monkeylizard

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I think WND may not be telling the whole story there, but either way, yeah, that story always makes me think twice about keeping my Costco membership. In the end, I rarely go there because I don't really need a 5 gallon jar of pickles and 250 tube socks. I keep the membership because it keeps Mrs. 'lizard happy with her glasses and contacts.

CZ9MM,   What you're missing is that the sellers (or re-sellers to be accurate) are manipulating the supply to drive that equilibrium price up.   Scenario: You and I are the entire buying (demand side) market and we each want some ammo, let's say 2 bricks of .22 each. A store called Wally's represents the entire supply side of the market.   Week 1 - Wally's is happy to sell those to us for $20 each. They know through market research that they can sell them for $25 each, but will sell fewer. They're a low-margin, high-volume store so they set the price at $20. They have one in stock, and should have some more in next week. I get there first, so I buy the brick at $20 and you get none.   Week 2 - I still want another brick and you still want two. You get the brick for $20 'cause you get there first, and we both have a little something to shoot, but we'll have to wait until next week when they expect a larger shipment of 3 bricks to show up to top off our supplies. We'll each plan to get our last brick and there'll be one left for later. Fantastic, right?   Week 3 - When the truck unloads at Wally's a fellow, (we'll call him BBJ) buys all 3 bricks before we can get there leaving the shelf bare. Now BBJ doesn't want to shoot them. For all we know, he doesn't even have a .22 firearm. He tells us in the parking lot that he'll gladly sell us each a box for $50. We say "screw you" and go back to shooting our remaining boolits from our 1st brick.   Week 4 - Wally's gets another couple of bricks in, but whaddayaknow, our old friend BBJ has scooped up both boxes and again offers to sell them for $50 in the parking lot. Now this time, you and I are getting pretty low on our supply and could really use that extra brick, but comeonman! $50? ain't gonna happen so we go home empty handed again.   Week 5 - Wally's doesn't get any on the truck. that's kind of normal for Wally's. Every week doesn't always bring in more .22 because some weeks there's still some sitting around from prior shipments.   Week 6 - 2 bricks arrive and BBJ snakes them both. You and I are both totally out from our 1st bricks. Want to buy some for $50 yet? Sorry...you can't.....this week our buddy BBJ wants $75 a brick.   Week X - Week Y repeat ad nauseum.   So when I finally break down and buy one brick from the asshole, does that mean that $75 is the equilibrium price? Keep in mind that the actual supply to the market from the manufacturer has not changed. Wally's still gets its customary weekly shipment just as it always has.   What about when our neighbor, Mr. Newb, gets a new .22 rifle and needs some ammo for it? This would normally be an honest increase in the demand side. But Mr. Newb heard on the news that maybe the UN, or Obama, or the EPA or Ronald McDonald is going to ban .22 so he goes to get some from Wally's. Finding none for weeks on end, he panics and buys from BBJ. Does that make $75 the new market equilibrium price?   Supply and Demand economics is based on the principle of free flow of product and cash between the maker of a product and a consumer of a product. Prices are bumped up somewhat by a value-added supply chain. Winchester wants to sell 1,000,000 rounds at a time and will sell them for $.03 each and you have to pick them up at their factory. You and I only want to buy 1,000 at a time and can't/won't drive to their factory. Wally's buys the million rounds and resells them in smaller lots closer to us. They add value by doing this for us and we reward them with an extra $.01 per round.   What BBJ is doing is not adding any value. The lot size, location, and product are exactly the same as how Wally's delivered them. Winchester still got their $.03 per round and Wally's made their $.01 per round. BBJ is manipulating the supply by monopolizing it as best he can. He's also manipulating the demand by starving the market of its usual supply to increase the feeling of panic amongst the consumers. That is NOT free-market enterprise. It's price-fixing market-manipulation at its worst.

What KahrMan said....except I know the one in West Nashville has a large "No firearms permitted on property" sign between the entrance and the exit. It's not 39-17-1359 compliant, but the intent is clear. I haven't seen that same sign at the Franklin location.   We used to have Sam's, but switched to Costco. Mrs. 'lizard likes their eyeglass frame selection better.

I heard it was an Official Red Ryder Carbine-Action Two-Hundred-Shot Range Model Air Rifle

    That only works if there's an alternative place to buy. If a bunch of dudes show up with big holding tanks at every gas station every time a delivery truck shows up and bleed them dry at their $3.45/gal asking price, then setup shop in an empty lot across the street selling it for $10/gal, you would just say "oh well....they can ask what they want for it, I don't have to buy it from them." ?

turkeydad, it sounds to me like you took a good opportunity to move some old stock and turn a reasonable profit. I have no problem with that. Even if you had sold at the inflated prices, you'd have only been gouging and not perpetuating the problem because your were moving old stock and actually increasing the available supply (very slightly). The scalpers are perpetuating the current problem by both buying the limited supply and gouging on their resale price.   I've sold some of my old stock to people who were ammo-poor and made a buck or two on a box here and there because the fair market (not crazy market) price had simply gone up since I bought it. I've also given away about as much as I've sold over the years.

  Give it time. We're only on page 4 and the night is young.

Do you know how to make a small fortune in the airline industry?                 Start with a large fortune and buy an airline.

  My first thought was that a sasquatch suit on the far edge of the camera's range would be way funny.

It would have been funny if Fuzzy had said "yeah, but one of my signatures on eBay is worth two of his."

well, yeah. But that doesn't tell me anything about "legislative intent". Do lawyers arguing their cases use "legislative intent" to try to skew the court's interpretation of the written law?

Tinfoil....duct tape....cardboard     Kentucky Conan needs none of that

This is a  side-bar from http://www.tngunowners.com/forums/topic/69954-cop-threatens-to-shoot-lawful-cc-owner-then-arrests-him/ I didn't want to keep derailing that topic it any further.     What role, if any, does "legislative intent" play with the enforcement of a law?   If lawmakers' discussions are such that one could infer they mean the law to do one thing, but a plain reading of their enacted law clearly does something else, does their intent matter? If so, who's intent? It's not like they all think about an issue exactly the same way so any legislator may disagree with another over intent yet both vote 'Yea' on the bill.

I started a new thread on legislative intent to keep from derailing this one any further. I think this side-bar conversation has some valid discussion left in it, so here we go: http://www.tngunowners.com/forums/topic/70011-legislative-intent/           ETA: Robert quoted me before I edited this post with the link to the new thread.

  That's the key.

After what he has said about the parking lot bill, if I had an explanation of legislative intent from Ron Ramsey in one hand, and a pile of dog poop in the other, I'd have 2 handfulls of dog poop.   I don't know the man, and don't mean to impugn his character, but anyone with a 5th grade reading level could see that the bill doesn't say what he said it says. I don't know why he seemed shocked to hear that the AG also thinks it doesn't say what he said it says.

From the crazy shots I saw the Top Shot All-Stars pulling off, I'd think a Volquartsen Custom 10-22 of some flavor would be towards the top of any list of crazy-accurate .22 rifles. Lots of options to make it "yours".

  Please, not another thread about Memphis......       :D

Baby in #5 is like 'Say what?!?!? Get me outta here!!!!"   Is that a goat in the next to last pic?

I was a big Star Wars fan in my younger days. Back when we were all signing up for free e-mail accounts about 15 years ago I wanted a Star Wars related one, but the common ones were of course all taken. I didn't want one with an unremarkble number tacked on (seriously, who would remember BobaFett1057@ hotmail.com?). So I kept trying random Star Wars related names until I found one that was available.   A monkeylizard is that thing in Jabba the Hutt's palace in Return of the Jedi that sits at the end of his tail and is kind of like his pet. My avatar is a cartoon version of the same. http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20070301021921/starwars/images/c/c1/Kowakian_monkey-lizard_AA.jpg

Since you liked Tin Angel, you may want to check out Bound'ry. They get creative with their flavors in a way that's similar to Tin Angel. http://boundryrestaurant.com/     I should have mentioned Soulshine Pizza too. It's a newer place on Division (close to Vandy) that's getting good press. I haven't tried them yet. Live music on some nights. It's a regional "chain" that started in Mississippi (3 locations there) and added Nashville as their 4th and latest location.

How does that Greek surplus stuff from CMP do in these? I'm ready to order one and need something to feed it of course.

Loveless Cafe is posted with gunbusters.

You gotta buy some property with a bat-filled cave. Make yer own.  :D   well...black powder anyway. I have no idea how one would make modern gunpwder.