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One of the Regulars
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Levallois said:Actually, with the instructions in front of you it was pretty easy to disassemble the Model 51. Without them, however, it would have been pretty ugly. Now I need to fire the darn thing and I find, unbeknownst to me, that .380 auto ammo is scarce?! Are they just not making it anymore?
John
I picked up a PPK/S in .380 Auto for my wife for Christmas 2008 and there was very little to be found on the store shelves in Colorado throughout the year. In fact, I had trouble tracking down some reloading dies for it! I think the large increase in CCW permits that took place as the 2008 election unfolded resulted in a lot more folks out there picking up .380 autos and the new demand was able to outstrip the rather small supply that was out there...then I think the factories began to concentrate on the more popular calendars during the shortage.
When I left Colorado at the beginning of December, the only handgun ammo that was regularly seen on the store shelves was .25 Auto, 40 S&W...and occasionally some 9mm. .22LR, .380 Auto, .357 Mag, 357 Sig, .44 Mag, .45 Auto...what came in was usually gone within the first couple hours...and not much was coming in. Powders and Primers were both still in poor supply.
Over here in Kabul, there's a slightly different problem. The Afghan National Army has an awful lot of ammo from decades ago (old Russian calibers) for which the weapons don't exist anymore...but try to tell them they need to dispose of the stuff and you get a mini-uprising! It is a great desecratation over here to not hold on to any and all ammo...even if there isn't a weapon in the country that could fire it!