Don’t forget, it’s National Ammo Day. Stop by the gun store or Dicks Sporting Goods (there is one at the Dulles Town Center) or WalMart or wherever and purchase a few boxes of ammo.
The goal of National Ammo Day is to empty the ammunition from the shelves of your local gun store, sporting goods, or hardware store and put that ammunition in the hands of law-abiding citizens. Make your support of the Second Amendment known–by voting with your dollars!
Actually, in my book every day is Ammo Day, but we should all be doing our part this week to send that message.
UPDATE: The inimitable Ben Dover took my advice and stops by to relate his experience, below the fold:
Joe – I took your advice and headed over to Dick’s at the Dulles Town Center. Before actually entering Dick’s, I decided to have a few pops at the Cheesecake Factory, because in my estimation, there’s no better way to purchase ammo than with a few cold ones under your belt (if you know what I mean). Also, in my experience it always freaks out the person behind the counter when your purchasing ammo, and they can smell a trace of alcohol on your breath. For added entertainment, I like to mumble a little bit – just makes them wonder what the hell you’re actually saying.
Anyway, I bought quite a bit of ammo – Remington mostly – Premier AccuTip Bonded Sabot Slugs (8 boxes), and some Slugger High Velocity Slugs (8 boxes), and then I also loaded up on some Semi-Jacketed Hollow Points for my .357 and my 9mm (I was going to get 10 boxes (5 for each) but said, “What the hell?” and bought 20 (10 each), and then I wrapped up my shopping trip with 10 boxes of Core-Lokt for my 12 Guage (on which I have mounted a “Street Sweeper” Magazine – always draws a few stares when I go deer hunting).
So, as you can see, it was quite the little shopping venture. Anyway, when I was done, I went back over to the restaurant and set my bags on the bar, and ordered another round (no pun intended!) – but the lady behind the bar accidentally knocked my bags and let me tell you – ordinance went everywhere! All over the floor. And the looks on the faces of people in the vicinity – well, it was priceless. I don’t think many of those folks have seen THAT MUCH AMMO in one place at one time. Then, after I cleaned up everything and asked the guy next to me if he’d like a “shot” (get it…..shot!). I thought he was going to fall off that bar stool until I said, “Damn it, man….I’m talking about Whiskey!” Good times, I tell you….good times.
Just like it always goes for me.
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“put that ammunition in the hands of law-abiding citizens”
…who leave it hanging around their kitchen tables thereby effectively shifting the ammo into the hands of criminals and the mentally disturbed…
“…empty the shelves…”
What’s with you, anyway?
Question: Is it necessary to show a permit to carry a weapon in order to buy ammo, or can just anyone go in and empty the shelves?
Do criminals and the mentally disturbed people hang around in people’s kitchens looking for ammo? I would certainly ask them to leave, as a matter of fact, I’m not sure how they are getting in – but they will not get my ammo!
Eric, if the crowd you run with has ammo laying all over the place maybe you just need to pick different friends.
Troll,
Why do you only show up around here when “guns” are mentioned? I thought that after the last time we talked that you were only worried about people having to “test” before buying/using a weapon? Seems you just don’t like guns but I understand. People are always scared about things they know nothing about or haven’t been told the truth.
Just make sure you buy the reloadable ammunition FIRST! As Dan and others have told me, it’s cheaper to reload the same brass 5 or 6 times plus you get to do something else while you are watching/listening to the Obama report.
Joe the Bud
Hate to be picky (actually I love it) but ammo is not “laying” around. You might be laying somebody or something, but ammo isn’t laying anything!
An obsession with grammar that borders on the perverse!
To answer your question: No you don’t need a special license to buy ammo in VA, you may have to show a drivers license to prove you’re an adult but that is about it.
NoVisa,
“You might be laying somebody or something,”
You naughty girl, you. What are you doing this Saturday night?
#9
That means that I can buy up a large amount of ammo and sell it without anybody knowing to whom I’m selling it?
Ammo Resale – Sounds like a nice little business sideline!
Joe – I took your advice and headed over to Dick’s at the Dulles Town Center. Before actually entering Dick’s, I decided to have a few pops at the Cheesecake Factory, because in my estimation, there’s no better way to purchase ammo than with a few cold ones under your belt (if you know what I mean). Also, in my experience it always freaks out the person behind the counter when your purchasing ammo, and they can smell a trace of alcohol on your breath. For added entertainment, I like to mumble a little bit – just makes them wonder what the hell you’re actually saying.
Anyway, I bought quite a bit of ammo – Remington mostly – Premier AccuTip Bonded Sabot Slugs (8 boxes), and some Slugger High Velocity Slugs (8 boxes), and then I also loaded up on some Semi-Jacketed Hollow Points for my .357 and my 9mm (I was going to get 10 boxes (5 for each) but said, “What the hell?” and bought 20 (10 each), and then I wrapped up my shopping trip with 10 boxes of Core-Lokt for my 12 Guage (on which I have mounted a “Street Sweeper” Magazine – always draws a few stares when I go deer hunting).
So, as you can see, it was quite the little shopping venture. Anyway, when I was done, I went back over to the restaurant and set my bags on the bar, and ordered another round (no pun intended!) – but the lady behind the bar accidentally knocked my bags and let me tell you – ordinance went everywhere! All over the floor. And the looks on the faces of people in the vicinity – well, it was priceless. I don’t think many of those folks have seen THAT MUCH AMMO in one place at one time. Then, after I cleaned up everything and asked the guy next to me if he’d like a “shot” (get it…..shot!). I thought he was going to fall off that bar stool until I said, “Damn it, man….I’m talking about Whiskey!” Good times, I tell you….good times.
BULLY FOR YOU, Ben Dover.
Bet you’re feeling great tonight. Have another!
Beer on breath – buying ammo. It’s the American Way!
Ben, you made my evening.
Lovisa, yes I suppose you could “buy up a large amount of ammo and sell it without anybody knowing to whom I’m selling it” but would you really want to? Pretty much anybody could just go buy it from the same source themselves, right? So unless you have a lot of free time on your hands and are looking for human interaction, there really would not be much reason for you to do so. There certainly would not be a lot of profit in it.
Now if your point is you could just go sell it to 9 year old boys, well, yes you could. Just like you could sell them whiskey, and probably just as illegal if not more so.
Just tweeking you, Act. I simply haven’t been around for a while and I read the thread over at TC about the crazy Pentacostal preacher in Sterling with the 20 yo virgin bride and immediately thought of you guys – figured I’d drop by. Its not that I show up only when you are drolling over guns, its just that you guys are always drolling over guns so the odds are pretty good it will be a topic when I drop in -didn’t let me down either.
Ben, sounded like you had a blast tonight!!
Joe, when I was 9, I not only could buy ammo at the hardware store, I also took my 22 rifle to school with me, so I could hunt squirrel on the way home.
Damn, you could, really? Boy things must have been so much better back in 1877!
Funny guy!!
It was closer to 1970.
How much closer?
My wife remembers the kids she was “baby sitting” (the mom was on bed rest, she was doing a lot of help for them while living there) knew at 9 how to handle a shotgun, and that was in the 80’s if my memory serves me (I robbed the cradle, she is much younger than I).
In any case, it *should* be routine that young folk are trained how to shoot and hunt.
Eric,
Most people I know have ammunition in some way shape or form kept squirreled away in either ammunition boxes, ventilated cabinets, or locked closets.
Lovisa,
If I walk into Walmart, I can buy just about any ammunition I would want for target shooting and if I pay cash, I don’t even have to show ID (being over 50 with enough gray to be “carded” is at least a little advantage). Even if they do check (I have to thank the younger register jockeys for that) they don’t record it anywhere, so there is little to no reason for someone to start a “black market” in ammunition in this country.
Well I was also 9 in 1970 but over yonder suburb where I was raised there were barely any of us carrying rifles to school, nary a one.
All you would-be gunslingers, listen up! As you speak, there is an interesting war going on. A total of 92 merchant ships attacked in the Gulf of Aden by Somali pirates so far in 2008. The Gulf of Aden has become the modern-day Barbary Coast.
Who has struck back the hardest? The guys from India, that’s who. Bunch of pirates tried to take an Indian oil tanker recently and had their butts whipped by the Indian frigate INS Tabar which was riding shotgun. They sank the pirate “mother ship” and chased off the remaining scoundrels. Go, India!!! Now, where in the blankety-blank are the rest of the world’s navies, including our own????
“Most people I know have ammunition in some way shape or form kept squirreled away in either ammunition boxes, ventilated cabinets, or locked closets.”
What good is that going to do them, Brian? They should keep one in the chamber under their bed (or better yet on the side table). That way when their kid sneaks in late…er, I mean the local slasher breaks in…well I’m sure you can fill in the rest….
Troll,
That’s why the first rule is to know your target (and what’s behind it). But if someone is stupid enough to shoot his kid, so what? Sort of Retroactive Darwinism, don’cha think?
“if someone is stupid enough to shoot his kid, so what?”
The gun lobby in a nutshell. Yes, it would be great if you guys just shot each other. Unfortunately, you also shoot your kids and other innocent bystanders. Pro-life, indeed.
And zimzo is the idiot left in a NUTshell — no sense of humor, and no regard for facts.
And furthermore….Zimnut is PISSED beyond belief, because should there be a movement to collect those weapons, he and every liberal cannot decide and agree on whom they should dispatch to do so.
They can’t send the Army. Everyone of their households owns firearms, and technically, they be confiscating their own guns….
State National Guards?…..naw….same thing.
Loval police forces?….nope….same thing.
So, if we have all the guns, and the liberals become socialists and a governmental overthrow becomes necessary (and the framers actually foresaw this particular problem over 232 years ago)……we’re the ones that’ll do it. And we’re already stocked for the job.
“Retroactive Darwinism” – that’s pretty good, Jack.
Monk, the buying frenzy this month also shows that registration – much less confiscation – would outrage a HUGE portion of American society and would be a logistical Mt. Everest to get over. Who would do it, indeed!