Reloading Supply Jackpot

As I may have said, (I'm too lazy to check my older posts) I intend to start reloading someday. Some would say it's putting the cart before the horse, but I've seen enough of a shortage in ammo and reloading supplies that I believe that building a sizable stock ahead of time may be quite useful in times of high demand. So, on a spontaneous trip to the gun shop (I have no money, but I still like to look around) I looked around, found a couple nice used AKs and a good looking Remington 870, and after talking to an employee for a bit, I found a box full of spent Fiocchi 12 gauge shotshells marked "FREE." Deciding not to look a "gift" horse in the mouth, I quickly alerted the clerk that I'd be taking it, and walked out.

The shells were rather unceremoniously thrown into the box, which seemed to be haphazardly taped shut around it's overflowing cargo. Upon further inspection, they were quite dirty, as if they'd been stored in some forgotten closet for some few years. Some of the shells were missing their spent primers, some of which I managed to find in the box. After seeing that a couple seemed to have mangled, half formed crimps, I decided that someone must have tried to reload them, but had little luck, so he gave up and offloaded them

As you can see, I rearranged them for easier storage, and I intend to clean them up for future use. I may not have a shotgun, but ideally, when I have a shotgun, and a reloading setup, there will be one less supply I'll need to build. 

That's all for now, so until next time, kill some time and spill some brass!

On Debating With a Stalwart Anti-Gunner

Sorry for the rather large hiatus, but sadly, I've had a spell of writer's block, and a lack of untouched material to go off of. However, today, I had my first... conversation....? Debate...? I dunno, it was pretty one sided, since he didn't seem to want to let me have a word in edgewise. It was rather nice though, even if just for the fact that I met another pro-gunner in the process. Being in Oregon, most of the people I see on a daily basis are typically undecided or ignorant to the subject of guns. I understand there's an ample pro-gun population, as well as a more or less pro-gun representative, but as is now, I don't know much of the pro-gun community here. I was in law class, and was waiting for the topic to come up, so I could hear what my teacher and classmates had to say, so when we were on the topic of constitutional rights, one of my classmates brought up the similarity between the proposed AWB, and the disarmament of Germany during Hitler's regime. Upon hearing this, my teacher immediately wrote off my classmate's statement, simply for the fact that Germany was a monarchy, while the U.S.A. is a democratic republic. He either didn't realize, or chose not to realize that the point my classmate was trying to make was not that the U.S.A. is a monarchy, but that the act of banning firearms in any form is tyrannical. After class, I followed up with my teacher on the topic in hopes that I could understand better his opinion on the subject. He said immediately that he was in favor of an AWB. When I clarified that "assault weapons" were already heavily restricted, and that what people are calling "assault weapons" now, are simply big black scary guns that in essence don't work any differently than a semi-auto pistol or a semi-auto shotgun. When given this information, he simply said that we should ban those too, and made a vague reference to something that he may have heard about what may have been Glocks being banned from civilians buying new. Long story short, my classmate and I gave him all the statistics supporting our arguments and showed him the logical fallacies behind most of the anti-gun arguments, but he was more or less stalwart. It felt like speaking to a slightly less bigoted version of Piers Morgan.

That's all for now. Though ammo may be short, and depending on where you are, magazines may be small, go kill some time and spill some brass!