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Blast it Tom! said:
I could go to the morbid humor side and note that the mayor could've also added "And if you won't stop shooting each other, at least aim better so they go straight to the morgue instead of clogging up the ER and hospital beds!"
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I think hoping that people's aim is worse so they miss each other (and everyone else)(as well as anything of value) is a better option.
 
I worked at a gunstore/pistol range in MD during the early '90s. We were seeing a bunch of homies from Baltimore coming to rent guns on the range, paying with mainly 5s and 10s. They couldn't shoot for ****, but would go through $300-400 worth of range time and ammo every weeekend. We made it a point to go out on the range and set up next to them when there was some idle time. We had fun with it, showing off a bit, and I once overheard one of them say "damn, those white boys can shoot". They wanted us to show them how to shoot better.

We had the dilemma of showing them how to shoot better so they weren't hitting bystanders, but we decided that it probably increase the hazard to the police and we begged off, saying we weren't allowed to give lessons.

Suddenly they all stopped coming in, eventually one of them came back to use the range and he said that they'd had a shootout with a rival gang, some of them got killed, some were in jail.
 
I feel like Rev. Witherspoon in 1776 (the musical): "I have a sister who lives in Baltimore."
Secretary Thomson:
[reading Washington's letter] The situation is most desperate at the New Jersey training ground in New Brunswick, where every able bodied whore in the co... "WHORE?"... in the colonies has assembled. There are constant reports of drunkenness, desertion, foul language, naked bathing in the Raritan river, and an epidemic of the "French disease." I have placed this town off limits to all military personnel with the exception of officers. I beseech the congress to dispatch the War Committee to this place, in the hope of restoring some of the order and discipline we need to survive. Your obedient, G. Washington.
...
Rev. John Witherspoon:
There must be some mistake, I have an aunt who lives in New Brunswick.

Company: [laghs]
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(I grew up very near New Brunswick. Every time this was screened at Rutgers a cheer went up at "naked bathing in the Raritan river". But I digress.)
 
Sadly, Baltimore's mayor hates the police, and has done nothing to stem crime. Back in the fall, he said that he hoped cold weather would slow down gang violence.

The murder rate is rising very year, and they keep voting in these politicians think that we're all just good people and the violence will end itself one of these days.
 
I guess elections have consequences. The people of Baltimore have spoken; they are getting exactly what they wanted. :(
 
Devin Batten said:
It's great therapy while the adhesives dry. Not to mention ammo is an apocalypse trade good.
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I've thought about getting into reloading but I have too many hobbies already and I don't think I shoot enough to make it worth it. I go through about 500 rounds of 9mm, 500 rounds of .40S&W, 200 rounds of .380, 200 rounds of .308 and maybe 200 shells of 12GA all per year. What's the break even point after investing in the press, dies, powders, tumbler, etc.?
 
heada said:
I've thought about getting into reloading but I have too many hobbies already and I don't think I shoot enough to make it worth it. I go through about 500 rounds of 9mm, 500 rounds of .40S&W, 200 rounds of .380, 200 rounds of .308 and maybe 200 shells of 12GA all per year. What's the break even point after investing in the press, dies, powders, tumbler, etc.?
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That's a hard question to give a straight foreward answer, like asking whats the break even point of using RMS over DMS. I first started with reloading lighter recoil rounds for my 30-06 so my wife could shoot it. Using 30-06 i dropped my price per round from $2 commercial to about $1 or so. .45 acp to about $.20 per. Ive since gone even further than most in the way of actually casting my own lead projectiles for my .45, and .30-06.
 
heada said:
I've thought about getting into reloading but I have too many hobbies already and I don't think I shoot enough to make it worth it. I go through about 500 rounds of 9mm, 500 rounds of .40S&W, 200 rounds of .380, 200 rounds of .308 and maybe 200 shells of 12GA all per year. What's the break even point after investing in the press, dies, powders, tumbler, etc.?
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I still reload a Dillon progressive reloader but not as much as I used to. Break even depends on a lot of variables. Cost of lead, caliber for starters. After Sandy Hook many started reloading due to all the ammo shortages but then there became a shortage of primers and powders and prices went up (which could happen again). I just got an email from Powder Valley who is a big seller of reloading supplies and they said this is only the 2nd in 20 years he has seen such a drastic increase in demand. Now is probably not the time to start reloading.
 
We have more shootings here in Charlotte than the virus :(
 
The death rate in North Korea is rising, but amazingly, no one there has the virus.
 

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