• California authorities found a man illegally owning 248 guns and 1 million rounds of ammo.
  • The state attorney general said he also had 3,000 magazines and several grenades in his home.
  • The guns included 11 machine guns, 133 handguns, and 60 assault rifles, authorities said.
  • Bonehead
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    510 months ago

    A collector generally only collects guns, not ammo. You don’t need a million rounds for guns that are too valuable to actually use.

    • @aidan
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      510 months ago

      Collectors generally also like shooting not as valuable guns?

      • @ickplant
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        610 months ago

        You don’t need to hoard millions of ammo to go shooting. Most people don’t.

      • Bonehead
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        410 months ago

        You don’t need a million rounds for guns that aren’t too valuable to actually use either. No average person needs a million rounds for any reason.

        • @[email protected]
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          610 months ago

          If he didn’t have those guns, the king of England could walk right in here and start pushing you around.

          D’you want that? Huh? Do ya?

    • Mossy Feathers (She/They)
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      210 months ago

      It depends on whether you’re a collector or a Collector. Someone who collects them but takes them to gun shoots could easily go through tens or hundreds of thousands of rounds due to how fast some of those guns fire. Millions of rounds seems a bit high, but if he was regularly buying surplus ammo out of habit it seems like you could hit that much without meaning to.

      However, if he was a captial-C Collector, then yeah, millions of rounds is nuts.