Posted on 03/21/2013 8:37:52 AM PDT by JoeProBono
The common citizen is not the only one having trouble getting ammunition.
Law enforcement agencies have seen their ammunition purchases put on back order because of a nationwide run on ammunition.
That includes Wyoming County, where the Sheriff’s Department’s order made in 2012 has yet to arrive and there is no estimate for delivery. Orleans County has the same problem.
“It’s been this way before, because of the wars but I think this is worse,” said Investigator Corey Black, who supervises firearms training for the department. “We plan for things like this so we run a little surplus each year.”
He said the department ordered 15,000 to 20,000 rounds for 2013, including .45-caliber, .223-caliber and 12-gauge shotgun shells.
All are on back order, Black said. The jail, he said, orders another 10,000 rounds each year.
Black said as long as the ammunition eventually arrives, the shortage should not affect training requirements.
Genesee County Sheriff’s Chief Deputy Gordon Dibble said the department “just got our shipment.”
Ammunition shortages are not new. At various times during the war in Iraq ammunition supplies ran low for certain calibers. The same happened after President Obama was elected, with gun owners fearing new laws that would limit or take away altogether the right to bear arms.
The same is happening now, with New York’s SAFE Act greatly restricting gun ownership and ammunition purchases and federal laws in the works that do the same.
“It’s a combination of things,” said Mike Barrett, owner of Barrett’s Batavia Marine on West Main Street. “The government is stockpiling ammunition. People’s knee-jerk reactions and being afraid of the gun laws.”
Barrett said Winchester representatives said it could be at least another year before supplies return to normal.
“A lot of it is driven by the gun laws,” he said. “We’ve seen this before but this is the worst I’ve seen since I started here in 1972. We have to beg for stuff.”
I wouldn't go hunting with any of them.
LMAO! That’s the one!
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