He had SIX magazines . . .

[Yaworski]

Just the storage and then the cost! How much are magazines these days? $20 each?

Get them on sale for $10 each.

I'm sure that my 75 or more 1911 mags would really give you pause.

 

[Yaworski]

1000 rounds, and a gun. But they don’t match each other.

You're looking at it through the lens of 2025.

Ca 1990, I had bought my first 9mm. Whilst waiting for state approval, I bought 2,000 rounds of 9mm ammo and had it delivered to my office.

Ca 1980, I didn't even own a gun yet but knew that I was going to buy a .357 magnum. A gun shop was having a sale on .38 spl ammo so I bought 500 rounds.

Or . . . his 9mm is at his friend's apartment and he foolishly had the ammo sent to his dorm because he didn't know how the boxes would be marked.

 

[Yaworski]

What would happen if they ban free speech on colleges too?

They have at many schools. They have "free speech zones" or the authorities come to visit you if you say something that offends a member of a special group.

 

[Jakeintexas]

I’m trying to follow this conversation and you keep using the abbreviation SA



What does SA mean? I tried looking it up and found Sexual Assault but nothing that fits the context of what you are saying.

Situational Awareness. Sorry.

 

[s4s4u]

What would happen if they ban free speech on colleges too?

Already done!

 

[el caminero]

My senior year i began a lifelong habit of carrying what started out as a bookbag. Got busted, it was reported i had four magazines and a gun in it. Was released on recognisance, and had to give them up. I quit carrying things like that the rest of the year. Four mags. 3 Mad and a Cracked. They dident like finding the watermellon bubbalicious, either. There were trolls about in those days, but thats not what we called them stinkers back then.

 

[DocSkinner]

Well he shouldn’t have had ammo delivered to his dorm room.

But what do you need 50 magazines for? 50??? That’s just a lot of space. Do you switch them up so they get equal time?

"But what do you need 50 magazines for?" - What do you need an AR for? What do you need more than one gun for? Seriously, you are going down that road?

Old timer warning -

Back in my day in Idaho, it was common for people to have rifles and shotguns in their dorm rooms. Nobody really gave it a second thought.

 

[RugerForMe]

Times have a changed.. I guess we weren't nutjobs back in the 70's and 80's.

When I was in college in the early 1980's we had shotguns and rifles in our dorm rooms. Most of us hunted and fished every chance we got back then. We would skin rabbits and squirrels in the parking lot. Someone was always cooking a stew or grilling something in the community kitchen or outside on the community gas grill. Good times were had by all and we typically shared with the non outdoors people.

 

[v35]

My coworker was floored that anyone would have six magazines until I said that I have about fifty for my ARs. That blew his mind. "Why?!"

"About fifty" is about right.

I don't know how many I have. If I happened to know the exact number it probably wouldn't be enough.

 

[Dialigike]

I’m not against guns on school grounds. I think teachers should be taught to use guns and carry them in schools.

But a case of 9mm to a school dorm? No. Not at all.

And no, I don’t know where the happy medium is. But there are too many drunk college kids in dorms. Those are the kids that don’t need easy access to loaded weapons.

They are adults. Ever heard of shootings on disarmed campuses? No one here can tell whether anyone is mature enough for firearms. All coeds should conceal carry.

 

[Larryburford]

You can't have too many mags or too much ammo

 

[neilin]

And yet., many states prohibit carrying in a bar.

Yes, they do, but I still think it is not right.

 

[neilin]

I fully agree. Unfortunately many states blatantly infringe on the 2A in various ways.

When it gets to private property — like the property of a private university — it gets murkier. A property owner does have the right to exclude firearms on their private property — even if it’s idiotic.

While having and carrying shouldn’t be a crime one could certainly face consequences for carrying on private property (ie getting kicked out).

You kind of open a can of worms when you start restricting property owners rights.

Are you saying all universities are private property?

 

[XUSNORDIE]

They are adults. Ever heard of shootings on disarmed campuses? No one here can tell whether anyone is mature enough for firearms. All coeds should conceal carry.

"All"?.....I have recently put two (02) kids through top Div 1 schools.......one (01)male and one (01) female....their campuses were very anti gun.......no way they were chancing it. Now that said.....we know parents who had kids at VT........not as simple as most think

Like saying "arm teachers!"....yeah no..... not the 99% of the ones I know who despise firearms and conservatives......

 

[gramps]

When a soldier goes on patrol, how much ammo do they carry?
gramps

 

[Yaworski]

Are you saying all universities are private property?

Some are, some aren't. However, even public universities can restrict access and set their own rules just like military bases. I attended two universities and one college, all three had a published policy that anyone who did not have business with the school could be told to leave the campus. The only people I've seen kicked off a campus were people who were trying to disrupt the school activities.

 

[neilin]

Some are, some aren't. However, even public universities can restrict access and set their own rules just like military bases. I attended two universities and one college, all three had a published policy that anyone who did not have business with the school could be told to leave the campus. The only people I've seen kicked off a campus were people who were trying to disrupt the school activities.

Of course, this brings me back to the constitution. I cannot find anything in the 2nd Amendment that says the right to keep and bear arms can be infringed at universities.

 

[MaxMan]

Ammo to a college dorm? Asking for it. Should not be an issue. Six magazines, 50 magazines, your money your choice. I won't question your number of magazines if you won't question my KT CP33 on my gun list.

 

[XUSNORDIE]

When a soldier goes on patrol, how much ammo do they carry?
gramps

That can depend on several things....maybe a lot or maybe not much....

 

[eveled]

The 1966 U. of Texas Tower “sniper” Charles Whitman was pinned down for about half of his murderous rampage by students shooting back with the deer rifles they kept in their dorm rooms & nearby apartments.
I watched that firsthand myself from a distance of about 300 yards while crouched behind a car.

I didn’t know about the students shooting back.

Pretty crazy thing to experience first hand.

 

[Yaworski]

I didn’t know about the students shooting back.

If you believe the movies, all sorts of people were shooting back.

 

[Yaworski]

Of course, this brings me back to the constitution. I cannot find anything in the 2nd Amendment that says the right to keep and bear arms can be infringed at universities.

The constitution doesn't say that you can infringe on the 2nd Amendment in your living room but yet you can.

 

[CAJUNCHEF]

I am too.

If the college though has a ‘no guns’ policy it’s probably enforceable and one can get kicked out of school for it. For a ‘normal’ student that would mean one abide by it, find a different school, or figure a way around it. In the latter case one needs be covert and use high SA to ensure one isn’t caught.

I worked for an employer for a time who had a ‘no guns’ policy. I carried anyhow but am pretty certain if found out I could have been fired without recourse. No big deal (one can always find a new job) but it did mean I needed to be prudent and careful while CCWing. Wasn’t the only one carrying there fwiw but there are stupid lawyers and stupid employers out there and I can either spend all my life fighting them or just find a way around their idiocy.

Most carry in ‘gun free’ zones knowing that more than 85% of mass shootings happen in these areas. It’s idiotic they exist at all but fighting them takes time. I can’t keep other people from doing dumb things but that doesn’t mean I need get drawn into their stupidity.

It’s just when doing so one need be very covert and conceal well.

This is the important point. One of my clients recently moved their office kitchen operations into a nice building in downtown of a big Southern city, Nice place during the day, but at nighttime walking to the parking lot can be sketchy.
It's a gun free building. I'm sure the criminals observe that policy.

There is no way in hell that I will leave my pistol all day in my truck. I've already had one stolen in another city,
My 1911 is in my computer packpack all day . At night, last to leave, I carry the 1911. I maintain discretion at all times. About half of the team are combat Army and Marine veterans.
I'm not alone in carry, but I would not have a case of ammo shipped there.

 

[pharmer]

Magazines? They don't take up too much space and I like to read a bit. Joe

 

[Armybrat]

If you believe the movies, all sorts of people were shooting back.

After the return fire started, it sounded like a Vietnam war firefight.
Instead of leisurely leaning over the observation deck parapet to shoot at random people below as he had done for the first half of the massacre, Whitman was forced to lie low and fire throught the drainage downspouts.
That undoubtedly limited the potential casualties.
Of course by that time the cops had also brought some rifles to the scene too.
One of the first killed by Whitman in the early stages was Patrolman Billy Speed who had started shooting from ground level with his .38 Special service revolver.

 

[neilin]

The constitution doesn't say that you can infringe on the 2nd Amendment in your living room but yet you can.

Well, I took the U.S. Constitution to apply to anywhere in the United States. I do not have to do business in any establishment that infringes on that right. Even private universities get some money from the government.

 

[neilin]

Some are, some aren't. However, even public universities can restrict access and set their own rules just like military bases. I attended two universities and one college, all three had a published policy that anyone who did not have business with the school could be told to leave the campus. The only people I've seen kicked off a campus were people who were trying to disrupt the school activities.

There have been people killed on military bases who might have lived had their right to keep and bear arms had not been infringed upon.

 

[Jakeintexas]

Are you saying all universities are private property?

No.

 

[Yaworski]

There have been people killed on military bases who might have lived had their right to keep and bear arms had not been infringed upon.

Not germane to the question at hand.

 

[18 r0bert]

When a soldier goes on patrol, how much ammo do they carry?
gramps

alli can and i did.