-=> Quoting Dick Roebelt to Steve Gunhouse on 06-29-96  18:58 <=-
 Re: Plastic
 SG>Now, if you purchase ammo at Wal-mart, you may be in trouble. But
 SG>there, I only buy .44 Magnum and .303 British ammo (which they'd
 SG>already know I own one of). Everything else they'd never know of.
 SG>Sure they can find records of my purchases of some guns (and not
 SG>others), but most of my ammo is unknown.
 DR> Wal-Mart and the like is EXACTLY what I had in mind.  It never
 DR> fails that when I have to buy ammo it is on a trip where I don't have
 DR> much cash and always use a credit card.
 DR> Such as my last trip to Texas where I was with a bunch of Marine V-
 DR> vets who were qualified instructors under the (then) new law for
 DR> concealed carry.  They thought they could outshoot this old Navy
 DR> Ordnanceman.  So off to Wal-Mart to pick up several more boxes of ammo
 DR> and had to pay with plastic on a Sunday.  It never fails!  Sigh!
Here, I can get ammo on Sunday from either the range, a big department or
sporting goods store, and 1 gun shop. Well, buying at the range might be
letting the government know directly - it's a military range.
I just stay prepared. I buy ammo for a couple of months at gun shows or
dealers. But as I said to Dave, everyone knows what I own anyway. I am
intellectually opposed to secrecy. I don't go out of my way to show
things off, but I don't hide them either. That way, if they're going to
come for me, everyone will know there is no justification.
That's my big problem with the paranoid people. If you're trying to hide
things, no one will know enough to be able to come to your aid. You'll
just be considered some hermit, and your neighbors will believe the
"plausible" stories they'll tell (and probably many more as well).
I'd rather have the true giant - the public - on my side. In that way,
the government or whoever else can't touch me.
Steve
... A Smith and Wesson beats four aces.
 * Blue Wave/QWK v2.12 *
--- GOMail v1.1 [92-0793]
---------------