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I, like so many people across the country, can’t walk out of my local sporting goods store without buying the limit of ammunition. Now, before you judge me, realize that most places limit you to small boxes of ammunition, and usually one two per caliber. Is it being prudent or just being obsessed? While the firearm and ammo situation is very much a media-hyped thing, I have even talked about things you must buy every time you are out, like my article on Things Commonly Overlooked. But what about those items that you pick up, look at the price tag, but pass on it saying “maybe next time.”
In conversations with my other prepping type friends, it would appear that ammunition and firearms are the centerpiece of all of our preparations. While all of us love to shoot and none of us want to cut a good day of shooting short because it will take us weeks to resupply. the truth of the matter is that we are making firearms and ammunition the priority, both in the money and the peace of mind spent to assure our continuation in a world gone bad. But does it really do either of those?
After a few comments from my better half, I got to thinking about how much money I have sunk into my firearms and ammunition in the last year. I have bought at least a half dozen guns. I also make it to my local Academy at least once per pay period and have never walked out without buying the 2 box limit of 9mm or .45, or the limit in .223/.22. Which means the cheapest possible trip in and out is approximately $45. Commonly I buy an additional box of .38 special or .357, which is at least an additional $25. So, let’s say I do that once a pay period or twice a month. That’s over $1000 a year in ammunition. Again, that’s a very conservative estimate. Truth be told, i don’t shoot that much and my stock had grown such that I have…well…more than I need.
It was after the crisis in Syria became front page news that I started thinking: What could I have bought instead of all this ammo. More importantly, what things could I possibly need in a split second that guns and ammo couldn’t get me. The first thing that I thought of was the one thing that was all over the news. There were scenes of those killed by gas. There were scenes of those luckily to only be maimed by it, usually losing their eyesight. I don’t know about you, but that’s one sense I’d rather not do without. What did these people not have that might have saved them? Gas masks.
All of the ammunition in the world couldn’t help those people exposed. There was nowhere to run. Once within that poison cloud, you couldn’t simply run or hide from it. You certainly couldn’t fight out of it or buy/trade your way to safety.
Source: http://www.survivalblog.com/2013/09/prioritized-prepping-by-zt.html