Panic buying

 

 commander_zero  

 VERBATIM

Local gunshop had one of those big cylindrical drink coolers on their floor .. you know the kind, you see 'em at 7-11 filled with ice and a few bottles of pop in' em ... anyway, they had one that looked like a giant shotgun shell and it was filled with AR mags. Guy walks in, bought the whole darn thing. Every one of 'em. Go figure.
 
Other weirdness ... one of my vendors emailed me today that they somehow have come up with in 1000 Steyr AUG magazines. WTF? How do you just magically discover a bunch of AUG magazines in your warehouse? I suspect that almost anyone buying those will be buying them on speculation since the number of guns taking AUG mags is pretty low.
 
I'm getting tired of answering the phone here with people asking if I have any 5.56 ammo or ARs. Part of me wants to scream at them "You had eight years to buy them, dumb-ass!" The trickle down theory is in effect too .... No guns? Get mags! No mags? Get ammo! No ammo? Get components! No components? Get primers! Expect primer availability to plunge as well.
 
I've seen this movie before, back in '94, so I know what to expect. This is why when the ban sunsetted in '04 I tried to get everything I could. On some things, I did really well (like the 500 + G3 mags I have for our PTR rifles) and some things I wish I had more of (never enough Glock 9mm's.) 

But at least I'm not among the idiots who suddenly realized that there might really be an end to their availability of decent rifles.