Coronavirus Count in Maryland (Baltimore, Frederick: purchases, beach, food)

[North Beach Person]

Originally Posted by DaveinMtAiry

I had heard about the run on guns and ammo as well. Can you guys please help me understand the need to load up on more guns and ammo? Are they planning on shooting the virus? Anticipating total anarchy where we will be shooting our neighbors over toilet paper?

What utter nonsense.

This is all I have:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPMMNvYTEyI

But then again, why did people need 50 4 packs of toilet paper, 20 gallons of orange juice, 30 cartons of eggs, 100 lbs. of flour (in 5 lb. bags), 40 gallons of milk, 50 or 60 containers of coffee creamer?

[DaveinMtAiry]

Originally Posted by North Beach Person

This is all I have:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPMMNvYTEyI

But then again, why did people need 50 4 packs of toilet paper, 20 gallons of orange juice, 30 cartons of eggs, 100 lbs. of flour (in 5 lb. bags), 40 gallons of milk, 50 or 60 containers of coffee creamer?

I can't hear the video as my wife is watching TV, but I get the idea. As for your list TP is still the only thing I can't find in the stores, as late as today. I haven't purchased a roll since this whole thing started, we need damned toilet paper!

[bufflove]

Originally Posted by DaveinMtAiry

I can't hear the video as my wife is watching TV, but I get the idea. As for your list TP is still the only thing I can't find in the stores, as late as today. I haven't purchased a roll since this whole thing started, we need damned toilet paper!

In MoCo a lot of the smaller markets and hardware stores still have TP. Maybe try calling around to any smaller shops like that around you? It's just big box stores that seem to have been cleared out by hoarders. Otherwise, Amazon has some no-name brands available.

[NJ2MDdude]

Originally Posted by DaveinMtAiry

I had heard about the run on guns and ammo as well. Can you guys please help me understand the need to load up on more guns and ammo? Are they planning on shooting the virus? Anticipating total anarchy where we will be shooting our neighbors over toilet paper?

What utter nonsense.

I think people are reacting to the policies of granting early release to nonviolent prisoners as well as giving police officers the discretion to suspend arrests for nonviolent offenses.

[North Beach Person]

Originally Posted by bufflove

In MoCo a lot of the smaller markets and hardware stores still have TP. Maybe try calling around to any smaller shops like that around you? It's just big box stores that seem to have been cleared out by hoarders. Otherwise, Amazon has some no-name brands available.

I was going to say similar. Maybe one of the local non-chain convenience stores, I know there are (or used to be) a few in the Mt. Airy area.

On the whole hoarding thing, it's just plain stupid. Even stuff no one ever eats got cleaned out of the stores. Dish soap. I mean dish soap? People won't buy a house without a Bosch dishwasher and they buy 15 bottles of dish soap to hand wash their dishes? Saltines? 7-Up? The list goes on and on.

[NJ2MDdude]

Originally Posted by North Beach Person

Why no, I'm not. I had a tragic boating accident a couple years ago, it capsized, while duck hunting and I lost all my shotguns and rifles.

More seriously, I don't know. My youngest son was at the Dunkirk Wal-Mart last night and he said people were lined up to buy shotguns. Which, if they didn't have any in a storage area, means three or four people since that store isn't known for a deep firearms inventory. In fact it didn't carry any the first few years it was open.

The other couple gun stores in the County I don't know. In fact I didn't even know about them until fairly recently. They don't advertise and their locations are way off the beaten track.

The State of Maryland doesn't put shotgun buyers through the wringer like they do to handgun buyers. If I'm not mistaken, you can actually walk out the store with your new shotgun on the day of purchase. I wouldn't be surprised though if first-time gun buyers tried to buy a handgun or a regulated rifle without a license and waiting the required number of days.

[NJ2MDdude]

Just found this on YouTube: WMAR-2 news story of a Carroll County gun store.

Gun stores across the country are seeing an increase in sales due to fears of possible social unrest because of the coronavirus.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrK0CpbVt5g

[North Beach Person]

Originally Posted by NJ2MDdude

The State of Maryland doesn't put shotgun buyers through the wringer like they do to handgun buyers. If I'm not mistaken, you can actually walk out the store with your new shotgun on the day of purchase. I wouldn't be surprised though if first-time gun buyers tried to buy a handgun or a regulated rifle without a license and waiting the required number of days.

You're correct. The clerk can escort you to your vehicle and transfer the shotgun to you if you have a secure storage for it. However you are not allowed to buy any ammunition for it during the same purchase. You have to leave the store and come back in. And being Wal-Mart and being you just bought a shotgun they may not have any shells for it anyway since, at least here, they seem to heavy up on .30 caliber stuff.

Handguns and regulated rifles, which Wal-Mart doesn't carry anyway, forget about for now. The team that issues the "Not Prohibited" determination is probably "working from home". They've been two months behind for years.

What's funny is that I buy my guns in PA, and I think I'm done except for maybe one more, and the shop has very few AR platforms. You go to a shop here and that's all you see, which you saw on the wall in your clip.

[bufflove]

Originally Posted by DaveinMtAiry

I had heard about the run on guns and ammo as well. Can you guys please help me understand the need to load up on more guns and ammo? Are they planning on shooting the virus? Anticipating total anarchy where we will be shooting our neighbors over toilet paper?

What utter nonsense.

I think it's just hardwired human psychology when you're dealing with fear and a lack of control. Buying a weapon gives some people that illusion of regaining control even if it has no real practical purpose for the situation. Same thing with panic-buying food. Like NBP said, no one's actually going to end up needing the dozen boxes of saltines they bought. Buying them was just an instinctual way of reacting to an existential threat. Some people pack away food, some people sharpen spears. Some people Netflix and chill. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[DaveinMtAiry]

Originally Posted by bufflove

I think it's just hardwired human psychology when you're dealing with fear and a lack of control. Buying a weapon gives some people that illusion of regaining control even if it has no real practical purpose for the situation. Same thing with panic-buying food. Like NBP said, no one's actually going to end up needing the dozen boxes of saltines they bought. Buying them was just an instinctual way of reacting to an existential threat. Some people pack away food, some people sharpen spears. Some people Netflix and chill. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Yeah I think you are right. At first I was buying the civil unrest with prisoners being released here etc. But this ammo and gun rush is not only happening here, it's happening everywhere in the country. I don't believe these are all new gun owners, no it's a lot of people with a cabinet full of firearms and boxes of ammo feeling the need to purchase more as if anarchy is at our doorsteps. It's similar to the TP rush but a lot more concerning to me.

For grins I showed up on the Prepper board. Most are level headed but a few totally fit the stereotype of the prepper being a nut job in the woods ready to shoot any trespasser on site. Several said they would do just that, with total disregard to the fact that it could be a broken down motorist. That's what I mean by this is much scarier than the run on toilet paper.