Not really new, just have better things to do than worry about government conspiracy theories regarding ammo shortages that were caused by panicked idiots in the general populace.03Lightningrocks wrote:Well thanks for clearing that up. You will have to forgive me but seeing as how you are new around here, can I inquire as to who you got your insight from?WinoVeritas wrote:Zero percentage.03Lightningrocks wrote:Is it really that bad? Wow! I am fortunate enough to have plenty of ammo so I have not tried finding any in the past year. Seriously? There are reports of 100 people waiting in line?? That is CRAZY!!
I wonder how much of this shortage is brought on by the federal government buying up supplies?
According to this thread they are responsible for 1.6 billion rounds with just one department. Lord knows how many rounds are being sucked up by other departments.
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Then we have the military contracts having to be fullfilled. Every police department in the country is finding themselves high and dry and are responding by ordering more ammo. I am not so sure we can say the government has zero participation.
I have a feeling regardless of what source I were to post you would just call it crap. Yes there is an ammo shortage, but it isn't because of any government RFQ or order - regardless of what Alex Jones poops out on his media. I expect the current shortage to be pretty much over by mid to late summer. The last shortages in 2008 lasted about a year - I expect this to be less.
But wait, here is a link you can trash cause it doesn't jive with your thoughts -
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I expect the same reasoning will apply to the 1.6 billion rounds.
Have a super fine day.