Nothing to do with Biden and everything to do with scared dumb-asses buying up everything. "Biden gonna take my guns so I gotta buy more guns". Dumbasses. I pretty much had to quit shooting and hold on to what I have because panic buying has made the cost prohibitive.
Seems to me like buying up all the ammo you can before it becomes unavailable, is not "dumbassery".
It's really quite smart. The only "dumbasses" are the ones who didn't prepare in advance.
Wanna buy some 9mm? How's $1 a round sound? I do take Paypal.
I'm fine. It's just ridiculous how well gun and ammo manufacturers have the gun nutters trained to pay whatever ridiculous price they charge based on a fear of something that will never happen.
Seeing how you bitched about the price and that you'd be willing to pay it, wouldn't you be a "gun nutter" too?
What do you have in store? Two boxes of 50 rounds? Four boxes? Do you even know how fast that would get burned up in a firefight?
A firefight with who? the government? Pretty sure they have more and better. I like to shoot but what separates me from gun nutters is that I have no fear that government is going to take them away, I do not see them as some kind of political statement and I have a realistic view of their necessity and utility as protection. They are simply my most expensive and least used tools.
No, not the government. They're the last ones you need to worry about. If the shit hits the fan, they're all going to be hunkered down at home with their own families.
What you'd really need to be concerned about would be roving gangs of desperate hungry people whose SNAP cards no longer work, willing to kill you for whatever morsel of food, bottled water, or anything else of value that you might have.
What would it take? We are not as strong as a country as we think we are. Suppose the power grid is attacked: It would take approximately five days before all hell breaks loose. Water would become unavailable in most cities, stores would be emptied out within the first two days. No power, no lights, no heat, no gasoline, no radio, no television, no internet.
That's some serious shit we're talking about and yes, even though we're the most powerful country in the world, it could happen here.
I agree. However, if the most repressive COVID restrictions come to fruition then good, patriotic Americans might find themselves forced to resist this level of tyranny. Most gun owners would be killed, as even local SRT/SWAT units train to breach and shoot to kill on at least a weekly basis. Most gun owners will also hesitate if faced with a COVID SWAT team kicking down their doors; SWAT shooters WILL NOT hesitate. The good news? Local, state and federal tactical weapons teams are programmed to follow specific breach and clear training protocols which do no lend themselves to modification or variation on the fly, thus they can be exploited—if one knows how. Alas, let us hope such days never arrive.
Hard to plan ops on zero sleep. And it's hard to sleep when you live amongst the people you are attacking.
We went sleepless for two weeks on many occasions, save for naps on our feet or with our heads bouncing around the back of armored vehicles, some guys getting concussions that way, even with their k pots on. I'd be smoking, dipping Kodiak and doing raw ground coffee on the other side of my lip—all at the same time, asking myself if I had just taken a chew or should do another one yet. We called it "refried"; consciousness like the blandness of refried bean paste. But when contacts came, no matter how refried we were, we got pretty frosty pretty quick.
Shooting someone, or rather shooting at them and hitting them, is not a process of deep thought or long contemplation. If a shooter is sitting there thinking about how to shoot at and hit the enemy, then he or she needs to go back to school and is very likely about to get plugged. Shooting at
and hitting the enemy is all muscle memory—from point blank out to about five hundred meters. If a shooter doesn't have that muscle memory, if it is missing from their finger, arm, neck and eye muscles, then they probably aren't gonna be very effective—but that's most line unit guys (and gals now) anyway, save for Marine Riflemen. But if you're doing five hours a day in breach and clear in kill houses or on move and shoot range sessions, building and building that muscle memory, then when you get your first live contact, that memory should see you through. Don't think, shoot. Don't
think about how to aim, shoot. Don't fixate on one target if even that's all there is; just shoot and scan and and move and repeat. turtling up in defilade is an enemy grenade's wet dream, an RPG's orgasm.
Of course, we were talking about things happening back in the world, here, right? Easy to forget sometimes.