“What could go wrong?”
You may have heard that the Great State of California has passed a bunch of new laws – I think they were bunched together in an omnibus bill called the Petulant and Capricious Acts, but I could be wrong – making it difficult/impossible for shooters to buy ammo. There is absolutely no doubt in my mind that this will totally make California the least “gun violence”-prone state in the union just as soon as the laws kick in. Which they haven’t yet. And I’m sure nobody could possibly have anticipated that in the meantime…
California Ammunition Sales UP FIFTY PERCENT
The actual figures concerning percentile increase are even more alarming-
Percent Increase in Sales by Municipality:
Los Angeles Metro Area – 395%
San Francisco Metro Area – 417%
San Diego Metro Area – 161%
Sacramento Metro Area – 449%
Anaheim Metro Area – 264%
San Jose Metro Area – 233%
The laws of unintended consequences strike again. Gas sales will probably go up too with people driving out of state to stock up on their ammo. I guess I was wrong thinking the Californians were too peaceful to want to own guns. They must just be buying ammo for use as artsy fartsy paperweights. 😉
When politics points to future shortages, the masses buy what they can find right now. They learned that during the ammunition drought several years back – nothing on the shelves is guaranteed to be there indefinitely.
Once again here is proof that one need now nothing about a subject in order to pass laws about it. On the plus side there’s money to be made here for some young, Malcolm Reynolds like, entrepreneur who would like to make some cash running ammo.