and stack it deep

AND STACK IT DEEP

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Twenty years ago, when it seemed that the Peace Dividend was a real thing, when former Soviet oil gushers combined with newly opened Chinese factories, when our economy was doing so well we gave Clinton a pass on his/her nonsense, you could easily stockpile for the Apocalypse in relative ease.  You could afford payments on Idaho land, with a job to go along with it, and you could stock your retreat with decent quality very cheap Wal-Mart goods.  If you didn’t always have the best luck buying your super deluxe semi-auto carbine of choice, you sure could buy the hell out of ammunition.  You could Buy It Cheap And Stock It Deep.  My, how times have changed.  You still need to stack ammo deep, but you can forget it being cheap.  Today, as a reward for slogging through quite a bit of anthropology, evolutionary biology and politics, I reward you with that rare and elusive gun/ammo article.  Nothing quite stirs the bubbling pot of liquid fecal matter as talking guns or chainsaws.

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You could make the case with firearms that, adjusted for inflation, they are much cheaper than twenty years ago.  Of course, a lot of that had to do with artificial scarcity brought on by the Clinton Ban.  But even so, really, if you want an AR they are barely above prices even thirty years ago.  Nine mil autos are cheaper than dirt ( perhaps due to many more imports? ).  If there is adequate competition due to demand, right now for a small window of time it is a buyers market in a few select military type weapons.  Everything else seems to be a mixed bag.  Reproduction black powder arms are way up, even with Indian production and an Italian economy suffering.  You would think the price would decrease.  Any wood in the design seems to increase the price substantially ( although, granted, that would be more of a design demand deficit rather than a material shortages ).  Right now, even after the Clinton nomination, I think we are seeing a glut in some guns due to everyone jumping into the supply side over the last few years.  Who knows how long it will last.  Other firearms in less demand don’t have the economics of scale and must cost more to produce. 

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But ammunition is certainly not following suite.  Increased demand and production on plastic firearms is one thing.  Plastic is still the go-to material for everything whenever possible.  And anyone can start a company putting together AR parts.  Due to demand many companies are producing those.  But with ammunition, the technology scale is too steep for small shops to get into the game.  A few big companies churn out ammo.  And their commodity constraints are far more severe than the firearms companies.  They are more directly bidding against global demand.  Now, again, if you adjust for inflation ammunition isn’t all that bad of a price.  But there are far less of us working now, and those jobs pay less with less hours in the week, and with far more expensive budgetary items competing for the remaining dollars than previous ( what has medical insurance gone up?  Three times?  Four? ).  It is like with oil.  Sure, the price is really down.  And nobody can afford it because there is no money coming in to buy the products that oil will construct.

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But you still need ammo, don’t you?  You will be at such a disadvantage militarily without it that not having it is not an option.  You certainly don’t need more ammunition to burn off quickly.  You need it because your descendents also need to be armed.  If you go around blowing off 1% of your rounds every time some idiot yells “cover me!”, you won’t have enough ammunition to last anywhere close to your lifetime, let alone your grandkids.  Your ammo supply is not meant for firefights, primarily, as ascertained by all the 2^nd Generational Warfare  General Guru’s out there, small people with small penises thinking small thoughts to accompany their small person complexes.  These are the same people that cheered on the burning of all our petroleum, not as investments for the future but as a mere consumer item to enrich themselves.  How hard is it to understand the word “finite”?  I mean, you can buy a dictionary at the thrift store for fifty cents or use the one on your word processor.  Or even Google it. 

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Do not guzzle your ammunition supply in an orgy of noise and panic, thinking that your enemies will be decimated merely because you fill the air with lead.  Sip it with ambushes and self defense and hunting.  Guerilla warfare, and being smart enough to avoid the worst places to live.  If your ammunition supply is FINITE, that means you must conserve.  I know, how un-American!  Believe it or not, you actually fight how you are armed.  If the factories back home produce all the ammunition you can waste, you can use ammunition as a substitute for other tactics.  If there will be no more ammunition, change your tactics to reflect that.  The semi-auto ammunition wasting crowd ( all the survival gurus and 99% of survivalists ) can’t understand FINITE and CONSERVE.  They are incapable of escaping that thought process.  And they are still fighting Second Generational warfare ( with its “infantry holds, artillery destroys” ) rather than Forth ( which is “guerilla” ).

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Your children and grandchildren can have military superiority due to your foresight, or they can return quickly to primitive weaponry because of your refusal to accept anything other than conventional thinking.  You aren’t hurting my feelings here, making sweet love to your AR and your combat carry of 200 rounds.  You are hurting your family.  I’m just the messenger, dudes.  Stock ammo deep, then don’t waste it, so your descendents may be armed with superior weapons.

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