Comments on: OMG they’re actually selling ammo

By: DirtCrashr

DirtCrashr — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 04:56:27 +0000

Morons. The local WalMArt keeps the rifle and pistol ammo behind a case here in NorCal, but the big-box-o’ shotgun-fun stuff would take up too much space, so it’s left out on shelves – but try to “freelance Socialist” and grab one of those puppies. it’s harder to steal than a 12-pack of Bud or whatnot – just doesn’t happen. Freakin retards.

By: Robert

Robert — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 03:01:12 +0000

The whole freaking American country is infected with “There oughtta be a law!” and ” You can’t do that!!!” these days. There’s no cure.

By: Linoge

Linoge — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 02:05:46 +0000

When I lived in Mississippi (do not ask), I rather enjoyed being able to go to the SuperWalmart down the road and get dinner, a movie or two, some clothes, and ammunition for my 9mm. It was, by far, the cheapest place in town for pistol rounds, though I did not have my rifle then, so I am not sure about that count.

Of course, now that I am trapped in Kalifornistan, I have to drive 30 minutes out of my way to find ammunition, at 10-15% higher prices. I love this state. Really.

By: JKB

JKB — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 01:59:53 +0000

The ban ammunition argument is coming but I was heartened to see this footnote from a Tennessee Supreme Court ruling in a recent paper by Glenn Reynolds:

Id. at 156 (3 Heisk. at 182). The court also found certain penumbral aspects to the right to keep
and bear arms:
The right to keep arms, necessarily involves the right to purchase them, to keep
them in a state of efficiency for use, and to purchase and provide ammunition suitable for
such arms, and to keep them in repair. And clearly for this purpose, a man would have
the right to carry them to and from his home, and no one could claim that the Legislature
had the right to punish him for it, without violating this clause of the Constitution.
But farther than this, it must be held, that the right to keep arms involves,
necessarily, the right to use such arms for all the ordinary purposes, and in all the
ordinary modes usual in the country, and to which arms are adapted, limited by the duties
of a good citizen in times of peace; that in such use, he shall not use them for violation of
the rights of others, or the paramount rights of the community of which he makes a part.

(GUNS AND GAY SEX: SOME NOTES ON FIREARMS, THE SECOND
AMENDMENT, AND �REASONABLE REGULATION�
GLENN HARLAN REYNOLDS*
Forthcoming in Tennessee Law Review Vol. 75:1 (Fall 2007) )
(http://instapundit.com/archives2/011806.php)

Seems at least on court has looked at what the right to bear arms actually encompasses. We can hope the US Supreme Court will likewise view the right to bear arms as encompassing the right to ammunition, transport, and practice.

By: Cactus Jack

Cactus Jack — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 22:05:06 +0000

straightarrow Says:

December 3rd, 2007 at 5:51 pm
The best selection of ammo in a small town near me is in a hardware store, they have a super walmart in town.

We have a super wally world in my town too but I seldom go there. I dont like wally world.

By: straightarrow

straightarrow — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 21:52:24 +0000

But the hardware store beats ‘em.

By: straightarrow

straightarrow — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 21:51:50 +0000

The best selection of ammo in a small town near me is in a hardware store, they have a super walmart in town.

By: Gunstar1

Gunstar1 — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 19:28:59 +0000

Speaking of hardware stores and ammo, I recently went into an Ace hardware that was in a small town and they had ammo for sale. I was fairly shocked. No guns, just an end (of an isle) cap of ammo.

By: Cactus Jack

Cactus Jack — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 18:56:36 +0000

Hell, I remember that back in the 1960s you could buy ammo in hardware stores.

Today’s “progresive’ and “sensible” (LOL!) types would’ve shit seeing me, a 10 year old, buying a brick of .22 long rifle at a hardware store with my .22 rifle strapped to the handlebars of my bicycle which was parked outside the store. Ah, the good old days….

By: HerrBGone

HerrBGone — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 18:16:36 +0000

#9, sad to say, but I think they’re pretty much everywhere these days.

By: # 9

# 9 — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 18:12:04 +0000

The South has been invaded again, this time by idiots.

By: ben

ben — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 18:11:58 +0000

I thought I read somewhere that among the proposals to limit ammo, they wanted anyone holding more than 100 primers to have to register their “ammo”. I’m sure that what they really want is to ban primers, but this is a step in the right direction for “sensible” gun legislation.

Speaking of which, the terms adopted by the left to describe themselves (progressive) and what they want to do (sensible) are really starting to grate.

By: Gmac

Gmac — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 18:00:50 +0000

Didn’t one of the more liberal NE Senators make the same attempts back in the 80’s and pretty much had the same results this clown will?

By: Ron W

Ron W — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 17:25:04 +0000

Since when should we not have access the means to exercise a right???

By: Bitter

Bitter — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 17:12:33 +0000

Here’s the part I find amusing:

Cook said he was concerned about how easy it was to obtain bullets.

“They have guns, they should make it harder to get ammuni�tion,” Cook said. “People should not have easy access to ammuni�tion.”

So is this the new line of the anti-gunners? Sure, we have a right to bear arms, just not the ammunition for the arms!

Hey, if this Supreme Court thing doesn’t work out for them, they might consider it.