2500+ Rounds = Terror Watch List?

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Southern_guy

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This sounded like BS when I first heard it, but I'd like to be on the safe side. A friend in the state police said that the Patriot Act/another bill passed states that if police search your home and or person and you are found with over 2500 rounds of a single caliber, you are automatically added to the Terror Watch List, and hence cannot fly, may lose job certificates (medical, etc), and can be wiretapped.
Is this true? I'd hate to get pulled over for a traffic violation on the way home from the range and have my life ruined.
 
How easy is that with 22lr (I'm pretty sure I qualify)? I see shotgunner's buy that many rounds frequently. That smells like a very special kind of BS.
 
Nope. Not true, and if you're going to post something like this, you should provide a reference corroborating it.
 
Corroborating it? I think my intent has been misunderstood.
I wasn't trying to say that it was true, I just wanted to know if there was any truth to the rumor. A quick Google search revealed nothing on the subject, so I came here.
Like I said, I just wanted to be on the safe side of things.

Perhaps the rumor began from someone wanting to stop ammo inflation and hoarding?
 
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Yep, it is rumor. You get that in the gun world. I'll let it run for a bit to see if someone has some real info on who might have started it for historical purposes.

The gun store told me that Obama passed a rule that all ammo has ingredients in powder that makes it inert after a year. Oh NO :eek:

:D
 
It comes up every time a gun owner gets busted for something and the local paper finds out he has X number of guns and X number of rounds in his house. Now he is a gun nut with probable ties to a militia and has an arsenal for which no practical purpose can be found. If his dog isn't a cocker spaniel or a poodle it will probably be a craxed attack dog and all his neighbors will be shocked to find out they were living so cl0se to danger.

Nothing said about book collectors or stamp collectors but guns and bullets are fear factor words in the lexicon of journalists that sell advertising. Let us get excited and foam at the mouth and sell those papers get those TV ratings up. Then the rumor starts up. I have heard it as low as 250 rounds for any caliber.

I would be in such deep doo with the press in Boston Massachusetts or Newark New Jersey but here in my little hut in the woods I am pretty typical.
 
My house (college house with roommates) was broken into back in spring break, luckily nothing gun related was taken (all brought home for safekeeping during vacations). But the cops did note the Yugo crate full of AK ammo, Spam can of 8mm mauser, 50cal ammo can full of Wolf AK, and a 1000rd case of Federal .40 cal. When my roommate (house owner) called the cops a few days later for an update, he was greeted with the detective saying, "oh right, the house with all that ammo" in a sarcastic tone (or so he says). And he even called the wrong detective in a different precinct of our city, so apparently word spreads.
Note sure what help that is, but I felt like sharing :p
 
That's big help. It means that even though you may not officially make the terror list, the word spreads.
 
Nobody wants the responsibility for watching me. I even sent in my own name. They said they were too busy tracking down people with more than 2499 rounds of a single caliber of ammo.
 
not yet Wild, Me Too!!!

Seriously though, what do you have to do to get on the list? I don't think this has ever been stated.
If you are on the list and appeal do they tell you why you were put on? I think not.t trying to fly.

Is it possible this would get you put on the list? Considering the above two points I would say yes. Does it? I seriously doubt it.

I had twice that in 22LR in April. I think I am down below it now. I gave some to friends in need and shot a bit myself:) If it starts showing up in shelves I will get back though.
 
I don't know about being put on the Terrorist watch list. But I read in my NRA's America's first freedom, about a guy getting a visit from the Secret Service after he purchased 1k rounds on the internet...

But it doesn't tell you any of his background...

He may have needed the visit, maybe not... You don't know.
 
I don't know about being put on the Terrorist watch list. But I read in my NRA's America's first freedom, about a guy getting a visit from the Secret Service after he purchased 1k rounds on the internet...

But it doesn't tell you any of his background...
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Right. In the last two years, I have made purchased of multiple 1000s of rounds of ammo at a single time and certainly have never been visited by the Secret Service.

Of all the agencies to be visited by, the Secret Service? That seems a bit far-fetched.
 
you guys got it all wrong

they were being literal :P

"purchase 2500 rounds or more and GET a Free Terror Watch" ..it is all the rage in this falls fashion line up. I mean heck they had Terror Cards ..a watch doesn't seem all to far fetched lol

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