AMMO SCARCE & BEING RATIONED BY DEALERS! CNJFO's VP & OTHERS QUOTED IN STAR LEDGER!
by Black Wire Media Fri. Aug. 21, 2020 www.cnjfo.com/join-us
Gun owners both new & old are experiencing the obvious self-inflicted "shortage" in the ammunition supply chain created by, in some cases, a TEN-FOLD increase in the amount of NJ Firearms Purchaser ID card applicants all vying for the normal output produced by ammo manufacturers. This ten fold increase was reported weeks ago by Anthony Colandro on Gun For Hire Radio, so it comes as no surprise that someone clued-in NJ's "newspaper of record", The Star Ledger.
Coalition of New Jersey Firearm Owners vice president David "Rosey" Rosenthal was quoted in today's story:
"David Rosenthal, vice president of the Coalition of New Jersey Firearm Owners, said 9mm caliber rounds, which are widely popular, are “scarce.” He said if a gun store does have them, it will limit the amount of rounds a customer can buy. There is 10 times more people looking for the same amount of inventory that manufacturers routinely put out,” Rosenthal said.
Several other New Jersey notables in the firearms community were quoted in todays story. They include Rick Friedman, owner of RTSP, Eric Rebels from County Line Firearms, Jack Faenza of Garden State Armory, and Tom Morris of Eagle Point Gun (an ammo distributor).
Of course The Ledger had to ask an ANTI from the "NJ Gun Violence Research Center" what they thought, and their answer (we're paraphrasing) was we're all suffering from ANXIETY (oh dear)! Maybe we all just want to exercise our 2A rights to defend ourselves & our families? Surely this concept can't be foreign to such a noble member of the main stream media?
We do have to give The Ledger its due as they did contact the New Jersey State Police Firearms Unit and wrote the following:
"As of August 12, the New Jersey State Police has received nearly 130,000 firearm applications, topping the number of applications the agency received in 2018 and 2019 combined, according to State Police data. The number of applications this year has increased by more than 137% since last year— with more than 4 months left in 2020, according to the agency."
For more details go to:
https://web.archive.org/web/20200821152409/https://www.nj.com/news/2020/08/the-country-is-literally-out-of-ammunition-gun-store-owners-scramble-to-meet-unprecedented-demand.html
EDITOR's NOTE:
Rosenthal wishes to thank our Communications Director Theresa Inacker, for initially handling the slew of questions the newspaper reporter asked about the NJ NICS portal, which was the original story prior to it morphing into its current, headline-grabbing, "The country is literally out of ammunition!" story to grab extra clicks.
With close to half a century behind the trigger, Rosenthal, who was trained to shoot by his father Harold, a WW2 vet that landed at Anzio, Italy during one of the dirtiest amphibious operations of the war, remembers when 9mm ammo was just 8 CENTS a round. This video, provided for your entertainment, shows our VP engaging some AR-500 steel from 27 yards with his 1911 .45 ACP, a caliber that can still be found on SOME gun store shelves.
