But I hear ammunition goes bad. But you can make your own, I don't know if the bulk product have the same shelf life though

*Newtown.

Magazines are not ammo. They're the devices that feed ammo into a firearm. They're sold empty--bullets have to be purchased separately.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magazine_(f…

The (now expired) assault weapons ban banned high capacity magazines. People are stocking up now because they believe a similar law to the old assault weapons ban will be enacted again.

Ammo may or may not go bad, but the modern stuff has a shelf life of 50 years or so. Maybe longer. Gunpowder keeps a long, long time too if stored correctly. And handmade rounds are no different in that respect from the factory-made ones. In fact, it's almost exactly the same process, just on a much smaller scale.

Newtown notwithstanding, I think a very significant majority of massacres have occurred at the hands of people who haven't stockpiled weapons and ammo until the time they decide to go shooting up people they've never met. So I'm not about to fear mass shootings any more than I already do.

Still, it's just one more piece of evidence that average gun nuts, like the average conservatives, have enlarged "fear centers" in their brains.

We should try to keep aspects of free guns like this in the news as well:

http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/13428-…

And it's not just individuals that need rescuing, it's communities that need jobs.

Time to call Gun Supremacist AmeriKKKans exactly what they are: Shameless child murderers.

gun nuts in bellevue celebrating seahawks win with players by shooting a bartender dead.

http://www.king5.com/news/cities/bellevu…

The stranger staff should take a group holiday and shoot some automatic weapons at Wades. Get familiar with the specs, nuances, and differences between the firearms they so roundly denounce without a shred of credibility. Merry Christmas Everywun!!!

Now another shooter has killed two firemen. Thanks to the relentless drumbeat of worthless fucks like Stranger "journalists", crazy people are now trying to outdo each other. Congratulations Stranger!

For being so afraid of gun regulation and confiscation, they sure seem to be doing everything in their power to make sure it happens.

The gun nuts are stocking up.

Back in March DHS awarded an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to this company:
http://www.atk.com/news-releases/atk-sec…

Then DHS, who does not fight wars with foreign nations, promptly ordered the maximum of 450 million rounds over five years, almost exclusively Jacketed Hollow Point bullets, which are banned by the Geneva convention and can only be used domestically:
http://www.businessinsider.com/us-immigr…

In late summer the National Weather Service ordered about 46,000 rounds of .40 S&W Jacketed Hollow Point bullets to be delivered to four locations – offices in Florida, New Jersey, Maine and Massachusetts:
http://www.businessinsider.com/the-natio…

The Social Security Administration put in an order for 174,000 rounds of .357 Sig Jacketed Hollow Point bullets, for locations in Baltimore, L.A., Detroit, Oklahoma City, Dallas, Houston, Atlanta, Denver, Philly, Pittsburgh and Seattle ...... What?
http://www.businessinsider.com/why-does-…

DHS to buy a further 750 million rounds of ammo:
http://rt.com/usa/news/dhs-ammo-rounds-s…

Merry Christmas.

@13 The Stranger's coverage has been to minimize the celebrity of the killer, and to scream about how he was enabled.

It's been appropriate.

But, I get your point that any acknowledgment of the killer's impact is, to some degree, fodder for the next.

If I could: Find every occurrence of the killer's name, everywhere and replace it with a numerical substitute forever more Something like: "selfish asshole 20121214-001".

@16 I like your idea of a numerical sub

@9 that was one of the caveats of living through the Bulls dynasty in Chicago. The better the team did the higher the body count.

Sounds like a very welcome boost to our nations economy at a time when we need it most... All rhetoric aside.

@11:

One does not need to know the precise mechanical operations of an internal combustion engine in order to competently drive an automobile, just as one does not need to know the intricacies of a binary-mode electronic digital computational device in order to be able to type drivel on the Internet.

Mental health care, anyone? No?