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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/co ... 12_pf.html

Bullets are speeding faster out of gun shops in U.S.
A SHORTAGE OF AMMUNITION
Demand is up despite drop in crime rate

By David A. Fahrenthold and Fredrick Kunkle
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, November 3, 2009



In a year of job losses, foreclosures and bag lunches, Americans have spent record-breaking amounts of money on guns and ammunition. The most obvious sign of their demand: empty ammunition shelves.

At points during the past year, bullets have been selling faster than factories could make them.

Gun owners have bought about 12 billion rounds of ammunition in the past year, industry officials estimate. That's up from 7 billion to 10 billion in a normal year.

It has happened, oddly, at a time when the two concerns that usually make people buy guns and bullets -- crime and increased gun control -- seem less threatening than usual.

The explanation for the run on bullets lies partly in economics: Once rounds were scarce, people hoarded them, which made them scarcer.

But the rush for bullets, like this year's increase in gun sales, also says something about how suspicious the two sides in the gun-control debate are of each other, even at a time when the issue is on Washington's back burner....

Interesting. Firearm and ammunition sales to law abiding citizens skyrocket and crime goes down. Hmmm! I wonder if there's a connection there.

C-dub wrote:Interesting. Firearm and ammunition sales to law abiding citizens skyrocket and crime goes down. Hmmm! I wonder if there's a connection there.

No kidding. I wonder if politicians and the media will be able to connect the dots and see the relationship there.

joe817 wrote:

C-dub wrote:Interesting. Firearm and ammunition sales to law abiding citizens skyrocket and crime goes down. Hmmm! I wonder if there's a connection there.

No kidding. I wonder if politicians and the media will be able to connect the dots and see the relationship there.

No, they'll probably say "Look at those crazies! Crime's going down and they keep buying more ammo...they're paranoid!"

Where have these clowns been; they just now figure out ammo has been hard to get?

But - they are the Washington Post

C-dub wrote:Interesting. Firearm and ammunition sales to law abiding citizens skyrocket and crime goes down. Hmmm! I wonder if there's a connection there.

I didn't pick up that these were law-abiding citizens. How do they monitor that?

Zee wrote:

C-dub wrote:Interesting. Firearm and ammunition sales to law abiding citizens skyrocket and crime goes down. Hmmm! I wonder if there's a connection there.

I didn't pick up that these were law-abiding citizens. How do they monitor that?

My own assumption for the ammo, but either way. However, you gotta think that more law abiding folks are buying guns and ammo than BGs. Right? There's just more of us.

> I didn't pick up that these were law-abiding citizens. How do they monitor that?

because we're easier to monitor than the criminals. That's why registration, forcing private sales through FFLs and other such nonsense has nothing to do with reducing crime. We live in a society that lives for instant solutions, short term gain, perception is reality, etc...

The 'less stoopid' of the criminal element doesn't go to Walmart and stand under the security cameras while buying ammo; they buy it on the street or steal it (eg. police vehicles broken into, guns & ammo stolen).


>> Interesting. Firearm and ammunition sales to law abiding citizens skyrocket and crime goes down. Hmmm!
>> I wonder if there's a connection there.

>No kidding. I wonder if politicians and the media will be able to connect the dots and see the relationship there.

They won't because it doesn't fit their agenda or perceptions. For a politician its often more important to give the illusion of doing something rather than actually doing something. "Look, I'm cracking down on the gun show loophole", they will say. The fact that the real criminals buy their guns in a back alley downtown isn't relevant; that never makes the pre-approved sound bites...er...I mean 'news'.

C-dud hit it right on !!!
As an example: When New Yorks PD...goes out on strike.... Crime goes down !
'Cause the BG knows the average citizen will shoot him !!!
Mac .45 >>>>>>> ##%%%##
MORE AMMO SARGEANT !!!!