How Much Ammunition Do You Carry On A Regular Basis?

So thought everyone present at a mass shooting.

 

I would say in most cases, more than one reload is excessive... unless there are real dangers, but going to the grocery store and everywhere else, I think 43 rounds just sounds excessive

 

if you're a good shot, how many bullets do you need, 48?

 

I'll wager the staff at Columbine would've appreciated the option.

To each his own. You're free to equip yourself (or not) as you choose. You won't hear a peep out of me either way. What impact do me & my loaded EDC + 2 reloads have on your life?

 

No one knows how many they need, until they run out -- and then they only know they need more.

 

Thanks for making my argument. As you noted technology changes and it can’t be judged on 18th century terms. First Amendment questions now have to deal with questions like, should a platform provider be liable for the content of its users? That didn’t come up much in the 18th century. Likewise the easy availability of handguns and the current fashion of everyone needing one for “protection” from others with a handgun.

So you are okay with not stopping a violent felon from purchasing a handgun at your local gun store?

This is no longer the 18th century, try to keep up, and social priorities have changed for most people who want to live in a civilized society.

People when thinking about stealing judge the cost vs benefit of that theft. If the cost is higher than the benefit, because of laws in place, then those laws prevented that theft. Most people with normal intelligence can understand that.

 

I don't support the power of the federal government to have passed the gun control act of 1968 based on the dishonest use of the commerce clause as an end around the second and more importantly tenth amendment. I believe states have the proper power to arrest and prosecute a violent felon who possesses or attempts to possess a firearm. tell us in what world will possession of a firearm be a tougher sentence than armed robbery. If a 15 year sentence possibility doesn't deter a felon trying to buy or obtain a gun to commit robbery, how is a one or two year sentences for having the gun going to stop him

 

no one has ever lost a gun fight by having remaining rounds after the confrontation was over

 

so you pretend that laws that criminalize assault with a firearm, robbery with a firearm-reckless discharge of a firearm, menacing with a firearm, etc are not supported? you all seem to think that the only gun control is stuff that is malum prohibitum stuff

 

Nothing here changes the fact the USSC discarded your argument two decades ago, rendering it meaningless.

And thus, proof of your inability to demonstrate how the fact anyone can commit a theft any time they want proves your claim that laws against theft prevent theft.
Well done.

 

agree, never said otherwise

 

yep, only you can decide that, the better shot you are, the fewer you need

 

you don't know that-you might have multiple assailants, assailants wearing body armor etc. there is no tactical downside to having extra ammo. I am a professional level speed shooter. I compete at least weekly six months a year. I see very good shooters-far better than most police officers-miss 14" plates at 12 yards due to the time pressure -the faster you hit, the better your chance of winning. This is one of the best ways to train for self defense but when rounds are coming at you, well I have trained with simunitions which is akin to glorified paint ball. and I watch really good shooters miss. best to have extra ammo

 

And even then, 3 magazines and 90 rounds may not be enough..

 

Unless you've been in a gunfight (I haven't) you can't know for sure how you'll perform in a firefight. My wife & I are wicked good at the range with no one shooting at us. Once the adrenaline hits, it would not be surprising to learn we're not as accurate once the fit hits the shan.

Then why the angst over "excessive" amounts of ammunition?

 

I am speaking of the weapons themselves not of crimes committed with them.

 

You don't seem to understand. There were plenty of repeating arms in existence before the second was written.

And someone has already posted in this thread where the court has ruled that the second amendment does not just apply to arms that existed at the time.

So the courts have already disposed of the silly and misinformed single shot musket argument

 

gun banners don't have a clue (or if they do they ignore it) the context of proportionality that is involved. They think a right is limited by past state of the art but they sure don't want to apply that to say the first amendment and pretend that internet communications are not protected by freedom of speech or telephone conversations are not covered by the fourth amendment. it's specious bullshit by people WHO KNOW their gun banning schemes are unconstitutional so they try to pretend the constitution says something else

 

And they are not supreme Court justices so it really doesn't matter what they say anyways

 

Unless it's a govt building with metal detectors, I take my chances with the "concealed" part of CCW. Checking my PO box, for example.

It's more than many. It's the default smear deployed by those on that side.

Amen. And amen.

 

What they don't know doesn't hurt them.
Nobody's damn business what's in your pocket

 

Me too, but I still load .357 magnum. Hornady claims they get 1700 fps at the factory - I suspect they measured that velocity out of a hunting pistol with an 8" barrel. I get just over 1400 shooting it from my Ruger LCR. I'd hate to be on the receiving end, even with ballistic armor.

 

Never owned a firearm And in my youth I drove an ice cream truck in Watts And even then I did not feel the need to own one. I once was robbed at gunpoint and had I owned a gun and reached for it I would have been killed. The best case for owning a gun is at home when you can see them coming. But on the street, that is rarely the case.

 

And you have plenty of people exist whose life has been saved by one on the street.

How do you know what the outcome would have been? A premonition?

 

One guy in particular named Kyle.

Argument of convenience, and a hasty generalization.