Unbelievable photo of gunman in Dallas courthouse shooting

[Batman]

In fairness, he was carrying those rounds when he opened fire on a federal building. They weren't sitting in storage on the top shelf of his workbench in his garage or on a counter at a firing range.

It was more of a generalized rant, not about this specific case.

 

[Neutral Corner]

Glad they got the guy before he did any damage.

That said, slight pet peeve.
I don't think people realize how many rounds of ammunition you have to buy at once. A lot of ammo comes 50 rounds to a box, so 180 rounds is only three or four boxes. You can easily expend that much during a day at the range. We have a .38 I haven't shot in several years but there's still 275 rounds in the house -- six boxes total, all of which could fit in a shoebox with room to spare. I bought a couple of boxes here and there over the span of a few months (total cost was probably about $100) when we did shoot it a few times.
It adds up quickly, especially if you have several guns and calibers to keep in stock. If you have a rifle and buy bulk quantities, even moreso. You can buy 1,400 rounds of .22 ammo for less than $100, so why not buy it that way if you go to the range often?
So whenever there's a story about someone being arrested for a relatively minor charge and it mentions they had "hundreds of rounds of ammunition," thus making it sound like they had an arsenal, and it turns out they had the equivalent of about five boxes in the house, it makes me cringe a little bit. I have "hundreds of rounds of ammunition," but it's far from an arsenal. It's like saying you have dozens of cans of Coke in your refrigerator because there are three 12-packs in there -- it's factually correct, but kind of misleading to make it sound like there's a lot more.

Rant over. Carry on.

There is a big difference between a guy who has a couple of bricks of .22 LR and a guy carrying an AR with five 30-round mags of .223 and another 30 in the rifle.