Interesting article in the new issue of NRA Rifleman addressing the ammo shortage/hoarding. The author gives a example of a friend that calls him, bragging about scoring 5000 rds of 22.ammo he scored. When the author stopped him short with the Question Why? You never usually buy more than 500. His answer was "I'm buying all I can get." There are over a "Billion" rounds of .22 cal produced every year in this county and Homeland security is NOT buying it all up. The greedy hoarders are.
I was in a Dick's Sporting goods store some time ago and they had just received 6 boxes of .22 cal. The guy in front of me, told the clerk he wanted ALL OF THEM. I asked the customer if I could have one box, and he did not like that request, but did allow me to have one only and did not offer any more. Not much to say about this man's character in my opinion.
Last week I was in Walmart and they had received some Tula 380. And to Walmart's credit, it was the standard pricing and not a gouged price. They also have the sign that say's "only 3 boxes per customer". They had 4 boxes left. My first instinct was to buy all three. But then I asked myself if I want to be part of the hypocrisy that exist now in this sport. I choose to buy only ONE. Better to give some other guy a chance. A small token on my part, but maybe some other guy will do the same, and maybe we can all join in and stop this greedy nonsense that plagues this sport.
It is time we hall became true "SPORTSMEN".
I was in a Dick's Sporting goods store some time ago and they had just received 6 boxes of .22 cal. The guy in front of me, told the clerk he wanted ALL OF THEM. I asked the customer if I could have one box, and he did not like that request, but did allow me to have one only and did not offer any more. Not much to say about this man's character in my opinion.
Last week I was in Walmart and they had received some Tula 380. And to Walmart's credit, it was the standard pricing and not a gouged price. They also have the sign that say's "only 3 boxes per customer". They had 4 boxes left. My first instinct was to buy all three. But then I asked myself if I want to be part of the hypocrisy that exist now in this sport. I choose to buy only ONE. Better to give some other guy a chance. A small token on my part, but maybe some other guy will do the same, and maybe we can all join in and stop this greedy nonsense that plagues this sport.
It is time we hall became true "SPORTSMEN".
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