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Originally Posted by Schumi
This just blows my mind in so many ways.
It's just ridiculous, not the actual shortage - I understand how only so much ammo can be made per unit of time- but the reason for the shortage. It's fundamentally, well, retarded.
You're not all going to run out next week and participate in an armed, hot-fire revolution. This is not Columbia. This is not the Congo.
There, I PARFed it all up.
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The point is that it COULD happen here. It did once back in the late 1700s.
Throw in some serious economic instability and the tangible prospect of open looting, civil unrest, etc. and it suddenly makes sense to have a certain amount of firepower.
Everyone has their own definition of what "reasonable" is. For one person, it might be enough to have a nightstand .44 "just in case". For others, it's racks of AR-15s, AK-47s and .50 BMGs with a hundred thousand rounds of each - "just in case".
One thing's for damn sure - it's better to have someone call you crazy today just because you feel like being prepared than it is to find onesself in such a scenario wishing you'd thought differently a little earlier.
"Be Prepared".
And yes, I agree wholeheartedly that now is not the time to go out and buy like mad. Stuff is expensive. Buy a little here and a little there when and where you can.