I still think education is still probably the best bet. Simply put it a good chunk of Americans have never seen a gun in real life. They only see it in movie theaters and shows where it's used to murder people. So of course they are going to turn around and freak out when a guy buys a bunch of ammo at once, even if he just wants to shoot some clay targets with his pals, because they think he's going to outright murder a whole bunch of people.Keetah Spacecat, April 04, 2013, 12:01:02 am
As with many commodities, ammo is cheaper when you buy in bulk. That's why people buy lots of it at once. I myself bought about 2,000 rounds of 5.45mm for my AK because it cost about six cents per round that way instead of ten cents. I'm down to about 1,200 right now, because I take a couple of hundred rounds to the range with me whenever I want to shoot, and it goes faster than you might think.
Still sometimes I wonder when people say they are using assault rifles to hunt with. It seems like it won't leave you very much left of the animal using one of those over a rifle.
Many hunting rifles are semi-automatic. The vast, vast majority of what people would call "assault rifles" in the US are also semi-auto only. So what's the difference on the business end?
Here's a Ruger Mini-14 with a target stock on it:
Here's an "assault rifle" AR-15:
They both have semi-automatic-only operation and accept detachable clips of varying capacity. In addition, they both shoot the same round:
You have the same bullet coming out of two different clip-fed semi-automatic firearms. So what's the difference? One of them looks scary, like that gun what looks like the one in that war show I seen on the picture boxes they got down there at the Sears. States also have hunting clip restrictions, since it's easier to say you can't hunt with clips over
x rounds than it is to specify which guns you can't hunt with by model. They do the same thing for shotguns and waterfowl hunting, often limiting clips to two or three rounds at most.