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No lawmen bothering this guy as he makes a reasonable profit for himself while ensuring the people he sells to aren’t getting ripped off: https://nypost.com/2020/04/06/brooklyn-street-vendor-says-he-sells-2k-worth-of-protective-equipment-a-day/ This is the good side of the street-level free...

I have a Winchester Model 67 as well. Manufactured in 1947. An old man flagged me down on patrol in Brooklyn in 2009 and gave it to me, said he had no use for it and that I looked like someone who would appreciate it. It was so strange how correct he was. One of my favorite rifles.

Uh, while he might try to butt heads with me regularly, I have not responded to a single post of his for at least a year, per mod requests. No good will come of it so it is pointless. I don't talk to people like that respectfully in real life, I certainly won't do it online. And with all due...

I wish, but then again have no clue where I’d put that much.

Well, one correction. He tried to do that. He currently possesses none of it and won’t be getting any of it back. He’s just a little ugly bitch now that most people hate.

You just described every thread on this forum!

He’ll have to address the criminal aspect as well. He was charged with coughing on the agents if I recall correctly.

Also covered in the articles.

Again, you’re leaving out the middle man (conveniently) who artificially created a shortage and attempted to sell at an unnatural markup. Remember WAY back when I mentioned concert tickets myself? When the concert tickets are expensive because Led Zeppelin has finally decided to get back...

I like Spat, I didn’t threaten to kill him. I don’t agree with much that he says anymore but he’s not stupid and articulates himself well. Unfortunately others here forget how to read when they see an opposing view. Skimming just now, I saw something about me having stated I have 65,000 rounds...

I don’t know. Best way to find out is to put your money where your mouth is.

Are you him? Why would the words sting if not (I know you aren’t)? Sorry, I’m blunt. That’s what he is. It’s not a stretch. If Tony the mobster, my neighbor and blood brother did it, I’d call him out just the same (and be willing to hit his door full kit as well). I don’t flap.

They were no more the topic of this discussion than half the shit apologists mentioned here. Post an article and I’ll give my thoughts on them too. I think I know the case you are referring to. If so, they deserve to be dirted too. I understand that it’s common here to deal with discussions...

Come on, judge by what I was responding to, words in context. Repete said some shit about my feelings if the hoarders fought back. If they did, they’d be dead, and I’d be happy for that. That’s wrong? Ideally they cough like nancy boys, get tackled and get their shit taken, which is what...

You should stand up for them. Show all the flappers that you’re for real. Also I’d be happy that the hoarders were dead and their stash was given to those who need it now to save lives.

Thankfully Trump is overriding his love for foreign money.

I’m focusing on the one closest to me, a mindset I’ve dealt with many times. But point taken.

You said “want” twice. This isn’t about want.

Exactly. Resources will be directed in this fight where they are needed. That’s how people who get things done operate. Everyone else just sits around and complains.

We’ve argued this for too long. You know why they won’t get 700x artificial markup? Because men with guns will just take them instead. If your heroes want to defend their wares, they should get some guns. Nothing more to argue. It’s pointless.

The cost is what all of these companies (and schiesters) were paying a few weeks ago, which apparently included enough of a profit margin that no one was complaining. It’s artificial. If 3M can’t get the material necessary for production, then the price naturally goes up. If hospitals can’t get...

Karen and her massive mini-van rolling up to Costco every day lol. From start I was perplexed about the toilet paper thing. Very few people in this whole entire country don’t have access to a shower immediately next to their toilet bowl. It makes no sense.

Awesome Trump speech about these assholes right now (and more!) Get it where it needs to be Mr. President!

"Others" are of very dubious legality in NY just to own. Hunting has nothing to do with it. If it is legal to own, then you can hunt with it during firearms season with a 5rd magazine. The issue is that they are most likely NOT legal to own in NY and would fall under the Safe Act definition of...

If those people exist, maybe it is time they reach out to the appropriate agencies and start negotiating reasonable profit for themselves. Something south of 700% maybe?

But the government isn’t confiscating ALL of them. That was never the conversation here util Spat just SAID it was to bolster his argument. The government (state or federal) has not and will not confiscate ALL masks (or anything else). They haven’t stopped stores that typically sell these items...

Because they are needed desperately now in a national pandemic and the people who require their use for the greater good are having a very hard time procuring them. Times like this, the greater good of society trumps your right to be a profiteering scumbag. That’s it, that’s my entire...

I don’t disagree, but I told Will I‘d converse with him again so I have to answer some of his analogies. ;)

Exactly. If the government was at the doors of every costco arresting toilet paper hoarders, I wouldn’t agree with it at all. Conflating a situation like that with THE FACTS OF THESE CASES is total nonsense.

You’re conveniently leaving out that the people in question were actively attempting to sell the items at a markup during the crisis. This is the problem with the constant hypotheticals. I’m talking about the actual people/incidents mentioned in the posted articles and the facts therein. You...

Intentionally buying to hoard, drive up resale value and then profit at the expensive of the immediate need of frontline troops during a war? Yes, absolutely. Now don't make up your own interpretations of my words like Spat did and turn it into ALL ammo. The above is very clear.

I doubt he meant rifle vs shotgun vs bow vs other. Op, you’re better off checking a thread about simply owning “others”. Hunting is besides the point. Take a gander, there’s a few.

Some past member just wasted a ton of time posting some nonsense I see. That’s great. ...and still the FBI will continue doing this. Love it.

These weren’t “preppers”. They’re savages attempting to exacerbate a shortage so they can profit - immensely - off of life saving equipment. This isn’t the fatso in his bunker who thinks he’s going to outlive the cockroaches. It’s Schlomo the Shiester who’s motive is profit.

Jesus man. Really? You really think that the government is going to come down on people who have 5, 10 or even 100 masks at home to protect themselves, and therefore think they shouldn’t go after people who are hoarding tens or hundreds of thousands AND being caught trying to sell them at 700x...

Saltwater, it’s because the price didn’t change. The companies that make and sell these products are pumping them out as fast as they can and selling them at the same price they have always been. Scumbag opportunists are then buying them solely to hoard so they can jack up the price. That’s...

Do you really think that’s how this started? Do you really think the FBI is going to come for you because you have 10 masks at home? Come on man, you’re reasonable. This type of “logic” is how we end up with weirdos who think price gouging is the best way to solve this pandemic. Don’t become one.

You don’t NEED to fix up your house RIGHT NOW. You can wait until the price drops. Nurses and doctors who NEED to save lives NEED to do it NOW. Which is why the opposing view is just online flapping and intellectual posturing, while in reality, the FBI is seizing masks from hoarders that need...

Comedy always hits the spot!

How many ice cream sprinkles do you have?

SBA, a much STRONGER union. This, predictably, has become just another example of the looniness of many of the members here, even in the face of an epic pandemic. One being so strongly set in his ways that he... hates the government enough to work for them in a very obviously non-essential job...

Show me ALL, thank you. Further conversation until we’re past that would be pointless.

Can you show me with quotes where I said I wanted the government in charge of all supplies? Thanks. I’ll wait. Also, you contradicted yourself in the above post. Re-read it. EDIT: twice, not just once.

Hahaa this is awesome. People here gonna drop dead of anger: https://nypost.com/2020/04/02/white-house-sends-nypd-protective-gear-in-operation-blue-bloods/

This forum makes itself look bad all the time. To any normal person reading most threads we’re a bunch of anti-government nuts, who now apparently want the government to stop helping hospitals get critical supplies.

They will just kill them then, which I’m ok with as well.

More fantasies! Yay! These conversations are awesome relief from the reality of this pandemic.

Read closer. Spat actually stated (and then based on a statement of mine, restated) that price gouging and hoarding is actually the best way to get supplies to those that need it. As for “precedent” - ie, slippery slope and hypotheticals - you should know by now that I don’t use that type of...

Thankfully the government is finally doing this and will continue to so our health care workers can continue to fight this pandemic with at least a modicum of protection. Every time my job gives me an N95 mask, I drop it off at my mother’s house because she can’t get them at work because of...

Exactly, I'll wait. Because that's not happening and that's not what this thread is about. I don't play the hypothetical nonsense game.