby trap for goodness sakes. You still need food and ammo. Guns will be all over the place to collect. Not food or ammo.
” But why are you panicking when every school shooting/mass shooting in the last twenty years has NOT produced national gun control?”
Thats like saying “Why are you buying life insurance when in the last twenty years you haven’t died?” (additionally, as the post clearly points out…Im not panicking.)
Sure, I can “make do”….but if I have the resources to do better than ‘make do’ why wouldn’t I avail myself of that advantage?
I’m not looking to buy myself. Setting pretty well!! I’m think about picking up one of those G19xs.
Sorry, it was more a rhetorical question than directed at yourself. I don’t discount the danger of a ban, I just think it should be put into perspective. Re-prioritized behind items more likely to disappear. Does any of us have the means to NOT prioritize?
Thing is, no one gets on television and calls for a ban on canned food, flashlight batteries, electric winches, deep-cycle batteries, or sleeping bags. I’m extremely confident that there will be absolutely no federal legislation in the immediate future that restricts my ability to get those things. But…I can’t say the same thing about an AK magazine or an AR15. Prioritization is paramount, youre absolutely correct… but the criteria for how to decide that prioritization needs to incorporate, among other things, the relative likelihood of that prioritized item still being available later on. That is to say, while I am far more likely to use stored gas, stored food, first aid gear, and a ham radio in a disaster than I am to use an AK, the AK is the item most likely to be made unavailable to me at a later date when I go shopping for my preparedness supplies.
Good point. I look at the future as limited availability of everything due to economics ( ie-the system still stands as unemployment triples or the end of the PetroDollar brings in hyperinflation and a severe cut back in imports ), so that colors my planning. But I definitely get what you are saying. It is a fine point I usually overlook.
I learned my lesson after Newtown. I have a couple of plastic bins at the fortress with 100+ MAGPUL magazines Gen2. Most are non window. All are in their original packaging. I’m just sitting on them, waiting for the next price run up. When everyone was talking about banning the green-tip 556 ammo, I smiled and looked at the 500 rounds I already had on the shelf. It took about five years, but I’m finally in a position where, if there are stirrings of a ban, I don’t jump online, or pop into the gun store for more.
But I always want more. The squirrel inside of me will never be satisfied.
How come the people who want to ban guns dont concentrate on banning ammo? No one will get your magazines or guns, but most people would run out of ammo.
They do. California has some absurd controls on ammo.
If you look at 1- what has been banned successfully in the past in the US and 2- what has had the biggest increase in prices one would stock normal capacity mags very deeply and military pattern rifles deeply. One would the put energy into say a spare semi automatic handgun and ammo.
And for the procrastinators, you can still buy a *barely* used S&W M&P for well-under $400. Excellent entry level rifle. Canik TP9s for barely over $300. 5.56 is readily available at wallyworld for ~30 cents/round. Bulk pack 9mm for ~20 cents/round. Even saw 22lr for under 4(!) cents/round.
For that matter, you can find a brand new S&W M&P for not much more than $500, a Ruger AR-556 for $500…
Anderson and Palmetto lowers are selling for $40. Aero Precision for $50…
There has never been a better time to stockpile weapons and/or weapon parts than now. But no doubt there are plenty of folks out there who have spent their “preparedness money” on cell phones, McDonalds and cigarettes, who will be complaining about “gougers” and “hoarders” the next time the Democrats get enough votes to go after our rights.
Agree with C-Zero on the stock situation with mags and semi autos. I have way much, but what is to much? Well according to my wife it’s WAY to much, but who cares what she says.
The one bad thing that could come about is this: what if they banned buying hi cap mags, AND the mere possession of such? Then all of us guys/gals with stocks of now illegal to own mags would be in jeopardy evertime we used them in public, or at threat from a Do-gooder neighbor/friend/ jealous EX, etc who felt it their civic duty to report miscreants like us. I guess you’d have to put them in, as Zero would say, “ the deep sleep “ until a WROL situation came about. Shudder.
This is a great time to buy anything that might be needful that ISN’T serialized.
Barrels, parts kits, mags, mag springs!!, alot of these are very cheap but will redline you in a heartbeat, turning your expensive rifle or pistol into a club. Plus, they take very little room to store.
Extra fittings for webgear are also cheap, and important.
Safety glasses, non-orange colored ear plugs, cleaning kits (“On Aug 12, you used your Visa card to order an AR cleaning kit. Why do you need a cleaning kit if you sold all your rifles Mr “Patriot”??- maybe you should come with us…”)
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