Bullet Bubble
The Bullet Bubble is a real phenomenon. Unable to realize that bullets will never cease to be produced or be outlawed in any way, gun owners are driving up the cost by frantically buying up every slug they see, which in turn causes other gun owners to freak out and rush to the store. People are hoarding them in hopes of cashing in--prices will only get higher! In a few years these people are going to wake up with a wildly overvalued arsenal and wonder why the New World Order never made them rich by outlawing bullets. Then they'll come hunting hat in hand to mommy government for a bailout.
I expect a similar bubble to develop around baked beans. Any post-apocalyptic traveler with a substantial amount of bullets and beans could run the show. Stock up.
On another note, we might as well give this guy a TV show.
posted by Matt Bors at
2:00 AM
6 Comments:
Almost exactly the same thing happened in 1999 when the hunker-in-a-bunker crowd went into an orgy of generator buying. Come March of 2000 or so, there were ads everywhere for people trying to dump the damn things "like new!" at ludicrously low rates.
Not as likely to happen with the ammo; you can always take it out to the range and shoot with it. Though the spike in sales, ongoing since last year, is troubling.
"Not as likely to happen with the ammo; you can always take it out to the range and shoot with it."
True, but that's going to be an expensive ass session at the firing range.
Maybe I'm just tired but that nut on youtube makes as much sense as anyone else on TV these days.
Not just the New World Order! Zombie Apocalypse, Mad Max style post-nuclear exchange, and The Chinese Invasion are made more survivable by stocking up ammo and guns! At least, those were the most memorable reasons given to me when I went to the gun show last weekend.
I must say though, that there is something kind of heartwarming about the little 70yr old woman selling deactivated grenades and replacement fuses for them at the same table, right next to the guy selling Nazi paraphernalia.
Wait until the movie "The Road" comes out - then you'll see bullet buying in earnest.
The unnamed apocolypse in Mad Max was actually peak oil, I believe.
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