What would you do with a Glock?

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okbohn

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There is a thread on an alternative to a Glock 17. I say the alternative is a baseball bat.

I went to Walmart yesterday to buy some ammo--Nothing. Nada. Zippo.

No 9mm
No 40mm
No 45

They didn't even have .22!

If you buy a gun, you have to club someone with it.
 
Yeah, it's tough to find ammo and I find myself buying in small quantities just to get by until bulk quantities are available. Whenever a dealer gets a new shipment in, it's gone in no time. Hopefully the madness will subside when people get over the sticker shock of our new president and his anti-gun cronies in Congress. :/
 
Educate yourself on your local polices and practices in regards to the issues.
Look into joining the N.R.A or other organizations that have your shared interests in mind. Or start your own group via web page, blog, local area meetings, etc. and inspire them to peruse the topic with what ever course they are capable of, but give direction and except direction.
Write articulate letters that adequately communicate your concerns to state representatives, MAKE IT CLEAR and CONSISE. Express what you are wanting and by what means; as well as what they are going to get for their actions. Look to the past revolutionary’s, what did they do correct and what did they do that may have been ineffective in furthering their cause. For Real, the only reason that we will lose our ability to freely pursue desires, beliefs, rights and Truths is by allowing ourselves to be stripped of the fore mentioned!
So don’t be apathetic; nor should you wait for another to do your duty to fore father and future!
 
I went to wally world and picked up 3 boxes of 9mm(Blazer) is all they had in stock...& I grabbed 2 boxes of .223(again all they had) I did see several 40 & 45 boxes maybe 6-8 per caliber... I talked to the lady and she told me new shipments on Tuesdays and has one guy waiting on her with a shopping basket and buys $1K worth of ammo 2x a month,every month.... I was like that bastard...
 
I have plenty of ammo. Both guns and ammo are still in abundance here in Atlanta. :p My only gripe is that prices have gone up- way up. A flat-top Bushmaster AR that would have cost $700 a year ago will run you at least $1,200 now. There are plenty of them around at least. I think there are more ARs on the shelves at the gun stores now than there were before the election. Say what you will about Obama (I'm not a big fan), but he's been a blessing to the gun industry- so far.

Ammo is less plentiful, and more expensive, but I've been lucky enough to get everything I need.

What would I do with a Glock? Feed it lead. Take it to the range, carry it around, sleep with it under my pillow, and if necessary, use it to put big holes in anyone who threatens me or my loved ones.

If you're having trouble finding ammo locally, you can always buy online.
 
I'm glad that I started stocking up on ammo a couple of years ago. I have been using points that was earned on my Cabelas & Gander Mtn. credit cards to get ammo.

I have been checking at our local Wal Mart for the last three weeks & they have been out of ALL pistol & regular .22 ammo (they had 5-6 boxes of .22 mag the last time I was there).
 
I was busy and didn't look at the other thread and didn't know that it was about ammo shortages and what you would do, etc.

Now is the time to become intimately acquainted with the other stuff you like and perhaps other things you don't...meaning knives and sticks, respectively.

Get a couple of Kelly Worden DVDs from Paladin Press and view them carefully and when you have done that a few times, find a Filipino Martial Arts (FMA) School in your area and if during the intro, they are not doing stuff like Kelly is doing, find another FMA School. :)

It's not hard to do, it's not rocket science and it's great exercise and you can do it like step aerobics if you want to and if you want something you can give your wife that she will always have with her...that would be the thing.
 
I've got about a thousand rounds of 9mm and I've all but stopped shooting, saving it for when it's really needed.

Got a few thousand rounds of 12ga. birdshot, 00, 000 but I only have about 2 dozen slugs and I need to save them for the piggies. (Boar, not police)

I'm considering starting to reload.
 
Well, I think if anyone waited this long to buy just-in-case ammo then they didn't need a gun to start with!
 
Strange days.

Similar to what Dale did, we started seriously building stock 24 months ago when everyone was saying that prices were too high to even consider doing that. As it turns out, we made a smart play (for us, anyway).

Trying to find ammo locally is either a drop-the-soap proposition :o or downright futile. Our online sources have all but dried up, rarely offering more than offshore box-o'-squibs stuff. Even one of our relatives who owns a small gun shop now sells ammo only for use at his indoor range, and reloads at that.

We'd like to add another platform or two, but that'd mean stocking up on additional calibers of ammo that are seldom available or prohibitively expensive. We're standing pat for the foreseeable future.

Because we agree with Col. Jeff Cooper -- "You are no more armed because you own a gun than you are a musician because you own a piano" -- we're still committed to getting trigger time. Dead skills aren't an option. We buy for the range, pay what it costs and preserve our stock.

If we stumble onto a sweet deal, hardware or software, we consider it. For the most part, however, we're pretty much rolling with what we have now.
 
KintlaLake said:
Because we agree with Col. Jeff Cooper -- "You are no more armed because you own a gun than you are a musician because you own a piano" -- we're still committed to getting trigger time. Dead skills aren't an option. We buy for the range, pay what it costs and preserve our stock.
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That Cooper quotes was actually my signature line here on Bladeforums a long time ago. While I agree with it, I disagree that if you don't burn rounds up constantly that your skills will perish. For one thing, that's a personal matter and everyone is different. Then there are other things you can do to compensate for that lack of shooting, etc.
 
R.A.T. said:
Well, I think if anyone waited this long to buy just-in-case ammo then they didn't need a gun to start with!
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True.

But like I pointed out on another forum, not all of us were old enough to buy ammo back with it was cheap and plentiful.
 
Don Rearic said:
That Cooper quotes was actually my signature line here on Bladeforums a long time ago. While I agree with it, I disagree that if you don't burn rounds up constantly that your skills will perish. For one thing, that's a personal matter and everyone is different. Then there are other things you can do to compensate for that lack of shooting, etc.
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Don, I agree 100%. :cool:
 
KintlaLake said:
"You are no more armed because you own a gun than you are a musician because you own a piano"
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I agree with the spirit of the quote but I would still not like to have a shotgun pointed at me, even by someone who has never fired a shot. :eek:
 
okbohn said:
...1000 rounds of 9mm and 1500 .223...
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Poser.

:D

Seriously, back on availability, I'm kinda with Jeff on this. ;) The missus and I were talking last night about where we'd be now if we hadn't made our move when we did. :rolleyes:

Maybe the only hardware we've got our eye on at the moment is the S&W M&P 15-22. It's not out yet, but it's set to retail at $499. Since we're fat on .22LR, we think it might be a way to reduce the cost of range time without sacrificing familiarity with one particular manual-of-arms.
 
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