I bet if you added up the number of people who leave the military after their intial enlistment/commitment plus the number of people retiring it's probably pretty close to 200,000 a year. As long as we don't do something stupid, like drive the economy off a fiscal cliff, everything should be fine.
I'm on Joint Forces (the 5th test). I completed all 7 tests easily today, but the exercises are killing my will to live. I've only got 1/4 done so far.
IMHO a full-up assault weapons ban has about a snowball's chance in hell of passing Congress right now so if I were looking to buy an AR I'd wait out the price gouging. I'd be less surprised to see a high-cap magazine ban come about, but then again less surprised than "a snowball's chance in hell" is still pretty long odds. Like others have said the votes just aren't there in the GOP-controlled House and it's not exactly a slam-dunk in the Senate either.
GL getting the rifle you're looking for and personally I'm not going to pay too much. After the 21st of December came and went I think the zombie apocalypse is on hold and any guns/ammo purchases can stand to wait until prices go back to sorta reasonable.
$5 says there's a shit-ton of "unregistered" gun owners not on that map. Someone should overlay "gun crime" locations over the "lawful owners" map--another $5 says there will be very few dots that line up.
Hey fellas - a bit off topic from the current ammo crisis (which is a BITCH, btw)...
I'm PCSing to Osan in September for a one-year unaccompanied.
I want to take my H&K P2000 (9mm). Has anyone ever done something like that? I imagine I'd have to keep the gun on base, and that's not a problem. I just want to shoot while I'm in Korea so I don't get shitty at it.
Thanks!