- Got up at oh-my-Lord-thirty this morning. Still going with no caffeine all day.
- Hide the breakables and easily offended.
- Stopped by one of my gun stores on the way home.
- They actually had 3 AR-15’s of one sort or another on the wall, along with several tacticool shotguns.
- However, they were completely sold out of AK variants, as well as magazines for AR’s and AK’s.
- Some AR accessories were to be had, but not much.
- Glocks were nowhere to be found, but Beretta, S&W, and Ruger pistols were available.
- Bolt action rifles and hunting shotguns were available with good numbers and selection.
- People aren’t buying guns to go hunt wabbits.
- Ammunition was available, but expensive.
- Federal FMJ .223 was selling for more than twice what it was going for just prior to the election.
- The half barrel that held 12,500 XM855 5.56 cartridges a few weeks was empty and being used to hold used gun cases.
- Common pistol calibers, in both FMJ and hollowpoint, were available but had a price increase of about 30 to 40 percent from just prior to the election.
- Pistol magazines were available, but not for all of the pistols I could think of while looking at the display.
- A Chip McCormack 1911 magazine was priced at $40, about double what I paid for one last year.
- The gentleman behind the counter said that things were busier than Black Friday every day for weeks, but that since Saturday things have slowed somewhat.
- It’s not back to normal at this store yet, but they can at least keep stock on the shelves.
- After work on a Monday, I observed about the same crowd in the store that I’m used to seeing in there on Saturday afternoons.
- Does this jibe with what y’all are seeing elsewhere?
- Dinner tonight was chicken fried rice made with left-overs.
- Am I the only one who feels funny about scrambling eggs and putting them into a chicken-based dish?
- Fried rice is one of those dishes that seems to be more than the sum of its parts. I swear I only put in enough of the ingredients to make four or five servings.
- I now have enough to feed the Mongol hordes and still have leftovers for lunch tomorrow.
- Boo turned his nose up at it, but he at least tasted it. Progress is progress.
- Dinner conversation centered around the gun buying panic and gun control in general.
- In 2005, Irish Woman came very close to putting her foot down and telling me I couldn’t have a gun in the house.
- Now she intelligently discusses gun control and gun safety.
- I’m so proud.
Thoughts on the Day
Posted by daddybear71 on January 7, 2013
https://daddybearsden.com/2013/01/07/thoughts-on-the-day-82/
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