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Wednesday, March 18, 2009

Wondering why you can't buy your ammo as usual? Blame Obama, As Usual.....

I like most other handgun owners and purchasers have been wondering why we can't take our frustrations out unloading a few hundred rounds a week at the local weapon ranges and I along with many others have either been stonewalled by government phone calls as have been many dealers around the country.

One reason I've heard is extensive paperwork on the import of ammo which I wrote about the other day, another understandable reason is the extraordinary run on weapons and ammo alike caused by the dictatorial Neo Marxist Obama government being installed thanks to 51 percent of this country having their empty heads up their American Idol loving asses last November.

Today Worldnet Daily has published an explanation for the unexplained and troublesome ammo shortage which they are laying the blame for square on the shouders of Der Fuhrer Obama and his underlings as many had anticipated being the reason in the first place.

Feds undercut ammo supply:

WND "Responding to two Democratic senators representing outraged private gun owners, the Department of Defense announced last night it has scrapped a new policy that would deplete the supply of ammunition by requiring destruction of fired military cartridge brass.

The policy already had taken a bite out of the nation's stressed ammunition supply, leaving arms dealers scrambling to find ammo for private gun owners.

Mark Cunningham, a legislative affairs representative with the Defense Logistics Agency, explained in an e-mail last night to the office of Sen. Jon Tester, D-Mont., that the Department of Defense had placed small arms cartridge cases on its list of sensitive munitions items as part of an overall effort to ensure national security is not jeopardized in the sale of any Defense property.

The small arms cases were identified as a senstive item and were held pending review of policy, he said.

'Upon review, the Defense Logistics Agency has determined the cartridge cases could be appropriately placed in a category of government property allowing for their release for sale,' Cunningham wrote.

The Defense Department liaison was responding to a letter yesterday to the Defense Logistic Agency's Vice Admiral Alan S. Thompson from Tester and fellow Montana Democrat Sen. Max Baucus. The senators argued 'prohibiting the sale of fired military brass would"

As WND reported, firearm sales have spiked since the election of a perceived anti-gun president, and Americans stockpiling bullets have produced a stressed ammunition market.

The Orlando Sentinel reports months of steady, heavy buying have left gun dealers in Florida facing shortages of ammunition.

"The survivalist in all of us comes out," John Ritz, manager of a Florida shooting range, told the Sentinel. "It's more about protecting what you have."

"People are just stockpiling," said a spokeswoman for Georgia Arms, which has seen bullet sales jump 100 percent since the election. "A gun is just like a car. If you can't get gas, you can't use it."

WND contacted the Defense Logistics Agency, the Department of Defense's largest combat support agency, several times seeking comment or explanation for the policy change but received none.

The National Rifle Association confirmed to WND that the DLA had been instructed to require the scrapping of the brass casings but declined further comment.

Other gun advocates, however, sounded off on the issue, eyeing the change in government policy with suspicion and filling the blogosphere with speculation that the effects of the policy change may be deliberate.

"It is an end-run around Congress. They don't need to try to ban guns – they don't need to fight a massive battle to attempt gun registration, or limit 'assault' weapon sales," writes firearm instructor and author Gordon Hutchinson on his The Shootist blog. "Nope. All they have to do is limit the amount of ammunition available to the civilian market, and when bullets dry up, guns will be useless."

A writer named Owen at the Boots & Sabers blog suspected the policy change was an effort by an anti-gun administration to raise the cost of ammunition.

"This policy didn't come out of the blue," wrote Owen. "The Commander in Chief is clearly sending a message to gun owners that they should be paying more for ammunition. If he can't do it through regulatory action, he'll do it by forcing ammunition manufacturers to spend more on production."

Hutchinson reports Georgia Arms was manufacturing over 1 million rounds of .223 ammunition every month, but without the ability to purchase expended military ammunition, the company might have been forced to lay off up to half its workforce.


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7 comments:

  1. The right to bear arms isn't infringed upon if you can't buy bullets.

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  2. Thats true yet I have enough for a small war on my block and that's all I care about at the moment. Obama's on the path to follow his hero Kennedy in more ways than one I'll tell you that....

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  3. liberals,not just omama.time to stop paying federal taxes through succession!they socialize us giving the feds the authority to micromanage its citizens!send our troops to wars and use our resources without asking us.we have the right to walk away!look at texas and oklahoma!
    am not ready to see the usa break up just yet,but it's time to make a clear message we are about done.

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  4. You had better save what you have folks!!!!

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  5. Been doin just that, we may indeed need it all and sooner than later at this pace Ali Baba Obama is disassembling our country

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  6. i just like 2 burn powder at paper targets like some people like 2 chase a little white ball around a golf course and what is wrong with that if we cant do that then the goverment should ban baseball football nascar and every thang good people do because bad people can 2

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  7. Anonymous I'm in a wheelchair most of the time and the only physical fun I can have anymore due to MS is my weekly trips over to the local gun range about three miles from my house. As a man who used to love golf, baseball football and hockey as a participant I cant do those things anymore and when they take away the guns they take all I've got left so they won't go easy....

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