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If you're a new shooter then you wouldn't have had a reason to stock up in advance, and now you need to search for ammo and mags, which is unfortunate. As long as you don't start blaming "hoarders" or "price gougers" or anyone else, then I can sympathize. The good news is ammo can be found. It may cost more than a few months ago and you may waste more time than used to be required, but you can get it. In fact, with the right attitude, some of us might be helpful.

No flames from here. Buying a few months ago would have been better, but as the saying goes, better late than never.

The folks that didn't see the panic coming did not see the obvious. Nationwide there are 100 million gun owners and only 68 million people voted. That gives us at least 32 million gun owners who didn't show up. Since the vote was about 36 million to 32 million, if only a small portion of those no shows had shown up and voted based on the 2A, we would have a very different government today. So the folks who are gun owners and didn't vote also are people who did not see the obvious. The correlation between these two groups may not be perfect, but I suspect it is pretty good. To top it off, they think the fact that they didn't buy when they should have is someone else's fault!

I know that feeling. :-)

The one's that annoy me are the one's that didn't see the obvious (previously known a whiners) who want to blame someone else for the fact that they didn't see the obvious. If you didn't buy ammo when you should have it's your own fault, no one else's. Time to take responsibility for yourself and quit blaming others.

Congratulations!

State law says 1 month maximum. Prior to the chaos that generally meant 1 month minimum with the amount more varying by town. Now there are so many people applying that there really is a backup. The best thing to do is submit your application and go over it with the local officer handling it to make sure everything is right. That way you won't find out after a couple months that nothing has been done because you missed a box. Then wait the month and a few days. Call and politely inquire about the status. Whatever, they tell you give it that much and a couple days again. Call and politely ask again. Repeat until the whatever you're applying for emerges from the process.

Many of us did stock up before the craze. If all of us had voted we wouldn't have anything to whine about today. If you want to blame a subset of gun owners, rather than accepting responsibility for your own situation, blame the gun owners who didn't vote. I stocked up in advance. I voted. I dislike being called a hoarder and blamed for someone else's lack of ammo because they did neither.

Sounds like you saw it coming and acted accordingly. That's cool. :-)

I'm just sick of being called a hoarder for having the good sense to stock up in advance. I didn't think it took any great insight to see this coming. Meanwhile there were 68 million voters in the election and there are 100 million gun owners. Some idiot didn't vote, probably someone who didn't see what would be happening post election. I'd rather be called a troll than continue to hear about how hoarders are somehow responsible for what's happening.

I hope she recovers fully and that they catch the perps before they harm another senior.

Certainly. There are two types of gun owners participating in ammo threads all over the Internet. There are people who saw this coming and stocked up. These individuals voted and voted based in 2A issues. When the election went south, they stocked up futher. These are the people now referred to as "hoarders" by the other group who didn't see this coming, didn't stock up and didn't vote, but now want to blame someone else for their lack of vision. I'll call these folks "whiners". Bottom line. Your fellow gun owners aren't the cause of your problem finding ammo.

Wait until that's required for ammo too. :-(

Another non-voter identified.

If my doctor ever asks such a question I will politely ask him why he is asking, then I will explain the legal consequences if I ever learn that anything about guns is placed in my medical records, i.e. I will sue him. I will also explain that he runs the same risk with every gun owner he has as a patient.

Glockstore is having a lot of trouble handling the volume. Unfortunately the site does not indicate that they are out of stock and just accepts orders, resulting in them having orders they can't deliver on that just back up further and further. Their phones and email are flooded. If you are after magazines you would be better off trying another site. I never had a problem with them before the panic and don't want to badmouth them now, but I don't think they were prepared for the volume and perhaps still haven't figured out how to deal with it in the best way.

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I just sent them a message asking if the story is true. If they say yes, I'll boycott them. If they say no, it will give them a chance to reply with what is really going on.

If it isn't gone already, I'll take it off your hands. :-)

The value is pretty much unaffected by the counterbore. All of the Mosins we see here have been used, then refurbished which is when the counterbore would have been done, with any other repairs thought necessary at the time, covered in the grease they use instead of Cosmoline, then stored for decades, shipped here and had an importer's stamp hammered into them, etc. These are guns that have seen a lot of history, not something you expect to be in "original" condition. That history is part of the appeal. Maybe the one you have was in the Battle of Stalingrad? There are price differences for different models and years. Finns are worth more. Hex receivers are worth more than the round ones due to age and being less common. People try to collect different years, armories, etc. but unless you are really into collecting a bunch of these it won't matter.

When you get to speak to the Senate, please ask them where they intend to get the funds to buy all the magazines between 11-15 rounds that are circulating in NJ. By my estimate there are about $200 million worth of such magazines, but I might be low. They should also budget to pay for any ammo that gets banned and any guns that get banned. The total probably comes to about $1 billion that the state doesn't have. Then there are the direct costs of the new FIDs that are completely duplicative of existing IDs, not to mention that the things don't get turned around in the statutory time frame now. I could go on but you guys have heard it all. The point is this package of bills is expensive. They may not care about trampling our rights, but if they have to pay us, . . .

If you know how much you have,you don't have enough. :-)

Where have they been for the past 30 years?

I've had luck online by using the sites that will give you a notification when they get stuff in. You have to hop on it when you get the notice before they're out again, but if you're willing to do that you can get what you want.

Planes are hijack proof now due to two changes. 1) The cockpit doors are reinforced and would be very difficult to break through. 2) Passengers know that any hijacker is likely to kill them so they aren't going to just sit there. As a result, most of what TSA does is just for show. BTW: Before you respond, you should know that I was inside the World Trade Center when it was struck on 9/11/01.