Balls and Walnuts
more than you ever wanted to know
A shortage of killing power
The sporting goods store was all out of hollow points.
There was a run on ammo at the beginning of the year, back when righteous NRA-lovin’ gun-totin’ Americans convinced themselves that Barack Obama would soon reinstitute bans on assault weapons and do God knows what else to restrict their Second Amendment rights. But the Obama Admin hasn’t done squat to please the Left’s gun control wing, and in fact, it is now possible to pack heat into our national parks.
Despite this, Americans continue to stockpile ammo. Per this Canadian Broadcasting Company article, “According to the National Rifle Association in the U.S., Americans buy about seven billion rounds of ammunition annually. But by September this year, they had purchased nine billion rounds.” As a result, Canadian hunters are having a harder time buying bullets.
The annoying thing about this? All we want is a few rounds of hollow points. Hollow points are great for home defense because they have great stopping power and they don’t penetrate walls. Safety first!
So to all you right wing nut jobs hoarding ammunition: Dammit, start sharing. Us lefties are sick and tired of settling for normal rounds.
D.
I wouldn’t rely on that whole not penetrating walls thing.
I think we’re entering the period of American Surreal.
Well, it does depend on a whole host of factors. (And it’s a good resource for writers, too…)
And yeah – the decline of empires does seem to result in a lot of surrealism writ large.
At one point there was a move to have a special tax on ammunition as one element of reducing the spread of weapons. I thought it was a good enough idea I actually wrote my Senator. Not that it helps, since CA has two Dems who already supported that sort of thing…
Do they take ballistic fingerprints of new guns yet? That was another idea that was floating around. Sort of a DNA database for guns.
What sort of a firearm do you have? I love to shoot stuff (had an outstanding time with a Kalishnikov at a range in Tallinn), but won’t keep a gun in the house for a variety of reasons.
We have a Lady’s Smith and Wesson, which we’ve had since my days in residency, when Karen was alone all night while I took call. We used to fire it at the local range (in Pasadena?) and I wasn’t half bad at it.