I Don’t Feel the Least Bit Safer – Quite the Opposite

Sun 11/08/09 at 12:57 pm

A run on bullets | StarTribune.com 
By DAVID A. FAHRENTHOLD and FREDRICK KUNKLE , Washington Post

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 recent years.

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.

A run on bullets | StarTribune.com

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