we have repeatedly heard about the 'assault weapons ban' cry and how evil guns are and every argument against them for years. Something new that is disconcerting to me is that they are now crying 'Who needs more than 1 gun?' 'Noone should be allowed to own 10, 20 or 50 guns'. Also when they start calling a person extreme when they have 1000 rounds of ammo. I forsee tracking of ammunition purchases at a federal level coming soon to a Wally World near you. Help them figure out who is really the radicals to watch!
Yeah, I’ve heard a lot of that recently too. My response is that the firearm “owner” who only has one or two guns is probably more likely to use it. Let’s rememebr half of all gun deaths are gang related. I could be wrong, but I doubt most gang members have multiple guns.
Plus I bet most collectors are again more likely to respect their firearms and not have purchased them to run around killing people.
Most of the mass shooters, they don’t own 30 guns, they own 1 or 2. Obviously exceptions to this, but many of them bought a gun or two within a few weeks of commuting a mass shooting. Not that they’ve owned and been collecting guns for years.
I try to educate them on the ammo that having 10k rounds isn’t weird. 22lr is cheap, doesn’t take up much space and you absolutely can shoot a lot of it in one range trip. Hell, I don’t get to the range that often, but I still go through probably 2-2.5k (count, not $) ammo a year between 22lr, 7.5/8# shot shells and centerfire stuff. Sure, vast majority is 22lr and shot shells.
I tend to buy my ammo a few hundred rounds at a time to save money, especially when there is a sale. Driving to Walmart or my LGS every time I want to go shoot clays or go to the range would be a HUGE pain in the butt.
That usually comes up when I hear “we should limit gun owners to only have a box of ammo” or “gun owners should only be able to have one magazine and the rest has to be secured at a shooting range”. That BS usually comes from people who obviously don’t know shit about guns. Compared to”gun traitors” who shot their Dad’s gun growing up on the farm and they’ve had granddad’s shotgun in a closet for a decade collecting dust. But they are a gun owner and endorse this disarmament message (IE they know a little more than **** nothing, but not a lot more).
Sorry, the crap I’ve seen spouted the last couple of weeks has been pissing me off how ignorant it is and I needed to vent a little to like minded individuals.