Kim du Toit will be celebrating his birthday for an entire week this year, and thus Ammo Day has been extended. In case you are unfamiliar with Ammo Day, the idea is to get more rounds of ammo into private hands, and thus negate the effect of any sort of prohibitive tax.

It's a good theory, but as Kim notes, it can be a bitch to put into practice. Kim laments that Ammo Day was a failure, or at best, a partial success. I disagree. I think Ammo Day was highly successful, in that it raised awareness. Prior to Ammo Day, I kept very little ammo on hand. If I went shooting, I just bought some at the range. Now, I've got... well, let's just say that I need to buy a few more ammo cans, and leave it at that.

The spirit of ammo day was not lost on me, and I'm sure it touched a lot of other people too. Hopefully those supporters will enlighten a few friends for this year's event, and those friends will tell even more people next year.

Rome wasn't built in a day, and even the best ideas take time to catch on. Still, extending it to a week was a good idea, and should enhance the ammo buying fun.