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If you have the money to stockpile, then buy as much as you can reasonably afford when prices are good. My rule of thumb has always been to buy at least a few boxes whenever I go to the gun store whether I am shooting that week or not. When I shoot 2 boxes, I replace them with 3, or 4.
500 rounds of 9mm is less than 30 mags. That's a trip to the range for training.
I've taken several pistol and rifle courses. It's typical to shoot 1,000-2,000 rounds PER DAY.
You can never have enough ammo or loaded mags. I suppose if I had 100k rounds of each caliber I'd think about slowing down my purchasing and focus on buying mags.
OK so let me get this straight......you shoot 2,000 rounds per day of 9mm.........for training. That comes to $600 at the best price I've seen of $15 a box of 50. What exactly are you training for and what do you do for a living if you can afford $600 a trip to the range? BTW......the US Army allocates 270 rounds per soldier PER YEAR for qualification on the M4 or M16. I'm crying BS if you say you shoot $600 a trip.
He's not saying per trip, he's saying when he takes a class or similar that those are the quantities of ammo expended.
... otherwise known as the infamous "detached garage loophole"I just looked that up, and it appears that those limits are for "a building or other structure" per section 13.04 of the below. Looks like you can exceed the above QTYs without a permit... you'd just need to get another safe for your shed and/or detached garage!
I'm crying BS if you say you shoot $600 a trip.
No one ever said that shooting was a cheap sport.even 500 rounds of cheep 9mm is $150 a trip. Even at that rate of 500 rounds I'd only be at the range once a month.
Exactly! Getting a "permit" to stockpile ammo will just put you on somebody's radar. Seriously the only time the amount of ammo you are storing off the books would even come into play was if there was a fire at your house or you got raided by the local JBT crew, and at that point you'd have bigger things to worry about anyway than violating some storage MGL.
I'll let the OP respond to see what he says.....his quote is It's typical to shoot 1,000-2,000 rounds PER DAY over several courses but also that his typical range day was 30 mags of 500 rounds.......even 500 rounds of cheep 9mm is $150 a trip. Even at that rate of 500 rounds I'd only be at the range once a month.
My typical range trip I shoot 2-3 rounds of trap when I go then put 20 rounds of .357 through the revolver to stay current and I have a tight group. If I'm with the boy I'll shoot 300 rounds of .22lr and then head home. Comes to about $40 a trip for ammo for me and I'm confidant I'm "current" with my training.
Yeah, like the fact that your home owners policy won't pay for the house, and now your family is homeless and lost all of their possessions. That is unless you just happen to be sitting on an extra million dollars to replace your house and everything inside it.
And you have been on somebodies radar for years.
Ammo is cheaper by the case.
Well, that explains the ammo shortage. My entire stash would be gone in less than one week. Clearly, I need more!It's typical to shoot 1,000-2,000 rounds PER DAY.
Am I the only one who violates this rule rather routinely, at least on a short term basis? Thank God that there is an off-season when I can try to save and rebuild the stash for the coming year.... trust me it adds up very nicely as long as you never shoot more than you can afford to replace.
this. Although, I could always Sk the neighbor to let me use his bathroom...I need as much as I can store in my house while still being able to get to the bathroom to drop a duce.
StevensMarksman
this. Although, I could always Sk the neighbor to let me use his bathroom...
MA Storage of Small Arms...
Section 527 CMR 13.04.
http://www.mass.gov/eopss/docs/dfs/osfm/cmr/cmr-secured/527013.pdf