25 Replies to “It’s Probably Nothing”

  2. The Americans used to constitute a great nation – a very great nation. Do they any more? We will see, but what I am not seeing is a willingness to take on platoon-sized groups of armed government thugs. And that, of course, will determine the outcome.

  3. Like a frenzied rabid animal, the USA over the course of the past 30 years or so has become its own worst enemy. It makes perfect sense that its citizens would be loading up on guns and ammo, out of sheer paranoia.

  4. These are ominous signs. For the life of me I can’t imagine a class warfare, that Obama seems to be trying to promote, could ever occur. But I am beginning to think that it could actually be possible. I can’t believe what is currently happening to a once-great nation.

  5. The signs are everywhere, but the arrogance/ignorance of the DC Dem cabal, pushing the UN civil disarmament agenda, forges ahead with dangerous unconstitutional legislating against the 2nd amendment. This is certain to have unintended consequences.
    Go ahead, take guns from honest people, g’wan scapegoat them for your inability to cope with violent/insane criminals, this is the showdown UN gun grabbers wanted, get cracking while the media fear mongers have hysteria peaking. You’ve set this moment up with years of defaming US gun owners – venally blurring the distinct line between criminal activity and responsible gun ownership. You’ve encouraged and fanned the dangerous media anti-self defense anti 2nd amendment hysteria and hyperbole over every murder of unarmed, un-guarded victims. You resist the fact that armed civians lower crime rates, you ignore the realities of making this work means martial law and sovet style house to house army searches, and ignore fundamental constitutional justice to bring this despotic civilian disarmament sgenda to this tipping point. So go ahead, get it on and watch the backlash go where you never envisioned it going – to open civil disobedience – then you will have to act like every other martial tyranny that ever went to war against its own people’s freedom – the kind of dictatorship craphole nations who populate the UN and created its civilian disarmament agenda – which Obumbles is lust stupid/traitorous enough to fragment the American people with.
    Question for dear leader Obumbles: Does it really appear that people are intimidated and getting ready to comply with draconian communist style gun grabs, or are they doubling down and getting ready to resist?
    BTW: My nomination for hypocritical sound bite of the year is Michael Moore chiding gunowners as white paranoids – hours after the sound bite was recorded Moore’s burley ARMED body guard was tagged for a firearms infraction.

  7. Congress should start talking about banning household appliances. That’ll give GE and Maytag a good boost!

  8. The supply of ammo isnt much better her in Canada. Stock Up you never know when you will need it or what it will be worth

  9. So are the companies that produce ammo deliberately keeping production low in order to keep prices high,or have they been leaned on by Government agencies and told to reduce production orders to the public if they want to keep their military contracts?Anyone else wonder about that answer? I for one sure do.

  10. They can only muster so many “platoon-sized groups of armed government thugs” in a limited number of areas at one time, John Lewis. Those armed government thugs need to sleep sometime. And there is no “Green Zone” for them to do so. In addition, those armed goverment thugs have families that are not constantly under their protection – again, no Green Zones. They will indeed succeed in their first few efforts because Mere Citizens keep screaming “No Fort Sumters!” But I wonder how long it shall be until they face the wrath of individuals who give no warning? When they realize that their very own Rules of Engagement have made them AND THEIR FAMILIES fair targets. Anytime. Anywhere…

  11. Everyone assumes this Ammo is being bought up by Individuals for personnel use. Excuse my ignorance for not knowing how this is believed, or calculated. Is it possible this Ammo is being bought up by Government agencies? State along with federal bodies.
    If the former why would a Majority who re-voted Obama be this frantic? If the latter, why do Federal or State agencies need this much ammunition?
    I,m asking was this election rigged with people knowing it was. This being the result.
    Does the Federal government perceive difficulties ahead with a new tax regime?

  12. The ammunition supply chain, Area 52, is fairly complex. Environmental regs are restrictive. Cases, primers, and bullets are not readily available. FedPig has artificially conscripted a significant portion of the ammo manufacturers’ capabilities with their orders, and manufacturers are reluctant to add capacity when they realize that FedPig can put them out of business without warning and without reason. Furthermore, significant amounts of ammo come from overseas, and government is restricting importation of that ammo as well. This is a fairly well documented conspiracy by the US government to make ammo expensive and unavailable. Just as they have done for those M1s that were to be returned from Korea:
    http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/09/01/obama-administration-reverses-course-forbids-sale-antique-m-rifles/

  13. Area 52, they are working flat out with what resources (factory space, machinery, people, raw materials, capital) they have to make hay while this sun shines. But it takes time to add production facilities, get new machinery, hire and train people, and it takes money. The bean counters tell them how much it’s worth to invest more and they think about the risk of getting stuck with unneeded production capacity down the road. The business case is often, “just keep making as much as you can with what you have, and take the higher profits from higher prices dictated by supply and demand.

  14. Prohibition did not stop the distribution of alcohol.
    The “war on drugs” is going nowhere.
    An entrepreneur will always be able to get the customer what he or she wants. So place your orders…….

  15. Oh yes, indeed. It would be amusing if at some point the Mexican drug cartels found it profitable to sell weapons back to Americans. What would that be called? – “Operation furious and fast”, possibly. The porous border might become most welcome, then.
    As for the US constitution, it seems to have about the force that the Soviet constitution had under Stalin.

  16. Not just a USA concern. Our local gun store was only able to be open to public two days last week. Too busy processing online orders. When I was finally able to enter, the store was totally empty. Good I guess ahead of counting inventory, but wow.

  17. I don’t know jack about any of this, but a few things occur to me:
    1. The US government, and/or state (meaning the 50-to-57 states of the Union, as opposed to the Tomato — as in Obama-Heinz-Kerry) and/or local agencies, are not likely to buy retail (as in, on the same basis that you and I can buy one of anything) other than, generally, on an purely ad hoc basis.
    2. Given the declining credit-worthiness of these organizations, their credibility in the market-place and, as a result, their purchasing power, is also declining.
    3. Sales representatives in all industries, from my experience, have relationships with their retail re-sellers that require a certain degree of honesty. Accordingly, the reasons for supply “shortages” cannot long remain undisclosed. We’ll know shortly what’s going on (the MSM won’t report it, of course, but it will be on the internet, anecdotally, in the next few days, at the latest, followed by more or less authoritative analyses and projections).
    4. The Second Amendment (1787) seems to me to about the partial sharing, with the general citizenry, of the state’s (as represented by the established sovereign governmental structure over a defined piece of territory) normally presumed monopoly of power (a great beauty of the American constitution, as a counterpoint to the European non-constitutions of the day or today, or, say, the Soviet constitution, and equally as a counterpoint to the Trudeau constitution of 1982 — wherein, for relief, you can apply, in a very selective set of areas, to the state).
    5. The Boston Tea Party (1773; a precursor to the TEA-party) was about a rebellion against the taxing of productivity in a robust area of the British Empire to support a feminized culture in Europe (see Adam Nicholson’s, “Seize the Fire”, 2005).
    There is, IMO, nothing sacrosanct about the USA (in practice, as opposed to in principle). Apres nous, le deluge — I think we need to be ready for what Igor Panarin has predicted.

  18. Revnant Dream, this story is about retail sales. Ammo is being purchased by U.S. Government agencies and whether or not those sales are being reported and how much of that is abnormal that will be happening at wholesale supply points or factories. Regardless, this is private individuals cleaning out the retail stores faster than they can be restocked and that is indicative of something going on in the minds of private citizens in very large numbers on a very wide distribution.

  20. My personal experience in looking for ammunition is that everyone is stocking up. My good friend that runs a prominent online gun store tells me that the business is just ridiculous right now and they cannot keep up with the online orders at all and have run out of most common calibers of cartridges.
    I went to my favorite gun store a couple of days ago and was stunned how many people were in the store. They were having to enact the fire code on how many could be in the store at one time.
    I have been looking in vain for more .308 and .45 ACP amuunition. It simply is not available. Good thing I thought ahead and bought lots before the election.
    I think the people may be worried. I know I am.

  24. Revnant Dream, in answer to your question about government orders for ammunition, government agencies do not go online to retail stores. They buy directly from the manufacturer sometimes for years in advance. For instance the FBI has the option of extending the one year contract with Winchester for up to five years in one year increments for a potential total value of $54M. Here is a brief article
    apbweb.com/corporate-spotlight-products-menu-40/1291-winchester-wins-fbi-40-saw-ammunition-contract.html
    I would imagine that eventually the ammunition supply will catch up with demand, the purchasers of ammunition have only so much money and so many hiding places for their cache.

  25. Went to Dick’s today to buy ammo. They had only one box of expensive .223, no 9mm ammo. The only thing we could get was .380.

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