Not too many years ago, by my lifetime's reckoning, if a person mentioned a possible abortion, they would have been run out of town. Not too long ago, "In God We Trust" was on every piece of currency in the U.S. Not too long ago, ballgames were opened with prayers. Gun bans can and probably will happen, sooner or later. What's to stop it? The Constitution has become just a reference point in passing for liberal lawmakers and judges. It no longer exists in reality. Today we have a Democrat-controlled House, Senate, and Presidency, and a Supreme Court one justice away from being totally liberal, and that one will be installed during the Obama administration without doubt. Any outcry on behalf of the American gun owners didn't take place last November...the pocketbook and isolationism will win out over guns every time in this day and age. The Thought Police will see to that. Yell all you want to...the media has to air it before it gets heard, and they won't.
Times aren't really changing...times are progressing down the same road that began for real about 70 years ago. I despise it because of my grandchildren...they will never know the freedom and values we (meaning myself and others like me) once held, even if we try our best to teach those to them.
Yes, there is a shortage of ammo and components here in Central Texas also. I have enough, though not through hoarding, to last me the rest of my hunting lifetime....the older I get, the less I feel a real need to shoot every time I get in the blind. With fewer and fewer places to hunt and shoot, I can only hope my grandchildren will have some opportunity to enjoy what I have enjoyed since the age of 5. My fear and gut-feeling is that those days are numbered. I hope I'm wrong, but I don't think I am.