We have all suffered from the great ammunition crunch. Prices soared and shelves stood empty. What used to start off with a couple of buddies on the phone agreeing to meet at the range after picking up a couple of boxes of ammo became a scavenger hunt just to find one box. Then, if you could find it, most often, prices were not friendly.
Soon after, shooters began gaming the system. Networks to track ammunition sales started. People shared supply on social media. As is true of most items when demand skyrockets past supply, and manufacturers are unable to increase production or even increase their purchase of raw materials to increase supply, the hoarding begins. There was pandemonium in the ammo aisle everywhere.
While supply and demand affected prices across the board for both guns and ammunition, few of us realized a huge benefit derived. In the late 1930s, Congress passed the Pittman-Robertson Act, now modified and updated several times since to meet current needs. To be fair, the Act is an excise tax that benefits wildlife and conservation. Given the boom in firearm and ammo sales, the funds collected via Pittman-Robertson shot up to whopping $824 million. That set a new record topping 2013’s tally by about $2 million. To put that into context, 2014’s record setting total tripled the amount of excise tax collected only a decade earlier.
How does the Pittman-Robertson Act work?
The excise tax is set at 11% of the wholesale price for long guns and ammunition and 10% of the wholesale price on handguns. Paid by manufacturers, producers and importers, the excise tax applies basically to all commercial sales and imports whether the purpose is for shooting, hunting or personal defense. The Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau (TTB) in the Department of the Treasury, which turns the funds over to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS), currently administer the tax.
A Look Back
Though politics is not our focus, President Obama has been accused of many things, including being the greatest gun salesman in history, and that is within our wheelhouse. A quick look at the number of firearm sales shows why. Beginning in 2008, under the fear of what the President might do, firearm sales soared. Early gun control attempts were soundly defeated for the most part thanks to gun rights organizations and strong grass roots efforts by the pro Second Amendment forces. Other high profile shooting and legislative attempts have kept sales high. Of course, the more guns sold, so will shooters need more ammunition.
The U.S. fish and Wildlife Service recently divided and released the Pittman-Robertson Act 2014 funds to state wildlife agencies. Name a game species, fur or fowl, huntable or endangered, and you have one of the unintended consequences that has benefitted. If you enjoy hunting deer, Pittman-Robertson just upped your game.
Does wingshooting or waterfowling make your blood boil? You benefitted as well. Perhaps you do not hunt and simply target shoot, but spotted owls are your passion; you benefitted as well from the massive increase in funds provided from each purchase of ammunition or firearms. Even if you do not give a passing thought to any animal, the funds support habitat, manage certain populations, research wildlife health issues (Chronic Wasting Disease and Brainworm) and improve land for wildlife as well as purchasing new public land. Everyone wins in one form or fashion from each purchase.
Just as a side note, I do not recommend coming home with an armful of new guns and a pickup truck with the bed sagging to the axels due to the weight of all of the ammunition. Well, I do recommend it, but I do not recommend getting caught by your spouse and trying to convince that it was for the greater good of the critters. Especially if they happen to greet you at the door with a frying pan in hand and no bacon in sight—just sayin’…
State Responsibility
I once had a political science professor who used the acronym TANSTAFL—There Ain’t No Such Thing As a Free Lunch—and Pittman-Robertson does come with requirements. For instance, to get the money the state must match funds at a level of $3 Federal to $1 from the state. It is good for the states to have some skin in the game, but the boon has strained some state budgets to keep pace.
How long will it last?
No one knows for sure, but the pace of growth is slowing. The National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF) recently reported the number of background checks (NICS) where still at record levels; however, that is only accounts for sales or transfers at the retail level. Pittman-Robertson collects at the wholesale level from the manufacturer, so used guns and private party transfers do not affect the revenues collected. Likewise, the shelves are full of ammunition these days and production is meeting demand. Does that signal a slowdown in ammo purchases? That does not mean funds are going to dry up for conservation or the benefits from the hoarding will diminish anytime soon. 2015 is on pace to generate revenues somewhere around 2012 levels, perhaps it will finish at the 2013 level. Either way hunters, shooters, supporters of wildlife, public lands, and most importantly wildlife will continue to benefit from your firearm and ammunition purchases. So, feel free to give yourself a pat on the back the next time you fill your shopping cart with the new concealed carry gun you have had your eye on or to resupply your personal cache. Hunting season is around the corner. Now is the time to pick up a new goose gun or deer rifle. You are not hoarding; you are practicing sound, responsible conservation! But remember the frying pan thing. No bacon? Just circle the block until they tire…
Are you a conservationist? Share your latest purchase in the comment section.
[dave]
NOW IS THE TIME TO START HOARDING AMMO AT WHATEVER PRICE YOU CAN AFFORD!!!
Over the past 18 months, I have watched the supply of 22LR swing to new highs and lows. Shopping various sources, when I come across a brick of 22LR SRN or HP, I snag it. I always try to purchase 22LR in bricks of 500 each. If you are a Plinker or Competition/Target fan, then you most likely blow through ammo like there is no tomorrow. So yes, when I find the 22LR brick for near $50.00 I grab one or two.
Here’s something most people, be they pro or anti gun, DO NOT KNOW concerning the 2nd amendment:
These four words “… a well regulated militia…” DOES NOT MEAN what it appears to mean! Back in the 1776 era “regulated” was a synonym (i.e. synonym: 2 or more words having same or similar meaning) for TRAINED!
In other words if the 2nd amendment was written using today’s lexicon it would read “…a well TRAINED militia…”
The word “regulated” does NOT mean nor EVER has meant rules and regulations!
The government knows this but they don’t want you/us to know it.
I don’t hoard, although I confess I’ve fallen to the temptation on more than one occasion.
On the other hand, I like to keep a minimum of one year’s “plinking” and training supply for each one of my weapons on hand. In the case of my Sig 556R’s, I keep around 8K 7.62×39 rounds on hand because that’s about what I will expend in “plinking” and staying familiarized and accurate with those guns year around. With my pistols, it’s 2 full mags per pistol per my weekly visit to the range times 52 weeks in the year, so it varies from 600+ rounds of .380 to about 2K rounds of 9mm.
I think now is the time we should all start hoarding again.
Will the price of .22 LR ever come back to normal? $50 (or more) for a brick is “outrageous”! I wasn’t “Hoarding”, I just wasn’t shooting as much due to the high artificially induced cost.
Pete,
Assuming your production numbers are correct for .22LR, 38 boxes per 1000 stores per week is peanuts. That’s less than four 500 round bricks per store.
Next, let’s assume the average .22LR shooter plinks or hunts 10-20 times per year, and plinks 100-200 rounds per outing…that’s 2000-4000 rounds per year per plinker- or a week’s worth of .22LR per outlet.
Working on that math, each outlet would only be able to supply sufficient ammo for 25-50 plinker per year.
Pretty sad….
The production numbers are from what info I was able to gleen from web sources mostly and should only be presumed to be something close to accurate but nothing is confirmed
That said, it’s more an exercises in how those possible numbers break down. I would think that the majority of states have more than 1000 retail outlets. When one considers the number of different types of outlet where one finds munitions, Big Box stores,(like Walmart), Chain Stores (like ACE, True Value, Gas Stations, Sporting Goods (Big 5, Scheels, BassPro,) Sole Proprieter gun shops, across a given state that number could be a great deal larger than “1000” retailers.
Your right the numbers are sad indeed. But they shouldn’t be and that’s what’s so confusing to me.
I don’t have access to any solid data to really work my way thru what the reality of this is. I have several SP gun shops that I frequent where I have always been able to acquire what I needed.
There is so much info that I don’t have. Actual number of outlets per state, numbers of .22LR amount supplied per month over a two year period, sales figures per state over two years, blah blah blah. Point being, there isn’t any way for this layman to come up with real numbers in this concern. It’s just a speculation on my part for discussions sake.
What we can agree on is there is some kind of Shortage/Distribution Bottleneck/Hoarding/Production falsification of numbers that have in part or in total have caused the current shortage conditions regardless if real or perceived.
I would note that it seems as if the sales of .22LR Rifles and Pistoles has not seemed to have suffered during this period of shortage. I say this for a couple of reasons.
Each year it seems new platforms are introduced to the market place from multiple manufactures.
I haven’t seen one manufacture drop an existing production .22LR platform from existing lines.
There hasn’t been one comment from any manufacture of .22LR platforms that I have seen, can find, or have heard of that complains of a loss of any/their market share in the .22LR platforms they produce that is connected to an ammo shortage.
This seems odd to me. One would think that based on “cause and effect” one would see changes in the platform production numbers that would reflect the depressed munition numbers. That does not seem to be the case. There are apparently more platforms on the market now than five years ago and less .22LR ammunition in the market place to support then. Hmmmm?
What ever the real story is, however it will play out in the coming months/years is hard to say.
There is better availability now than even just a year ago, if that trend continues.
Let’s try this again as it seems that the sight didn’t like my edit the first time!!
ATTEMPT NUMBER 2!
In my travelers over the past several years and to date it seems that there are some retail outlets who have rimfire munitions more often and in more quantity than others. It also seems that geographical location has something to do with this too .
For instance, Walmart – in places like western Colorado, southern Wyoming, AZ, and Idaho seem to get fairly regular supplies on either a weekly or biweekly basis. Yes, you nearly have to be there the moment the store openings on the day that their supply truck arrives and, yes, it sells out nearly in an instant.
Some of the larger Sporting good retailers also seem to get more than their share but not always as a “chain” but as individual stores. Example, it seems that Scheels in ND get better supplied than its flagship store in Sparks NV
Rime or reason??? Not that I can see ….
I have also found several sole proprietor gun shops here and there that never seem to run out of .22 LR and sell at very decent prices.
I might also say that these conditions seem to only apply to primarily .22 Long Rifle Rimfire munitions of nearly any manufacture. I have also noticed that I run across this commodity in the various “200+” and “300+” package offerings and only on rare occasions in the 50 round boxes.
Now, this seems to only apply to .22 LR Rimfire ammunition. I do not have any issues with finding and buying .17 HMR or .22 Magnum. In the same vain it’s been several years since I’ve seen any .17 Mach 2 based on .22 LR case.
I know that it’s being produced, I continue to hear that every manufacture is at its peak production levels. If the production levels are to be believed it’s somewhere in the neighborhood of 2.5 to as much as 4 MILLION rounds PER DAY!
Let’s go with an average of sayyyyy 3.25 Mil per day (for discussions sake) X 30 days that = 97,500,000 rounds per month or 24,375,000 rounds per week.
Round down to sayyyy 95 Mil per month or 23,750,000 per week and that’s 1,900,000, 50 round boxes per month or 475,000 boss per week. Let’s devide that weekly number by 50 states and we get 9,500, 50 round boxes of ammo PER WEEK/PER STATE . Now just for fun let’s say that each state has 1000 retailers and everyone has a standing WEEKLY order for say 50 , 50 round boxes every week. If all things were fair a equitable and the world was a great place to live in, that there weren’t any issues with laws, or government or pro an con points of view and . . . . So forth. Then, every retailer, in every state, every week of the year, would receive 9.5 , 50 round boxes of .22LR that’s 475 round per week. 2000 retailers? 4.75 boxes per week. This of course doesn’t account for online sales at all!
Nowwwww, there are those who will get more, many that get none and seemly no account ion for how those marketing decisions are make. “Fairness”, “equitity”, or ” equality” have nothing at all to do with this. If you want to know what goes where, and why and how much…. FOLLOW THE MONEY.
The above is simply for reference and perspective because from this persons point of view I don’t understand if, indeed, that the .22LR productions levels are maxed out or nearly so by all the manufactures and there is, as they say, MORE .22LR being produced than in years past.
Where is it? Even hoarding can’t account for the numbers, even a general guess like above, over the period of years that this has now been going on. We would likely be hearing about police raids of “……a wear house with 10’s of Thousands of .22 Long Rifle Ammunition … ” in the nightly news. Anybody?? No? I haven’t heard anything like that either.
So, where is it all going?? It seems to be becoming more plentiful but that could also be a smoke screen. I wish I knew what the real story was here because it doesn’t make much sense any longer.
I have a bit of .22LR for my needs and as I shoot primarily .17HMR and that rimfire hasn’t seemed to be a problem I’m in fair shape. Still, it would be nice to, just for once
In my travelers over the past several years and to date it seems that there are some retail outlets who have rimfire munitions more often and in more quantity than others. It also seems that geographical location has something to do with this too .
For instance, Walmart – in places like western Colorado, southern Wyoming, AZ, and Idaho seem to get fairly regular supplies on either a weekly or biweekly basis. Yes, you nearly have to be there the moment the store openings on the day that their supply truck arrives and, yes, it sells out nearly in an instant.
Some of the larger Sportinggood retailers also seem to get more than their share but not always as a “chain” but as individual stores. Example, it seems that Scheels in ND get better supplied than its flagship store in Sparks NV
Rime or reason??? Not that I can see ….
I have also found several sole proprietor gun shops here and there that never seem to run out and sell at very decent prices.
I might also say that these conditions seem to only apply to primarily .22 Long Rifle Rimfire munitions of nearly any manufacture. I have also noticed that I run across this commodity in the various “200+” and “300+” package offerings and only on rare occasions in the 50 round boxes.
Now, this seems to only apply to .22 LR Rimfie ammunition. I do not have any issues with finding and buying .17 HMR or .22 Magnum. In the same vain it’s been several years since iveseen any .17 Mach 2 based on .22 LR case.
I know that it’s being produced, I continue to hear that every manufacture is at its peak production levels. If the production levels are to be believed it’s somewhere in the neighborhood of 2.5 to as much as 4 MILLION rounds per day! At an average of sayyyyy 3.25 Mil per day X 30 days that = 97,500,000 rounds per month. Round down to sayyyy 95 Mil and that’s 1,900,000, 50 round boxes. Let’s devide that by 50 states and we get 38,000 50 round boxes of ammo per week . Now just for fun let’s say that each state has 1000 retailers and everyone has a standing order for say 50 , 50 round boxes every week. If all things were fair a equitable and the world was a great place to live in, that there weren’t any issues with laws, or government or pro an con points of view and . . . . So forth. Then, every retailer, in every state, every week of the year, would receive 38, 50 round boxes of .22LR that’s 1,900 round per week. 2000 retailers? 19 boxes per week. 3000 retailers about 12 boxes per and so forth. This of course doesn’t account for online sales at all.
The above is simply for reference and perspective because from this persons point of view I don’t understand if indeed
Pete in Alaska. It sounds like you are the typical Mr. been there, done that and know it all Guru. Give us all a break, keep your posts short and simple.
@kurt
Sorry you feel that way. It must be terrible to be you. This blog at one time had a higher class of commenters that communicated with each other. I see that’s no longer the case. Maybe you should stay with Twitter comments, anything else might provide you with to many words, ideas, POV’s, for your limited intellect to comprehend and deal with.
Best to say nothing at all if you don’t have anything worth saying, kurt.
You have a day . .
@ Pete in Alaska.
Yeah Pete, you stating to sound just like ME. You don’t want to end up like Martin, DO YOU. Sitting All-Night, Posting Comment to Himself. Sec…
@Secundius
Hey Mr. S
Been awhile we touched base. I don’t comment on TSL much any more as the site seems to have lowered its bar from days gone by. No matter.
Don’t have a lot of time to write much these days anyway. Every once in awhile though an artical is worth some time. Still look forward to Woody and Dave Dolbee’s articals, but lately the rest of the content here hasn’t been very good. Good to hear from you! Pete sends…
Pete in Alaska.
Just “Sec”. Curing Will of the habit is going to be “An Uphill Battle on a Slippery Slope Covered In Lard” Couple thing’s for you collection:
1. Dermabound Advanced, Medical Grade Super Glue w/o a Prescription. Box of 12, 0.7ml Pen Applicators at Medex Supply for just $24.99 USD.
2. 8x60S for your 98k, made by Hornady and is available from Graf and Sons.
That other website, “Flabbergasted”. Caught me by surprised, I…I…I don’t where to start. I deeply regret the Incident, and Humbly Apologize to you Sir. Sec…
@Secundius
Very nice! Thanks for the info on the 8x60S. I’m already looking into this and seeing if my guy can get me a few hundred of these bullets.
I have several tubes of the Dermabond Advanced in my bigger med kits. However it’s nice to know it can be acquired w/o a script and where. Thanks again! No need for an apology. It’s all good.
Well said, Brother!
Pete thanks for the detailed and thoughtful feedback; it’s nice to read someone’s honest thoughts!
Keep on keeping on!
Shelves are full ammo… is BS! Many centerfire calibers are in good supply but some including any .22 ammo, are still absent. I recently made a round of sporting goods stores, both chain and independent in the Las Vegas area and with the exception of high priced target ammo from Lapua and similar brands, .22 LR was completely absent. Bass Pro had shelves of most centerfire ammo but not one single box of .22 LR. Even a local shop that usually has stuff when no one else does, had none but the high priced spread.
Personally, as demand has driven prices up and price gouging seems to be still prevalent at some sources, I’m not buying anything but what I really want at a price I think is fair. Reloading still provides a significant savings for those avid shooters who spend on essentially and not just for the love of the hobby itself. 9MM has come down to more reasonable levels but .223/5.56 is often still at 40 to 50 cents a round for surplus and range stuff and close to a buck a round for hunting and personal defense grade ammo.
I have always wondered if we had a verification process to ensure that taxes collected from sportsmen/shooters was spent on what it was intended. We found out Clinton was diverting taxes from hunting licenses to fund closing off national forests to hunting. Seems we find out these things long after damage is done and would seem that some of our elected up north would be watching to catch, block, and report to us those kinds of insulting moves.
Another story in the email leading to this writing reports Obama wanting to mix gun control to limiting federal benefits just as the back door attacks on V A reporting recently.
Would seem the tolerance to these attacks would just about be over with to me.
Well, at least I didn’t purchase 1.4 billion rounds of hollow points for “target practice” and “training purposes”.
Has anybody ever figured out what the social security agency is going to do with “armed personnel” and was that a Swat Team I heard about? I was in the Social Security Office last week, as I looked around I didn’t see any of the 70 year old’s that looked particularity dangerous and the armed guard looked as harmless as the citizens. I didn’t have an issue with the Agriculture Department being armed, you know how vicious those Killer Tomatoes are.
My hoarding is peanuts to the government’s hoarding.
Mikial your wife is a keeper. I would say she is definetly in the minority of wives of gun collecting husbands.
Thanks, man. And trust me, I know I am blessed.
TANSTAAFL comes from the Robert Heinlein novels in the 1950’s and 1960’s. Especially read “The Moon is a Harsh Mistress” if you are an advocate of liberty.
I also recommend some of his novels. I read “The Moon is a Harsh Mistress” in Junior High and a few times since. I don’t always agree, but there is a lot of good stuff in there.
One cannot agree on everything with everyone. In fact, that is the point – people are different and have to respect differences, that’s what a “free country” is all about; but…
there are certain “classics” that are timeless and stand for themselves, create a mode of thought, are the archetype or create the innovation. This is one such example. There are of course many others. I still recommend “1984” even though when I first read it, it was futuristic science fiction set far in an unimaginable future. We have passed 1984 and ARE LIVING IT.
If one is looking at the classics , may be looking to create a mode of thought, may desire to emulate the archetype, advance the innovation, perhaps even discover new layers of foundation . . . May I suggest the read and re-read then study and read again tome, The Art of War by Sun Tuz. Some writing and thoughts are timeless.
I have a copy and have been trying to get to read it for a while. Life has been to crazy. I am in the process of emulating another classic. I am “dropping out of society” – sick of it.
Atlas is SHRUGGING.
My vengeance is my quitting. When Atlas shrugs there will be surprised looks. Time has come.
“Atlas Shrugged”
Who besides you and I ever heard of it, let alone read it? Let me rephrase. How many in America are still left that can think coherent thoughts and express them verbally or in writing?
Want proof? Just look at our so called leaders in Washington. (Of BOTH parties!) I’m 77 and and if we were in the days of my youth most of these clowns would flunk the civil service test for the sanitation department!
The reason “1984” was chosen as the title was because the author wrote it in 1948. He just turned the last 2 didgits around to come up with 1984.
Just some trivia.
@ Dave Dolbee
Once again thank you for a good artical and the info it contained.
I’ve known about this program and several others too which account for so much of the revenues that support Wildlife and Wildland management programs on a broad spectrum.
Not just hunting. Fishing, hiking, camping, habitat restoration, heritage land, game reintroduction programs, just to name a few.
I have had the conversation befor with those that want to end hunting and fishing, curtail severely the ability of people to tread in the outdoors and they still are ardent supporters of endangered specieces programs, reintroduction projects, reclaiming habitat. However, when asked very very few seem to understand or know that the funding for these “higher ideal” projects of their focus in its greater percentage comes from this Act and State hunting and fishing licenses. cant tell you the number of times I’ve been called a lier for even suggesting that the money I spend as a sportsmen with these taxes, fees, and licenses, creates and supports these projects let along that, We, as Sportsman, are as much of and often more than an active part of them and stewards of the lands we tread upon and creatures we nurture, harvest, and support in hopes that they will be here for years and generations to come.
It is in everyone’s best interests to know and understand how funding is attained for these lofty endeavors. Thank you again for stating the complex in understandable terns. Best regards, Pete sends …
They really expect us to believe that the funds go to wildlife conservation efforts? These are the same criminals in Washington who are gutting Social Security to fund illegal immigrants & welfare, continuing to tax us into poverty, and strip the Constitution!
Give me a break! BATFE (or ATTTB, as the author calls it) turning money over to the USF&WS is like the IRS sending us all a 50% income tax refund check. Should we laugh or puke?
Out of courtesy to CTD I will not mention the name of this major online retailer, but just yesterday I received an email from them stating my ammo backorder had to be canceled because it had been over 2 years. It went on to read that since the manufacturer has been unable to provide an expected delivery date they would be cancelling my order to get it off their books.
My order had been placed for 2000 rounds of Federal Champion .22LR, and would have come in an ammo can too – all for just 4 cents a round.
After seeing .22 ammo shoot up to 10 cents or more per round (plus shipping), I really was hoping that order would eventually have been filled. But no such luck. So needless to say I was quite bummed. I have a really hard time paying that much for .22 ammo when it used to be so cheap.
So many people in the gun culture have repeatedly been using the words “hoarding” and “panic buying” since the Sandy Hook massacre. Words have meaning, and these words are false. I could see our liberal enemies using these words, but why does our own side do so?
Buying multiple ARs, AKs, or >10 rd pistols, while powerful forces in the nation waged an all out assault on gun ownership, was not “panic buying”. If those votes had not turned out the way they had, these purchases would have been our last chance, perhaps forever, to buy these guns for our kids and grandkids. I did so, and I don’t regret it one bit.
Stocking ammunition, after living through month after month after month of finding only bare shelves, is not “hoarding”. It is a sensible preemptive act, to never be caught off guard again. I am doing so, and I don’t regret it one bit nor will I apologize for it.
Agreed and well said.
When I started reading the article, l was expecting a rant about “hoarding” hurting other gun owners, so l was pleased that it was more positive, but l agree that these terms need to drop out of our vocabulary.
I don’t “hoard,” I stock up just like l do on food and household supplies. That’s not hoarding, it’s taking responsibility for yourself and your family. Something Liberals no very little about.
@TxFree
+10 on your comment.
My only disagreement is that those people are not “liberal” under any definition of the world. They are totalitarian leftists, just like the totalitarian leftists who have been carrying out the socialist movement to the substantial harm of all mankind. A true liberal would vigorously oppose the totalitarian leftists’ efforts to take away the single most important power belonging to all People – the basic human right to armed self-defense.
@PeteDub
I hear what you’re saying and l do see your point. The problem is that the true definitions of words change over time, and so I agree these people are not true liberals, but in today’s world they are the Liberals.
Sadly, the same is true of the so-called conservatives. They do not hold with Conservative values, but are more than willing to compromise and wheel and deal and curry favor for their own agenda.
Maybe I’m naive and that’s how they have to do it in order to get anything done, but in my eyes we do not have the leadership we need . . . but maybe based on what the American urban population is turning into, we have the leadership they deserve.
The rest of us are a dying breed and we can just hunker down and be prepared to do what we must to survive.
Mikial, I believe your statement “Sadly, the same is true of the so-called conservatives. They do not hold with Conservative values, but are more than willing to compromise and wheel and deal and curry favor for their own agenda.” Would apply to RINOs, not conservatives.
RINOs are back-stabbing, wishy-washy careerist politicians, not representatives of their electorate, as they claim.
Amen to that, Brother.
The truth is, we are betrayed by the very people we elect to represent us.
Prepare and in the words of Hawkeye in the Last of the Mohicans story line . . . keep yer power dry.
@TxFree Well said! I don’t hoard either, but if I see a bulk quantity of ammo that I use at a reasonably good price, I buy a box or case. When the new gun store in town had AR-15s on sale for $600, I did not hesitate to buy the last one.
Fun article, and information the environmentalists just don’t understand. They try to ban hunting and say how ignorant hunters and shooters are, but we have done more in the past decades to benefit wildlife and habitat than all the Sierra Club and NWF Liberals have ever done. It is outdoorsmen and women who are the truest conservationists and do the most for the outdoors.
On another note, it’s always funny when some writer talks about getting in trouble with your spouse because you bought a new gun. I guess I must be one of the lucky ones because my wife loves guns and has her own Beretta, AK, and tactical shotgun. There’s been times at gun shows when SHE talked ME into buying a new gun.