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Will Ammo Prices Be Coming Down?

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Much like the price of 'assault weapons' after Omighty is inaugerated? (IF you'll be able to get them, and IF the FedGov doesn't pull what Kalfornicate did after the extension of their 'Assault gun' registration.) :roll:
 
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Oh, and like how the weather turning colder here north of the equator increasing demand for, and consumption of, fuel oil so much that I saw gas this afternoon at $1.67 a gallon?

I started getting skeptical about market rationality in 1995, when my "safer" strategy of putting money in short-term bond funds resulting in the principal values getting sacked TWICE AS MUCH as had ever happened before, for the relatively small shift in interest rates.

Ain't no reason to the markets any more, except when demand gets really, really high and prices skyrocket.
 
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A few of the reports I've seen predict a period of deflation,,,even more predict serious inflation.
I strechted my budget about as far as it could go '07 and through the first half of '08. Acqisitions now are are strictly on a too good to turn down basis. Catch as catch can, I ain't holding my breath.

China is buying all of it's own production of metals to maintain prices as best they can. As for manufacturers, currently they are stuck w/ trying to peddle their stuff produced w/ raw materials purchased when prices were high. Distributors are holding off orders, waiting to see what the purchase point is from the manufacturers. Thorny problem. At least that's what I hear.


A lot of the stores around here hane sold off much of their ammo stocks, but can't say when they will be resupplied.
 
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With the monetary problems like they are and massive layoffs we could be in for very bad times. I remember reading that during the depression roving gangs from the cities would go out into the countryside looting rural areas. Bank robberies are up at least around here and breaking and enterings are up and this area has not been hard hit by the economic failures yet.
I have a friend who recently retired as a SF S/Maj and he has partied with muslims for the last part of his career and he figures we are going to be in for very hard times shortly.
Think about it, they are deploying 20,000 troops for duty in civil problems. There are too many missing suitcase nukes from Russia and I am not gonna believe some apparatchik has dumped them in a land fill to foster world piece.
Be vigilant and report anything suspicious involving *********.
 
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Break-ins were rising long before any monetary problems erupted. The sheer volume of materials stolen from the average home requires some pretty serious logistics today. Ripping off a 52" LCD isn't going to be the traditional one-man job of years past. With a crew, everything gets divided up, so they need to be busier than ever to keep themselves in the mode that they are accustomed to.

Bank robberies are also a relatively safe occupation. It seems that the effort put forth by banks in the past, to their customers, is today reserved for the man with a note. Robberies are to be met with meek obedience in virtually every business today, insuring a burgeoning armed robbery, or smash and grab, industry. Unless, and until, there is a change on a large scale, why wouldn't these avenues be used by the maturing criminal crowd?

The 20,000 troops are to be used to organize, instruct, and set-up response groups for WMD events. 20,000 soldiers aren't going to be capable of exerting much in the way of national control, as that's 400 men per state. The military, however, is going to be used in the case of a WMD. There's no avoiding it in a reasonably inexpensive manner. Consider. FEMA, by it's Charter, is to be activated after a request by a governor of a state declared a Disaster. It has, again by it's Charter, 72 hours to arrive on the scene. It has VERY FEW employees, and virtually NO materials. It depends on local resources, and volunteer man-power from across the country. They also require local resources. FEMA is a MANAGEMENT group, and is designed to co-ordinate resources. They use the volunteer groups to purchase, operate, and resolve the problems.

In the case of a WMD, local resources may or may not be available. Local man-power may also be compromised. The need for swift, and decisive, action will pre-empt a 72 hour window. Now, where is that going to come from? Who else has the man-power, equipment, and logistics to respond under those circumstances? In the case of nuclear WMD, local electronics will be fried, including all communications and vehicular abilities. Who else has shielded equipment?

If the WMD is chemical, especially persistent agents, who else has the equipment on a scale large enough to actually do anything? In the event of a Biological WMD, the number of medical personnel required will overwhelm any other source. Any other group going to step forward with the resources to quarantine an entire metropolitan area? I don't think so.

Consider that a pair of aerosol cans worth of weaponized HN51 virus, in a single pair of rest rooms in a major airport, would spread the disease throughout the WORLD in short order. Got any other coherent force large enough to control such a process?

Do we even WANT a civilian force large enough to respond? It would have to be huge, with pre-positioned stock-piles, and paid for their skills. These people would train and prepare until a disaster occurred, at a massive cost to the tax-payers. Believe me, they would have little time for anything else, as the volume of information is vast, and the skills are perishable unless practiced often. They will also require dedicated transport, communications, and logistics, again very expensive for the amount of use. :thumbsup:
 
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A 400 man force in many states will equal the state police in that state and or exceed many. In most states that force that size would exceed FBI, CUSTOMS, ICE, HS , Justice numbers by several times over.
FEMA has pre position trailers stocked with a multitude of stuff for catastrophic emergencies. We just went through one in South Carolina about three years back with the big chlorine spill. That was about 18 miles from me. The FEMA pre positioned trailers were brought in and the contents used by responding personnel.
As well there is the DEMORT Teams for mass casualty assessment/processing.
 
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Mine just jacked .22LR bulks about $2/box. See my post in the Rimfires section on this outrage.
 
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Within the past week I checked Chine' Mart for ammo,,,I've been eyeing Win. BuckMaster slugs (improved foster),,,the store down the road is holding the price @ $6.47 per five, was at a 'Wally' about twenty miles down the road,,,same slugs; $5.27,,,at that time Twenty-two ammo seemed to be holding the price from my last purchase some weeks ago. Both are 'suoer stores'.

I'm hoping they'll mark down the guncases,I could use one or two.
 
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Assault/Tactical Cases on sale at Midway USA for $17. http://www.midwayusa.com
Item numbers 398-803 (42" case) and 767-873 (46" case)

Ammo prices!! Supply Side Economics will control the prices not the metals market!

Until people think they have enough to hold them the ammo prices will stay inflated! I know if I was a ammo mfg I would do the same! Make Hay while the sun is shining!

Terry
 
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I spoke to a relative that works in the metal industry and he assures me brass/ammo prices are going to drop. As soon as the panic buying slows down, some rogue ammo dealer is going to get his hands on the cheaper stuff and undercut Ammoman ect. until everyone starts lowering their prices.

I expect to see reloading components drop in price before factory ammo.
 
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Had a cousin come over yesterday to sight in his new Contender rifle and he brought one box of ammo. 28.35 on the price tag for 308 150gr. I am still shocked to see brass going for 40 per hundred and up for the bigger stuff.

I told him he needs to get into reloading and he brags he knows nothing about guns and apparently doesn't want to learn???? He leaves his brass laying which goes into the "fund". I am always in a receptive mood haha.

So it goes. The contender rifle did shoot pretty well. I showed him how to hit a target at 600 yards with it and he was impressed.
 
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Come to think of it, remember last summer when food prices went up and it was blamed on high fuel prices (for transport)? The Lovely Mrs. Snake tells me that they haven't come down a bit, even though gas is now less than 50% what it was then.
 
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