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On Fri, 02 Aug 2013 19:23:43 -0400, JustWaitAFrekinMinute
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DHS bought 1.6 billion rounds and are buying another chunk just
signed
for this week. It had the effect it was supposed to have..

The strange thing about that theory is that the high performance
rounds they were buying are the only ones that you can still find. The
cheap stuff is what sold out first and still is hard to find.

I do wonder why they need 5 rounds for every man woman and child in
the country. Are they really that bad at hitting something?

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The government purchases have had some effect but the major cause of
the ammo shortage was private citizen purchases and hoarding in
response to economic and political uncertainties. A concern that
stringent new gun laws would be successfully lobbied for and enacted
by the current administration and/or Congress drove both ammunition
and new gun sales through the roof in the past year. The DHS doesn't
buy supplies for reloading and muzzle loaders yet there is a serious
shortage of those also.

Ammo manufacturers can only increase capacity by so much because their
suppliers can't increase the needed materials by much.
One supplier says he doesn’t have a shortage of ammunition, but a
serious surplus of customers.

Point is, despite rumors to the contrary, there is no evidence of a
government conspiracy to buy up all the available ammunition.