Originally published at Notes From The Bunker. You can comment here or there.

I think that I will refer to 2013 as “The Year Of The Weasel”. I’m not expecting anything good out of it, and thus far there’s plenty to be angry about…and thats with the year just being a day old.

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While traipsing around the internet I came across this company selling pre-cast storm shelters. What made it noteworthy, to me, was the demo video of them dropping/swinging farm equipment and cars into it from nearby cranes to test the resistance to impact. Very. Cool. If I lived in a place where tornadoes were likely, I’d probably have something like this dropped in my backyard. Ugly, bulky and heavy but it beats being impaled by a 2×4 in 100 mph winds. The video is cool to watch but the guy narrating it has a bit of a charisma problem. He’s an engineer so I suspect being the life of the party was never a strong suit…but I bet he can roll the hell out of a D20.

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The current buying frenzy extends into Amazon. While Amazon doesn’t sell much in the way of AR mags, they do sell other goodies…shotgun magazine extensions, Magpul parts, etc, etc. I had a couple Rem 870 mag extensions on my wish list and when I went to look the other day – surprise! – all out-of-stock. Shoulda expected that. Even things that are unlikely to be banned are flying off Amazon. I suppose it makes sense that if you suddenly picked up a dozen stripped lowers somewhere youre probably going to need a dozen Magpul pistol grips, MOE stocks, lower parts kits, etc, etc….hence the unavailability of things that are highly unlikely to be banned.

I went ahead and bit the bullet and picked up a little something for myself. Not because I think they’re going to ban something as harmless as a flashlight-forend, but because once the supply is gone it might be six or twelve months until I see another one. I’ve been meaning to tweak out one of my 870′s a bit so I might as well get started.

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Year Of The Weasel, man……..