When it really happens: SHTF...

[usabaker]

watching all the ammunition in the country dry up before my eyes along with most of the accessories needed like magazines and clips.

Surprisingly there is a lot of surplus 7.62x25 ammo on the market for the Tokarev; J&G Sales and Classic Firearms seem to have plenty. For commercial ammo that's a different story. I like to buy from TargetSportsUSA, one of the few places that will still ship to me as a C&R holder in California, two weeks ago I put an alert on some of the Sellier & Bellot 7.62x25mm Tokarev Ammo so I was made aware that they got some in stock. I received the text alert 7:45 AM after a conference call I logged into my account, about 8:30 AM and only 1 box was left. Hardly worth ordering because of the shipping cost, so I ordered it and a bunch of PPU 200Gn Match 8MM Mauser Ammo that I needed anyhow.

[browningautorifle]

Except for the damn kids. They still think it's party time.

And that will be our undoing, by the way...there's older ones that are of the same mind set.

[Aragorn243]

Tokarev ammo I have sufficient quantities. I apparently bought a box of commercial every time I went to Cabelas and bought hundreds of rounds of surplus when I ran across it. I have a PPS-43 in addition to the M57 and it's fun to shoot so I was buying all I could find locally and only took it to the range the one time. I never bought a spam can but I have enough. I did order a couple of extra magazines today. Nice to not have to take the time to load 35 rounds in a spot.

My weak spots were of course the two calibers that are the most effective, AR and AK ammo. Those I ordered also.

[mrclark303]

And that will be our undoing, by the way...there's older ones that are of the same mind set.

Tell me about it Jim, the utter fuc*whits spent last weekend partying here, the government has had no choice but to react and as a result, the whole of the UK has just gone into complete lockdown....

I (and many others) will struggle to keep our businesses operational and viable over the next three months...

Just 'so many' retarded Millennials (and older idiots), who can't grasp the gravity of what's right in front of them!

[browningautorifle]

We haven't taken drastic measures yet. They'll wait until it's too late...

[Ovidio]

Just to teach us all how it is possible not to learn from others. I think one country should have sufficed in terms of mistakes, but I’m slowly starting to think that we only took the lead in a worldwide competition...

[mrclark303]

Just to teach us all how it is possible not to learn from others. I think one country should have sufficed in terms of mistakes, but I’m slowly starting to think that we only took the lead in a worldwide competition...

Thank you so much for your daily reports from Italy Oviedo, you have given us far more consistent information than the various news feeds!

The proverbial sticky stuff has just hit the fan here, day one of lock down and you can hear a pin drop in my usually busy town..

The Police need to be ready to to put the boot in were nessasary, the idiots usually just ignore them here...

Out with the tazer boys.....

[Ovidio]

Thank you so much for your daily reports from Italy Oviedo, you have given us far more consistent information than the various news feeds!

The proverbial sticky stuff has just hit the fan here, day one of lock down and you can hear a pin drop in my usually busy town..

The Police need to be ready to to put the boot in were nessasary, the idiots usually just ignore them here...

Out with the tazer boys.....

Thanks, Mr. Clark.
I just report exactly what I see and experience here, plus, every now and then, the feelings one has being in such a situation.
The silence is the first thing one notices, isn't it?
You'll soon be missing the vicinity of people, handshakes, a beer or glass of wine with someone slapping you on the shoulder...such, now I really understand it, priceless things.
But I'm very glad that this thread, which started just to "vent" a bit, seems to be helping people feel a tad less unprepared. And maybe also less alone.
That is really a very big satisfaction.
The fact that my own personal DEFCON still remains at 3 is very good news for me.
I was prepared to raise it to 2, but there is really no need at all for it. Not now...

[Gil Boyd]

Its fair to say, the WORLD will be a different place when this is all over. Kissing and shaking hands will, I think take a secondary place in future!!

[Aragorn243]

Lot of mixed messages here. A talk show host is essentially saying this is cured with the malaria treatment. No one else is supporting that statement although Trump seems to be indicating it is at the objection of his health advisor. He's also saying this will not last months without going into details on why. I understand his position. There comes a point where the economy is more important than the lives of a small number of people. Not to be cruel but we cannot go back to the stone age because of this, what's the point, and we wouldn't survive anyway. Where is the fine line where more people die from the economy than the virus.

I would like to think he is going to force the FDA's hand and start using these drugs for treatment, they work and this is over is weeks rather than months or years. But we don't know that. Not knowing is the biggest issue I have. I am content to sit in my house for a few weeks, maybe a month but not six months. There has to be a point where we return to function.