# I bought a new gun. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 15, 2017, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-bought-a-new-gun/789057 "2017-06-15T20:21:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Tranquilis](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tranquilis/32/3639_2.png) [@Tranquilis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tranquilis)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2017, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-bought-a-new-gun/789057/21 "2017-06-21T14:39:51Z")
> [@FoieGrasIsEvil](#): > > … ammo shortages were a real thing for a brief few months. That’s been over for awhile and while I only own an AR-15 having sold my 911 pistol, I go to gun shops and .22 ammo is plentiful. I’d say the curve of the bubble encompasses a couple years, from ramp-up, to fear, to panic, to gradually-released tension. A lot of the ‘edgier’ guys were loath to surrender their pet conspiracy theory (“First, the rimfire will be banned/taxed/priced out of reach, then the centerfire cartridges!”). But yeah, it’s on the shelves. .22 WRM is what’s hard to find, these days. 😛 _Edit_: Oh, and speculations by retailers didn’t help any. They’d recieve a case, put half on the shelves and regulate the sale (“one brick per customer of the cheap stuff, but if you buy a firearm, you can also buy two bricks of the good stuff!”\*), then they’d put the rest for sale on-line at inflated prices. - saw that with my own eyes at a local shop ---
**Author:** ![Tom\_Tildrum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e95f7d/32.png) [@Tom\_Tildrum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Tildrum)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2017, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-bought-a-new-gun/789057/22 "2017-06-21T14:40:22Z")
It takes a confident man to give his ex-wife a long gun in the divorce. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Scumpup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce73a5/32.png) [@Scumpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scumpup)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2017, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-bought-a-new-gun/789057/23 "2017-06-21T21:44:27Z")
> [@Tom\_Tildrum](#): > > It takes a confident man to give his ex-wife a long gun in the divorce. 😃 She’s an excellent shot, thanks to Soviet-era middle school training. I’ll never feel a thing, so I don’t care. ---
**Author:** ![Scumpup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce73a5/32.png) [@Scumpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scumpup)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2017, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-bought-a-new-gun/789057/24 "2017-07-20T21:06:59Z")
I bought a [Ruger LCR](http://www.ruger.com/products/lcr/models.html) on a whim today. Got the .22lr. Sweet little gun. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2017, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-bought-a-new-gun/789057/25 "2017-07-20T21:39:40Z")
> [@Scumpup](#): > > She’s an excellent shot, thanks to Soviet-era middle school training. I’ll never feel a thing, so I don’t care. Only if she doesn’t _want_ you to feel a thing. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2017, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-bought-a-new-gun/789057/26 "2017-07-20T21:49:53Z")
I’m trying to get myself motivated to sell some of my guns. I think the first will be my ‘Red 9’ Broomhandle Mauser, and my 1916(?) Colt’s Government Model. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-bought-a-new-gun/789057.md?page=1)