I don't know if this is just local or nationwide, I am guessing it comes from the NRA.

[doc03]

The gun nuts are saying that they are going to put a 50% tax on ammo and limit sales to 200 rounds, eliminate assault weapons and
high capacity magazines. The gun shops are sold out of handgun, AK ammo and assault weapons. A guy that
works at McDonald's said this morning he had bought $360 in ammo. How do you work at McDonald's and
spend $360 on ammo? From what I heard a local gun dealer/range operator is the one spreading the rumor.
These Trump idiots are arming themselves for a civil war I guess.

[Hoyt]

1. They've been arming up for decades. The NRA, gun stores, manufacturers, militia

groups, gun-humpers, etc., promote fear and hysteria.

[Andy823]

8. Yep

I remember back when President Obama won the election. The right wingers were buying up guns and stockpiling them because the "knew" they would need them to defend themselves.

Four years later I started seeing ads selling those assault type weapons, and the ammo to go with the weapons. What amazed me is some of them said the weapon had never been fired, and still in the original box.

The NRA has used fear for years to get the sales of guns up, and it works. A lot of the gun nuts like to play "army", even though they have never been in the military, and would never sign up. Of course there is that "bone spur guy"...!

[dchill]

2. How do you spend $360? Answer - Mom's basement.

[doc03]

3. This one has a family nt

[dchill]

4. A HUNGRY family.

[sarisataka]

5. Do you have any links?

I do occasionally visit "gun nut" forums but have not seen such claims.

I was at our Fleet Farm today, their handgun ammo shelves would normally have hundreds of boxes of ammo. Today they had 3 boxes. I have noticed handgun ammo has been picked over for months.

How did you get into a conversation with a McDonald's worker about how much ammo he buys?

[doc03]

10. A usual bunch of Trump people were talking about it this morning along with

him. They were saying a local gun dealer was telling everyone about it, I don't know where the hell it
comes from I am guessing Facebook.

[sarisataka]

11. I would guess a local

Extra paranoid person on FB. I see the usual warnings about electing a Democrat who will then try to ban certain weapons but even that seems to be half hearted lately.

Interestingly I have seen near universal condemnation of the Saint Louis couple standing in front of their house waving guns at protesters. Even the gun nuts seem to think that was over the top.

[Chellee]

13. The gun dealer was telling everyone about it.

That's hysterical. Did none of them think, hmm... maybe he's just trying to up his sales.

[Walleye]

6. The second amendment says nothing about bullets.

I think they made their own ammo in the musket era

[hack89]

7. But subsequent case law does

The 2A covers ammunition.

[Walleye]

17. Oh. Too bad.

[hack89]

18. I know. Preventing end runs around the Bill of Rights - the nerve! Nt

[sarisataka]

14. The 1st Amendment says nothing

About ink either. Yet the Supreme Court ruled it cannot be excessively taxed due to freedom of the press

[doc03]

9. The entire time Obama was in office you could hardly find 22 LR ammo. The reason

they say was the manufacturers switched all their production to handgun and AR ammo. Another claim
was Obama was buying it all up. But they believe Trump when he says the military didn't have ammo when he
"took over". I saw steel drums of AR ammo with like 10000 rounds for sale then.

[Dial H For Hero]

12. Let's see:

50% tax on ammo: There is such a bill. It won't pass (in this session):

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2020/05/24/fact-check-bill-would-increase-taxes-firearms-and-ammunition/5231813002/

Limit sales to 200 rounds: Prohibit individuals from possessing ammunition in amounts greater than 200 rounds per caliber or gauge., proposed by Eric Swalwell. Not happening:

https://ericswalwell.com/endgunviolence/?fbclid=IwAR2txuUvbmANqZOguSPn-s7CUGZozopyAqx3VCDH21RbHFWNsQMoVrD_bro#point6

Eliminate assault weapons and high capacity magazines: Suggested with slightly varying details by Swalwell, O'Rourke, and Biden.

https://ericswalwell.com/endgunviolence/?fbclid=IwAR2txuUvbmANqZOguSPn-s7CUGZozopyAqx3VCDH21RbHFWNsQMoVrD_bro
https://www.newsweek.com/beto-orourke-gun-buyback-assault-weapons-1465738
https://joebiden.com/gunsafety/

[doc03]

16. OK thanks for clearing it up, so there is such a bill. I think the NRA secretly hopes a Democrat

gets elected they always make a killing on the gun hampers. I am on Facebook but when I see any of this crap
I just put them on ignore.

[Dial H For Hero]

19. If both Houses of Congress and the White House are in Democratic control next year

expect prices on ammunition and (especially) assault weapons and high capacity magazines to skyrocket to levels never seen. I don't think a bill requiring a buyback of such items will pass, but we could easily get one banning the manufacture of new ones, and possibly also banning the sale of ones already owned.

Back in the 1990's when the Assault Weapons Ban was in effect, the manufacture on new AW's and hi-cap mags (for civilians) was banned, but onee previously owned were grandfathered and could still be sold. Glock magazines that held 17 rounds which sold for $15 in 1993 went for $150 in 1999. A "post-ban" AR-15 could go for $600, but a "pre-ban" version would sell for $1500 or more.

If a bill banning the sale of grandfathered guns and magazines is passed, I anticipate magazines selling for many hundreds apiece and the guns themselves for multiple thousands in the time between its passage and enactment.

[doc03]

22. I don't agree with that at all. Then it will be ok

for the rich to own all the guns and ammo they want. That would prohibit the average person from owning a gun.. The rich have bought up all the land and made private hunting clubs. So now they raise the cost so the average person can't afford to own a gun. I will not vote for anyone that would support that bill.

[Wounded Bear]

15. Typical bullshit when it looks like a Dem will win the WH...

Pure unadulterated bullshit, but it'll sell a lot of guns and ammo.

[kacekwl]

20. They go to the gun range

and hang with their buddies and go thru $300.00 in ammo in no time.

[NickB79]

21. $360 buys you around 500-1000 rounds of ammo

Depending on caliber. 9mm and 5.56mm is cheaper, .308 more expensive.

I could burn that up in 2-3 months, if I'm hitting the range a few times a month.

[Yeehah]

23. Gun nuts? What gun nuts?

I thought Obama was going to take all their guns away?