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joker19
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We are doing ourselves in! Everyone is running around playing "chicken little" yelling the sky is falling. We are the ones that are making a shortage, we are the ones that buy everything we see if fear of someone taking it away. Then this in turn makes a false sense of a need to hoard. This happened before and one thing leads to another. Hoarding of food, cars, gas, or anything else we think we are going to run out of has in itself caused 99% of the availability problems. If everyone would sit back and let the system catch up we will be ok, but as you are doing now it will do many things in the future such as higher prices, gouging, and the manufactures won't keep up. Now what is going on is those that get the primers are selling them on Gun Broker for rediculous prices and fear makes you pay this, FEAR!!! When the sustem does catch back up and the primers are available I do hope you enjoy those $400 primers you got such a good deal on. People really do some STUPID things!!![?]
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I passed the millenium with stuff I'd bought before 1991, thinking Klinton was lying about guns and Rights (proved me right fer oncet).
The current craze is driven by a desire to pick up those last few things that we all may need "eventually", or in the case of something happening weather-wise, or a general breakdown of Society and the eventual "Warlords" scenarios reflected by current events all over Africa.
I commend those consumers of firearms-related gear for keeping the Economy strong, lifting the hopes of the very businesses we need to keep running profitably, and supporting the families of gun makers, parts houses, ammo suppliers and mfrs, delivery systems and ancillary beneficiaries of their recent largesse. We are the only thing between bans, bankruptcy, layoffs, and closings of gun-related industries.
That being said; I think it's freaking GOUGING for a box of any centerfire pistol ammo to be over $20, that primers are supposed to be 2-3 cents apiece, that a box of used brass would be $0.25 EACH, and instead of the usual $12-16 for a pound of Reloder22, it's $25!
How's that Hope'n'Change doin' fer ya?
I will, to a certain degree, agree that the 'chicken little' syndrome has hit us. And, I've watched non shooting 'profiteers' stick it to people. But, the other side of this shortage is also caused by US! That's right, you and me shooters. We don't ordinarily buy enough primers powder and bullets to keep capacity running as high as we'd like when a crunch comes. That crunch came in the form of two Middle-Eastern wars. As much supply as was needed was diverted to those consumers, who needed it very much BTW, and the rest, if any was left over, was relegated to us. Now, had we been regular consumers of the products, and helping to grow their business, a crunch that came along might not have been so drastic on our parts. However, if you look at how bad it got during WWII....we have nothing to complain about. Our parents were lucky to even get butter and milk let alone primers.