Will these help?
Glad I can reload everything I shoot. Especially since I have a lot of various kinds of bullets stockpiled.
First, most police departments do not practice enough with their most important tool.
Second, military ammunition is in short supply, but for someone to say they wait months is laughable and indicative of incompetence in that agency.
Lastly, reloading is a viable alternative. Departments can hire private individuals to reload ammunition for them at a greatly reduced cost. Of course, that flies in the face of most liberal police departments.
I think there are multiple factors for the ammo price hike and shortages. The UN is screwing the surplus ammo market, and the metal prices are affecting all sectors of the market. I doubt if the increased military demand is actually causing shortages of .38 Special, except in cases where factories are switching production to military calibers.
The ammo price hikes that affect me personally are the shortages of cheap 8mm Mauser and 9mm Luger. A few years ago, the cheapest 8mm was .05/rd. Those days are gone forever, and bulk 9mm surplus is a thing of the past.
Bush’s fault.
The police don’t need ammo.
We should withdraw them off the streets and into the police stations.
After all, we have a quagmire out there, we are losing 150 police officers a year on the streets of America and we are not seeing any improvement, we have lost the war on crime, so it is time to bring the police home, we cannot allow any more deaths to occur.
Perhaps the government should cut off the funding for their police vehicles..
Hell, I can pump out 500rds of handgun ammo an hour and about half that in 12GA ammo. I don't have a problem getting it.
Will these help?
They need to have a gun "buy-back" if they want to get those guns off the street.
/sarc
.40 cal is not a military caliber. They can't blame the war.
Other than kicking down doors and murdering 90 year old women in cold blood, why do the police need .223? The AR-15 and it's variants can easily be fitted with an adapter that will allow target qualification using .22LR ammo. I qualified using this ammo twice when I was active duty.
War and the welfare state are inflationary. The Republicans are expanding both.
Metal shortages causing prices to go up, sure. Maybe metal shortage translating into shortages of ammo, maybe.
But the article ADMITS that the military gets most of its rounds from a specific manufacturer. How could that affect other, commerical manufacturers? They're not all getting their raw materials from the same sources. And if they are, then they need to be looking for other sources.
I'm wondering about the billion round number. That's a thousand million. Strikes me as awfully high, but I don't know what training requirements are. What about military stockpiles - or have we burned through them already?
Just another anti war hit piece. There is no shortage of ammo anywhere except in this ignorant article. Just like the article about the sneakers for guns program in Orlando. They say someone turned in a “semi automatic machine gun”. As rare as those are I’d love to see one. They are all idiots.
And Women, Minorities and children affected the most.
I call BS. 911 was almost 6 years ago. The Afghan and Iraq wars are about 4 years old.
It took less time than this to build up hardware of all types during WW2.
BS.. I just ordered 500 rounds of .223... Russian .223.
.40 S&W... not many troops using that...
Horsehockey! Ammo is plentiful.
This whole article is a load of crap. 5.56, 7.62 x 39, 45, 9mm are all readily available and after prices spiking about 6 mos. ago more affordable. I just picked up 100 rds. of Remington .38 spl +p for $25 at Wallyworld and .38 spl IS NOT a preferred military or police round. 9mm and .45 which are, are cheaper!
Yeah, I would prefer ammunition be available to deployed forces, private citizens, and then police.