Are we supposed to be hoarding 5.56 ammo now?

[KG1]

I think I will hoard cheese.

Why? What have you heard? We gots to know.

 

[BugI02]

Bought up 5.56 ammo a while back but don't own a gun chambered for that round yet. I know now that I will be able to pick a used AR15 at scrap price when y'all run out of ammo and can't get anymore.

That could be a long wait

 

[BugI02]

This buying up everything in sight is getting old. We as a gun community should be smarter than the masses, most of the gun owners are buying for one reason, to screw someone down the line. Charging 2-3 times what you paid for this stuff isn't capitalism per se, it is more greed. We need to stop it now. I am not talking to anyone in particular and yes I know what capitalism is, but I think that this is truly a matter of greed.

Greed is capitalism with the bit between its teeth

 

[BugI02]

Now that is funny. As we were driving home yesterday from the LGS, after pickup up some components, I told my 11 year old Son that you can always trade ammo just like gold and silver. Sorry William Devane...

Canned food and ammo, the new krueggerands

 

[BugI02]

2 weeks ago...Dicks had a coupon for AE 62gr. 150 ct. for $49.99... so at $0.30 a rnd I bit my lip and bought 1200 rnds. 8 boxes. if a bvan happens then I might just sell when it hit $3.00 a rnd.. until then I will just sit on my good deal.

What if the also ban reselling

 

[BugI02]

Since 08-09 I've adapted 'dollar cost averaging' to ammo. I regularly buy small amounts (1-200 rds) of the ammo I use in several calibers for the safe unless prices are ridiculous. The supply builds slowly but steadily and I pay the average price per round over the intervening period. Quite often when I shoot, if not spur of the moment, I'll buy new supply at retail or LGS and not go into the stockpile. Slow and steady still wins the race

 

[BugI02]

But I might be willing to hoard ....... BACON!

 

[pudly]

I think I will hoard cheese.

Get in before the rush while it's still relatively cheap!

 

[Okimeister]

Time to start buying 308/7.62 NATO in larger quantities then normal until all this crap dies down. At least that way I'll have 308/7.62 if they decide to do the same thing.

 

[scott delaney]

What if the also ban reselling

then at $0.30 a rnd its a good deal

 

[24Carat]

I think this preoccupation with what a person is spending, when, how much and on what is an exercise in futility. Several disparaging adjectives seem appropriate here. Ridiculous pretty much sums it up.

 

[BugI02]

I think people think that what someone else is willing to pay for ammunition and what that person considers a large enough supply is open to criticism because they feel it is adversely affecting their own purchase parameters. It reminds me of a time I was sitting at a blackjack table in Vegas up over a grand and the woman next to me, down about $400, told me I was playing wrong and taking her cards. Whatever

 

[illini40]

I sent a message to one of my Senators and my Reprensentative today voicing my concerns. Also sent an email to the ATF. Curious if I will get a response from anyone.

Has anyone had an luck in getting any type if response from a legislator on this?

 

[EvilKidsMeal]

I sent a message to one of my Senators and my Reprensentative today voicing my concerns. Also sent an email to the ATF. Curious if I will get a response from anyone.

Has anyone had an luck in getting any type if response from a legislator on this?

Congress is aware. Senator Coats replied to my email and specifically mentioned the proposed ban and M855 ammunition. Other INGOers have posted the same response Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner has apparently introduced, or will introduce legislation calling to abolish the ATF. A rep in the house has collected hundreds of signatures, on a letter to the ATF, in opposition to the ban and I believe a senator also started collecting signatures.

They are aware, so we will have to wait for the final decision from the ATF and then wait for Congress to comment or move on it if need be.

 

[LockStocksAndBarrel]

I sent a message to one of my Senators and my Reprensentative today voicing my concerns. Also sent an email to the ATF. Curious if I will get a response from anyone.

Has anyone had an luck in getting any type if response from a legislator on this?

Replies form the congress critters are in this thread.

https://www.indianagunowners.com/fo...dment/374847-batfe-ban-common-ar-15-ammo.html

 

[scott delaney]

so on other sites I am seeing that BATFE have pulled back on xm855 being banned? any real news on this?

 

[mainjet]

It reminds me of a time I was sitting at a blackjack table in Vegas up over a grand and the woman next to me, down about $400, told me I was playing wrong and taking her cards. Whatever

Next time tell her to sit on the other side of you.

 

[D-Ric902]

I'm not hoarding, but I did get some 5.56 reloading dies

 

[AmmoManAaron]

so on other sites I am seeing that BATFE have pulled back on xm855 being banned? any real news on this?

My understanding is that they have not pulled back, they are simply stating leaving the M855 exemption out of the 2014 regulations was a "typo" and that the exemption was still supposed to be in there. My opinion is that the writers knew the ban was coming and that they simply jumped the gun on removing it from the 2014 regulations guide. They are sneaky, but oftentimes the left hand doesn't know exactly what the right hand is doing.

 

[10Forward]

I was at Gander Mountain in Greenfield last weekend BS'ing with one of the guys in the firearms department - he told me he had someone come in the week prior and buy $8700 worth of the American Eagle green tip 150 ct boxes they were selling at $74.99 per.

That one of you guys?

...so now what is this guy going to do with $8700 worth of M855 he paid panic prices for?

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