Repeating myself, every little bit of information helps make the big picture more clear. You don't have to be in with the big conspiracy crowd to understand the......plan.VMI77 wrote:
I too can't help but wonder what nefarious actions the Feds are taking behind the scenes (and given where many of these manufacturers are located, in league with state governments). As far as disclosing information about the Feds controlling supplies goes --I'd guess that if the Feds have the power to make a manufacturer limit supply that they also have to power to keep them quiet. One possibility might be the carrot and stick approach of threatening delicensing, other regulatory harassment, and banning sales to government while promising to pay higher future prices, buying additional quantities, and favorable regulatory treatment. Or, the government could be buying up supplies and using accounting tricks to keep the purchases off the books until later in the year.
At the risk of floating a "conspiracy" theory, it also occurs to me that if the Obama administration does have confiscation in mind one of the things they might do is to choke off ammo supplies in advance of taking any action. All those newbies buying ARs will find it hard to get ammo for practice or self-defense, and anyone that wasn't stocked up will be in the same boat. If I bought my first 22 right now I'd have a very hard time finding any ammo for it. That doesn't seem to fit in with the "embargo" scenario though, unless the notion is to make AR conversion kids useless as well, and those don't seem like that big of threat (from their standpoint) to me.
One thing is for sure, if something nefarious is going on it won't be much longer before we find out. I just hope that a lot of what we're hearing, such as the Obama litmus test, is false, because claims like that dovetail all too well with the very ugliest of possible scenarios.
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