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Today while the wife made a long Walmart run I went over to Cabellas in Hawks Prairie to see what I could see about guns, ammo, and reloading components. I stopped first at the primers, which for months have been a small shelf with individual 100 ct. sleeves of primers. No 1000 round boxes. When I arrived there were about 20 sleeves of Win WSP primers marked $8.99 each, and about 5 sleeves of WLP. I walked away and came back 3 minutes later and there were only about 7 of the small pistol left and no large pistol. I picked up 5 sleeves of the WSP and within 30 seconds another guy picked up the last two sleeves. With the steady stream of guys checking it out what little they had of other brands lasted only a few minutes.
The powder prices seemed to be lower than I expected but not cheap. The selection was surprisingly good. Component bullet prices were shockingly high to me.
As I was walking close to the counter one of sales guys asked if he could help me. He verified that no they don't sell boxes of primers anymore. I asked him how business was and he said it was very slow. I asked why and he said the state has just made the process of buying guns so onerous that people have just stopped buying. As I looked around I realized it was the first time I had been there in 3 years where the number of people behind the counter was way more than the customers in front of it.
The salesmen was very nice by Cabellas standards and began a long dissertation into the proposed legislation pending or being introduced. I knew about some of it already but the rest was just shocking. According to him we will be looking at New York style firearm purchase licenses and licensing and registration to buy ammo. It made me almost physically ill to hear what he had to say. I had to walk away and let him help another customer, and I slowly went down the row of display cases looking at their guns for sale.
The prices on some of those guns was just unbelievable to me. I was not surprised by the price tag on the new Colt Pythons, but the standard, non performance center S&W revolvers were just shockingly high. I was really mostly interested in seeing some of the new 9mm 2011's. I got to the end of the counters and the airsoft guns, and realized they didn't stock a single 2011 style pistol. Then it hit me - why would they? You can't buy the magazines for it. Why would anyone here in WA buy a hi-cap 9mm 2011? Even if you had a brother in a gun-friendly state to buy mags for you, in a pinch it might be hard to convince someone that you had already bought the mags two years ago and have been saving for that gun you just purchased.
Earlier this week I was on the townhall phone call with the state reps Travis and Dan in the 35th district. At least two callers asked about the 2A issues and bills and of course they are fighting it. But the inertia out of King county is basically unstoppable and they are going to continue to dictate what the rest of the state has to abide, with no real end in sight.
I have a 50-plus year timeline of owning guns, shooting, and reloading. Fortunately I have all the guns I need and at this point what I would possibly still want, I can still buy in WA. But it is really hard for me to continue to love guns and shooting, and stay positive about this state. I am afraid that one day someone or a lot of someones are going to get hurt trying to enforce these unconstitutional and draconian laws.
How do you stay positive about the future and not be depressed about the current state of affairs?
The powder prices seemed to be lower than I expected but not cheap. The selection was surprisingly good. Component bullet prices were shockingly high to me.
As I was walking close to the counter one of sales guys asked if he could help me. He verified that no they don't sell boxes of primers anymore. I asked him how business was and he said it was very slow. I asked why and he said the state has just made the process of buying guns so onerous that people have just stopped buying. As I looked around I realized it was the first time I had been there in 3 years where the number of people behind the counter was way more than the customers in front of it.
The salesmen was very nice by Cabellas standards and began a long dissertation into the proposed legislation pending or being introduced. I knew about some of it already but the rest was just shocking. According to him we will be looking at New York style firearm purchase licenses and licensing and registration to buy ammo. It made me almost physically ill to hear what he had to say. I had to walk away and let him help another customer, and I slowly went down the row of display cases looking at their guns for sale.
The prices on some of those guns was just unbelievable to me. I was not surprised by the price tag on the new Colt Pythons, but the standard, non performance center S&W revolvers were just shockingly high. I was really mostly interested in seeing some of the new 9mm 2011's. I got to the end of the counters and the airsoft guns, and realized they didn't stock a single 2011 style pistol. Then it hit me - why would they? You can't buy the magazines for it. Why would anyone here in WA buy a hi-cap 9mm 2011? Even if you had a brother in a gun-friendly state to buy mags for you, in a pinch it might be hard to convince someone that you had already bought the mags two years ago and have been saving for that gun you just purchased.
Earlier this week I was on the townhall phone call with the state reps Travis and Dan in the 35th district. At least two callers asked about the 2A issues and bills and of course they are fighting it. But the inertia out of King county is basically unstoppable and they are going to continue to dictate what the rest of the state has to abide, with no real end in sight.
I have a 50-plus year timeline of owning guns, shooting, and reloading. Fortunately I have all the guns I need and at this point what I would possibly still want, I can still buy in WA. But it is really hard for me to continue to love guns and shooting, and stay positive about this state. I am afraid that one day someone or a lot of someones are going to get hurt trying to enforce these unconstitutional and draconian laws.
How do you stay positive about the future and not be depressed about the current state of affairs?
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