Gun control suffers two setbacks in Congress http://news.yahoo.com/gun-control-suffers-two-setbacks-congress-201213233.html A Democratic proposal to ban the sale of assault weapons officially ended on Tuesday, when a lack of bipartisan support doomed the ban in the Senate. Also, background checks appear to remain in limbo. Majority leader Harry Reid said he was withdrawing the assault weapons legislation after he couldnt get within 20 votes of the 60 needed to avoid a filibuster. In fact, Reid said he couldnt muster 40 votes, meaning that at least 15 Democrats or independents opposed the ban. Reid also indicated that universal background checks, including checks on private gun sales, needed help to make it to a floor vote after Easter. There are a couple different background check proposals floating around, Reid said. All these issues are important and Im going to do what I can to make sure we have a fair, sound debate on this but we cant have it unless I have something that I can put on the floor to proceed to it, Reid said in remarks reported by The Hill. The current background check proposal was offered by Senator Chuck Schumer over the objections of several members of a bipartisan committee. Schumer intended it as a placeholder until...... ....This Bill was destined to fail............ strike one......... steeeerike two.......
I hope these gun control laws going into the dumpster will calm the panic buying of ammo. Wal-Mart shipments of ammo on random mornings are picked clean within minutes. I'm not going to pay $1 a round for common rifle ammunition from Lucky Gunner or other places. I thought I had enough of a supply with around 300 for each of my main guns. Now the people who said to have 2,000+ rounds for each don't sound so unreasonable.
when the (*)(*)(*)(*)storm hit DC in 08, I started quietly buying small amounts. a box here, a box there. I would only cycle through the supplies if I had already purchased replacements. I'm not worried. Like you, a small bit of prep goes a long ways
I have 3 other .22's, plus I bought a CMMG ,22 conversion kit for my AR about 5 months ago. Some help that is, now that .22's are as hard to find as the rest. Put off buying the extra mags like Black Dogs (I think)---and now they are $$$ as well or out of stock. I do have about 1,000 rounds of .22's. I'll stick to dry fire and snap-caps for now.
