I'm not sure what sort of situation you folks are envisioning short of open warfare breaking out (in which case we've all got bigger problems than how many bullets we have). I keep a quantity of powder, primers, bullets and my reloading tools around. I try to keep the fewest types of powder to load for all of the cartridges I use, and buy all of my supplies in bulk. I suppose if I needed it, I could come up with a pretty good pile of ammunition. Survival in just about any adverse situation is dependent on your ability to think through it. Being prepared certainly doesn't hurt, but you'd have to know what you're preparing for. Either way, the line of thinking evident in this thread has become popular enough to cause "shortages" in ammunition, and prices to go through the roof. I have a friend who keeps hundreds of thousands of rounds on hand "just in case". I consistently remind him that what he has would be nothing more than a serious liability if the situation in this country deteriorated badly enough to need ammo stockpiles. A small organized group of people would likely just kill him and take the ammunition and weapons that were useful to them. If you want to survive the obviously impending armageddon/zombie hordes/commie plot, or whatever it is that's going to happen, keep it simple. Gunfighting is not a good way to survive.
