As the Director of Crime Prevention for the last four years of my first stint as an LEO, I tried to visualize scenarios of criminals taking advantage of the good citizens, and even of their fellow vermin. My constituents, the women in particular, often remarked, "Oh Duke, how do you think of those things?" I tried to explain you cannot reduce your vulnerability is you cannot anticipate the actions of your adversary.
I regards to the exercise of our 2nd Amendment Rights, I severely mistrust the motives of human beings with any agenda other that good old greed and profit as motivators. Sadly, people with a political agenda are smart and devious as they are committed. They take advantage of any vulnerability. I view the demise of Remington at the hands of Cerebrus as just such a situation. Furthermore, I must ask myself if the current aggregation of our ammunition supply into fewer but larger hands is not applauded by the foes of a free armed citizenry. I'll bet the "Corn Pop Cadre" enjoys seeing a mega conglomerate holding most of the ammo and reloading supplies under one management and being able to remind that management that they are beholding to government orders and contracts for billions of their dollars.
Then I look at the proliferation of powders I have never heard of, did not need, or want. I feel that diversity of blends and models of these powders reduces the manufacturer's ability to concentrate on pure production. It would have to make sense in today's market to run off maximum lots of a few tried and true powders rather than running around with their hair on fire making a zillion boutique new numbers to satisfy the new age bean counters up in advertising.
