Ammo Scarcity Continues

 Find what you can and pay what you have to if you need it now.

The demand for ammunition is high especially in light of the recent terror attacks and also the seeming determination of the government to strangle supply by creating large order bottlenecks.

Examples abound here.

Wally World Ammunition Shelves are empty on the East Coast.  Unless you plan to pick up shotgun rounds just forget it for now.  I haven't seen any pistol ammo in well over a month there.

Pompano beach Florida is seeing a run on ammo.

Clovis Calif. sees shortages so many are searching at gun shows. 

Is the DHS purchase part of a design to limit availability?

So now the military is under pressure to find ammunition.  It turns out that despite some dedicated manufacturers like Lake City that a lot of ammo the military uses for training comes from the same sources as the U.S. military.  Critical ammo shortages causing problems for the U.S. military.

Meanwhile there are reports that the military is back in the habit of destroying brass rather than reselling it.

Is this supply and demand or something more? 

9mm shortage is a backdoor attempt at gun control by another name.   You would think a normal Federal agency would consider the effect they might have on the public when they make outsized purchases of ammo.  The continued increase in orders by DHS and other agencies only confirms that some planning or consideration might have limited the dislocations currently in the ammunition market, but the Administration seems to have no concern whatsoever about this.  Meanwhile the media never even asks the question "Why does DHS find it necessary to make such long term orders and don't give us that story about saving money. "  That is the last concern of any Government agency.