{"id":79443,"date":"2021-09-10T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-09-10T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=79443"},"modified":"2021-09-09T08:18:47","modified_gmt":"2021-09-09T13:18:47","slug":"not-unexpected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=79443","title":{"rendered":"Not Unexpected"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>The United States still faces a shortage of affordable ammunition.  The Garden Administration<a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2021\/08\/30\/how-democrats-are-using-economic-chokeholds-to-restrict-your-gun-rights-without-passing-any-new-laws\/\"> is going to make it worse<\/a>.  <\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Ammunition made in Russia is imported into the US and sold under brands like Tula, Wolf, Bear and others.  It&#8217;s generally made from cheaper components (steel case, bi-metal jacket, low-grade-primer) so ammo snobs like me won&#8217;t buy it.  But cheaper components means cheaper prices, even after shipping it half-way around the world.  Today on Ammoseek, 9mm 115 grain by Tula is $0.33 per round while Winchester White Box is $0.40 (limited quantities).  Unless you&#8217;re shooting a lot of rounds, that probably won&#8217;t make a difference in your pocketbook.  <\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>But remember our discussion about Second Order Effects?  Take away the cheapest ammo and what do low-budget shooters do: quit shooting altogether or buy more expansive ammo?  And if they buy more expensive ammo, that depletes the available inventory of more expensive ammo which . . . pushes up the price to make it even more expensive.  <\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>When ammunition becomes a luxury good, only rich people and government can afford it.  Disarming the masses on the cheap &#8211; welcome to The New United States, where Constitutional rights are a historical anachronism that you can&#8217;t afford to exercise. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>It is implementing, in effect, Moynahan\u2019s famous, and most stupid, policy suggestion; the thousand percent tax on ammunition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: The United States still faces a shortage of affordable ammunition. The Garden Administration is going to make it worse. Ammunition made in Russia is imported into the US and sold under brands like Tula, Wolf, Bear and others. It&#8217;s generally made from cheaper components (steel case, bi-metal jacket, low-grade-primer) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-victim-disarmament"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=79443"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79444,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79443\/revisions\/79444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=79443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=79443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=79443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}