So this is the cause of ammo shortages...

[tom kelly]

Ironic that most of the raw materials for the manufacture of ammunition are produced right here in the USA, However, there is no shortage of Heroin & Cocaine which are not native to the USA but probably kill more people than bullets! Also, that one more drink for the drunk driver is not in short supply either. Wonder how many fatalities are alchol related? Guess what anti-gun political family has a vested interest in the Scotch import business?...Regard's, tom kelly.

[incarcerated]

More stockpiling ammunition: Fear of potential Obama laws causing mass sales

By PERRY BACKUS Ravalli Republic
FLORENCE - Every day, Darren Newsom's three Bitterroot Valley Ammunition facilities crank out 300,000 rounds of ammunition.

It's not nearly enough.

“I'm going about 100,000 rounds in the wrong direction every day,” Newsom said. “We probably have about six months of back orders right now.”

Newsom has been in the ammunition manufacturing business for more than 20 years and he's never seen demand this high.

Fearful of the Obama administration's potential to tighten gun control laws, people from all over the country are stocking up on guns and ammunition.

“I went through the Clinton years and there was a bit of a scare then,” Newsom said. “This is like the Clinton years on steroids. ? On the day of the election, our phones started going nuts. It hasn't stopped since.”

As a master distributor for ATK - the world's largest ammunition business - Bitterroot Valley Ammunition supplies other ammunition manufacturers around the country with the components needed to make bullets.

“I get a million primers in every other day and most are shipped out the very next day,” he said. “I have 100 million primers on back order right now. We just can't get enough of them.”

At a recent gun show in Salt Lake City, Newsom sold somewhere between 300,000 and 400,000 rounds in the first two hours....

http://www.missoulian.com/articles/2...cal/news02.txt