Nom de plume: Rivrdog

Ammolert

Obama snoozed, he loses*, so now we can shoot our comblock 7.62X39 rifles for a quarter per bang.

Far cry from the 9 cents per bang of just 3 years ago, but given the ammo shortage, it's good news. Fresh ammo too, non-corrosive.

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* Our prexy/rexy could have banned importation of Russ ammo with a stroke of his pen, no Congress involved, but for some unexplainable reason (rubles in pocket, maybe?) he hasn't done that.

Ammolert, sorta

Yeah, there's ammo.

Nope, you can't afford to shoot it.

But, the folks at CTD will be able to eat a lobster lunch if you buy some of theirs.

What, you don't WANT them to eat lobster for lunch?

Gun cleaning supplies are still reasonable. Clean them again.

President Obama to violate his Oath of Office, sign UN Treaty on Small Arms

...on June 3rd, if Breitbart.com is to be believed, according to a FB friend of mine who I trust (and did when I was a cop, since he was a Sergeant of mine).

Obama, a supposed-Constitutional Scholar, will sign the UN's small-arms trade Treaty, the same treaty which refutes our Second Amendment. For those who just morphed from worms into humans in American soil, we have the ONLY National Constitution which give individuals the Right to Keep and Bear Arms as a Civil Right. The UN Treaty was made for the other 160 or so Nations which disallow their citizens that Right and thereby impede their Human Right of self-defense.

By signing the Treaty, and then asking the Senate to ratify it (which will NOT happen until the Obama Reich is declared and in effect), President Obama will have created Probable Cause for his arrest for Treason.

Punditry: Immediately after signing the Treaty, even though it has not even been ratified, the President will announce he is putting some of it's provisions in effect via other means, such as his authority to regulate Commerce. The immediate effect of this will be to cut off all imports of military-surplus guns into the USA, and the ammo for them as well. Probably the parts also. Now, the President could do this now by invoking Commerce clauses and get away with it, and I've wondered why he hasn't, but the obvious reason is doing a "fait accompli" for the UN Treaty: by invoking it's language, he will appear to have, by himself, invoked the treaty, and will try to sell it to the Senate as an already-accomplished fact.

Cheaper AR out there

Yep, Cheaper Than Dirt has a DPMS AR, shootable but stripped, for $899 before fees. That's only a $200 bump over the same gun's price a year ago. Best price I've seen in six months. You would still have to buy BUIS, rail covers and an optic for it, but you could probably get it in your door ready for the field for $1200.

On that same page is NOT Cheaper Than Dirt's ammo selection of the day, including some NOT-match .308 WIN ammo for $2/round, and some NOT-match .223/5.56 ammo for a buck a round. No thanks.

Ammolert

Check out Bulkammo.com for their deal on .40S&W (except if you live in Joisey, can't have JHP there). Remington Golden Saber 180 is some of the best JHP in that caliber, and finding it at less than a buck a round is impressive. $20/25rds is a good deal today. They only have 64 boxes left as of this writing though.

CTD blinks?

Verrrry interrresting....

Got this email today from CTD, and they are offering FREE! shipping with firearms. Could it be that their sales are not up to projections? Could it be that their predatory shipping prices/policies are finally coming home to roost?

One can only hope...

Another CTD growl

Check out this ad, particularily the .223 ammo price that is supposed to be such a bargain.

Has my memory totally gone south, or is that ammo price somewhere north of twice as high as it was last Fall? A buck and a half a round for .223? WTF, over?

Also, a 20-round box of TulAmmo 7.62X39 used to sell for under $5, if memory serves, so that stuff has tripled in price.

None of this affects me personally, since I still don't have a rifle in the poodleshooter caliber, and I already have a, ummmm, "sufficient" quantity of 7.62X39, but just for shits and grins, perhaps CTD would like to show us an invoice or two thousand and ease our suspicious minds that they are not the proverbial pirates they seem to be.

Ammolert: 12-ga 00B

Here, at J&G Sales. Two rounds for a buck is a decent price, even a bargain, and there ain't many of those these days. Feed that Saiga S-12 what it wants to eat and spit.

Read it and weep

Weep for your lost hobby of shooting practice. Weep for the fact that your compadres, and patriots everywhere, will not be able to practice much with their guns. Weep again that few will be able to afford the new prices of guns.

Item: Note this CDNN advert. There is actually an AR-15 advertised in it! Good. That means that the pipeline for ARs is beginning to show some life. The Bad news? The reason you have that crying towel in hand? Look at the price. Last November, this same AR was selling for half that price, if I recall. In that short period of time, inflation is NOT a factor.

Item: Look at the Cheaper Than Dirt advert. Note the ammo prices. Defense loadings for 45 ACP at $1.75 per round? You've got to be kidding me. I USED to be able to buy Federal Gold Medal Match for .308 Winchester for that. In the same advert, PNW practice ammo for the 45 ACP is a seventy cents a round. I'm supposed to expend $200 bucks for a modest practice session?

What's going to happen here is that people are not going to practice. When they don't practice, bad habits creep in to their gun handling techniques, and bad habits + loaded guns = accidentally DEAD people. A rising gun accident rate, of course, is fodder for more gun laws, range restrictions, etc.

If there WERE any reloading components available, we could see just how much price-gouging is involved in this apparent doubling of the price of ammunition almost overnight. I'm sure that there's some gouging, but I can't quantify it. I'm guessing that everyone in the industry figured out that that they can hide behind "the law of supply and demand", which law is not really even definable because of so many other economic factors, regulations, tarriffs, etc. Every time I get on my gunny High Horse about price gouging, some commenters will try to remind me of "the law of supply and demand".

I remind those who tolerate this price-gouging that the "law of supply and demand" is outdated, has been replaced by engineered markets, etc, and doesn't apply any more, to ANY commodity. Need more proof: look at pricing in the Oil Business. With per-barrel prices hovering in the low $90s, gasoline ought to be selling for the low $3 range, maybe $3.25. Instead, it's edging up toward $4. Why? Because they can.

So, why have gun and ammo prices doubled in 5 months? Because they can. Just don't give me "supply and demand", because I might have to point out to you that your trousers are aflame.

Fotay found

Half an hour ago, I got an email from CDNN Sports, a fine TX outfit I have done a lot of biz with. They have some .40 S&W, Winchester Ranger, 180-gr TMJ. Case lot sale, $250/case, phone orders only to   1-800-588-9500.

Be prepared for a few busy signals. Took me 8 tries to get through.