Better Stock Up Again

[D2Cat]

This time there is no indication of what specifically to purchase because EVERY THING is being effected. When everyone gets to the point of crying "uncle" perhaps some of the up to now won't work solutions to this covid problem will be promoted.

Have a friend who load grain into containers to be shipped (to China). His work is restricted because they do not have enough containers. Empty containers are being shipped back!

ZeroHedge

ZeroHedge - On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero

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[GeoHorn]

D2Cat, isn’t the real problem the lack of SHIPS? Not containers? We’ve been buying so much chineese stuff over the last decade....but NOT selling much TO CHINA... and that is why steel shipping containers have become so popular and for sale here in the U.S. For all sorts of repurposed reasons. It’ cheaper for China to mfr new containers than it is to ship empty containers back to china... we buy THEIR stuff...but they don’t buy OURs. The containers come here but fewer return with merchandise.

That is also what the link indicates.... it’s a situation of incoming loaded ships sitting at anchor... it’s not a lack of containers here.

 

[D2Cat]

The problem is getting the incoming ships unloaded. Too many sick workers, and then they have to quarantine.

 

[Henro]

The problem is getting the incoming ships unloaded. Too many sick workers, and then they have to quarantine.

I don't know. Seems like toilet paper is not an issue now...

But my lack of worrying may be abnormal...

 

[Daren Todd]

Guns are starting to pop back up in stores again Good luck on ammo for them though

We stopped by academy sports today. While there i always wonder over to the gun section. We've been looking for the exact same model as my Sig 40 in a 9mm for my wife for 3 years now.

Wife was boot shopping when I went on a wander through the gun section. They were actually fairly well stocked back up on pistols. And low and behold, there was the exact model Sig 9mm we have been looking for So I called my wife and told her I was in the process of purchasing a new gun and to come find me when she got done shopping Momma got a new gun for Valentines day

 

[Nicfin36]

Guns are starting to pop back up in stores again Good luck on ammo for them though

We stopped by academy sports today. While there i always wonder over to the gun section. We've been looking for the exact same model as my Sig 40 in a 9mm for my wife for 3 years now.

Wife was boot shopping when I went on a wander through the gun section. They were actually fairly well stocked back up on pistols. And low and behold, there was the exact model Sig 9mm we have been looking for So I called my wife and told her I was in the process of purchasing a new gun and to come find me when she got done shopping Momma got a new gun for Valentines day

Nice! That's a good gift! I was in Academy Sports a few days ago to buy some crappie jig heads. Out of curiosity, I walked down towards the gun section. I saw a few long guns on the racks, but not many, and I did not even go over to the counter to look at handguns. I glanced at the ammo section, and there is none, but they have filled some of the shelves with lock boxes.

 

[Daren Todd]

Nice! That's a good gift! I was in Academy Sports a few days ago to buy some crappie jig heads. Out of curiosity, I walked down towards the gun section. I saw a few long guns on the racks, but not many, and I did not even go over to the counter to look at handguns. I glanced at the ammo section, and there is none, but they have filled some of the shelves with lock boxes.

They have been down to 3 or 4 options on the pistols. And crappy options at best. So it was a nice surprise that they had a decent selection today. Although that selection is flying off the shelf with similar stories as mine. "Been looking for this model for a few years and it's been out of stock"

Ammo is being stored in the back room at the moment. They've been having to many issues with shoplifting.

Although all they had for 9mm shells were target rounds which we have plenty of. They are out of the PP rounds. I'll have to swing by an actual gun shop to pick some up. Or else, just order some online.

They had a few long guns and a few shotguns on the rack.

 

[skeets]

I hit the local hock shop the other day coming back from a Doc visit, now this fellow normally has more firearms than the gun stores and he shows up at the gun shows, when we use to have them. Anyways he and NADA selection, a couple old shotguns and a couple hand guns. While I was there a guy came in with a couple boxes of ammo, yep they bought them. I asked why they were buying ammo. The guy told me he moves guns through like water, but he cant get ammo from the suppliers so he buys ammo and re sells it. Being a pawn shop one would think, good prices right,, NOPE ,, he is rapping people just like every one else. He said guns are just a fancy paper weight with out ammo,,, and yes he was right

 

[dirtydeed]

Guns are starting to pop back up in stores again Good luck on ammo for them though

We stopped by academy sports today. While there i always wonder over to the gun section. We've been looking for the exact same model as my Sig 40 in a 9mm for my wife for 3 years now.

Wife was boot shopping when I went on a wander through the gun section. They were actually fairly well stocked back up on pistols. And low and behold, there was the exact model Sig 9mm we have been looking for So I called my wife and told her I was in the process of purchasing a new gun and to come find me when she got done shopping Momma got a new gun for Valentines day

here's an alternative that doesn't require NICS check:

 

[GeoHorn]

I hit the local hock shop the other day coming back from a Doc visit, now this fellow normally has more firearms than the gun stores and he shows up at the gun shows, when we use to have them. Anyways he and NADA selection, a couple old shotguns and a couple hand guns. While I was there a guy came in with a couple boxes of ammo, yep they bought them. I asked why they were buying ammo. The guy told me he moves guns through like water, but he cant get ammo from the suppliers so he buys ammo and re sells it. Being a pawn shop one would think, good prices right,, NOPE ,, he is rapping people just like every one else. He said guns are just a fancy paper weight with out ammo,,, and yes he was right

I never buy ammo except from KNOWN sources/providers. The reason is because of a bad situation created when handloads of unknown origin blew up a pistol right-beside me at the range. A “squib” load apparently had lodged a bullet in the barrel of the shooters .44 and the next round split the barrel, sent the ramp-sight thru the tin-roof of the bench, and the shooters left hand was cut so badly it appeared he might lose a finger. (Don’t know the eventual outcome .... EMS took him to the ER and the range shut-down for the day.) It was said that he’d bought the ammo from the range who sold reloads created by an outside vendor.

In a different incident, I had some Federal .22LR ammo that often split the cases at the rim. The splits did not occur at the firing-pin indentation... they occurred randomly and at first were only a curiosity. They would fail to eject in a bolt action and in a Marlin 60 they would jam the action. They were red-box “Lightning” from Federal that I’d swapped for with an unknown visitor at a gun-show.
When I contacted Federal I was informed the entire “Lot” (identified on the end-flap of each box) had been “re-called” the previous year due to brittle brass caused by exposure to ammonia. (To Federals credit they replaced the entire supply I’d acquired and even paid the UPS shipping.) But the lesson learned by me was to buy only ammo from known suppliers.