[Bloody Sam Roberts]

My conspiracy theory to explain all the Gubmint ammo purchases is that the Obama administration is trying to over burden the ammo manufacturers. That way, the Gubmint gets the ammo they want for stockpiling and can create another shortage such as the one that happened right after his election.

With little or no ammo on store shelves, We The People will be hard pressed to continue stockpiling and once inventories are depleted, he'll move to raise the tax on ammo to something like 500% so We The People cannot afford it when the shelves are restocked....and probably putting the ammo manufacturers out of business in the process.

It's a Win-Win-Win for him and his minions.

[MrB]

I’m with you on your theory...

When it was clear that 0bama was going to be elected (when McCain got the nomination), ammo supplies got real short for a while, but then they caught up, and you could actually find some pistol rounds at Walmart.

I’m thinking that the PTB are trying to make it scarce again, because people are steadily buying 2-3 where they would usually buy 1 and putting it back “just in case”.