re: #292 goddamnedfrank

The run on ammunition has gotten so bad that the only rimfire cartridges Midway has in stock are 5mm Remington, so esoteric that the the most recently produced firearm chambered in that caliber was manufactured in 1974, and .22 short blanks. The people at Walmart say that anything that’s brought in and stocked over night is cleared out within 15 minutes of their 7AM opening. This is the new normal, people stockpiling like crazy with no end in sight. The two cans of Fiocchi .22lr I ordered before Christmas finally arrived today. Just the talk of new legislation has been able to effectively induce a near three month waiting period simply through panic buying.

Yet the same folks who are snapping up those bullets in 15 minutes are sure that there’s some grand government conspiracy behind the scarcity, which is why they’re so quick to believe that a bulk buy of ammunition by DHS is somehow proof that the government is “arming up” for war.