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Ammunition Shortage Very Confusing (Vanity)
Vanity | 4/6/2013 | benasawin

Posted on 04/06/2013 6:38:47 AM PDT by benasawin

The sudden shortage of ammo available just isn’t making sense. Yes, DHS has made substantial purchases (~1.6b rounds) but when one looks at the numbers, this alone cannot account for such dramatic shortages of supply.

Just estimating, for purpose of an example, 1.6b rounds is a huge purchase but how does this break out?

1.6b divided by 50 rounds/box equals 32m boxes. There are 50 states and for purposes of simplifying this example, say there are 50 cities in each state and 5 stores (outlets) per city. This computes to 125,000 total outlets in the US.

If one divides 32m boxes by 125,000 outlets, this equals 256 boxes (drain) on each outlet. There are certainly more than 50 cities in each state and highly likely that there are more than 5 outlets within each city.

My point, how could this action by DHS be the sole driver behind the shortages we are facing? There has to be more to this issue.


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To: Tupelo

Ding ,Ding,Ding We have a winner. There is no shortage of ammo whatsoever, Go on gunbroker.com and you can buy thousands and thousands of rounds of any ammo you want. You will have to pay massively inflated prices due to sellers trying to cash in on percieved shortage.


61 posted on 04/06/2013 10:53:32 AM PDT by cdpap
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To: cweese

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62 posted on 04/06/2013 1:46:50 PM PDT by Graewoulf (Traitor John Roberts' Commune-Style Obama'care' violates U.S. Constitution AND Anti-Trust Law.)
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To: varon

Enemies both foreign and domestic, love people who think like you.

Maybe you could stock up on a twenty five year supply of surrender flags.


63 posted on 04/06/2013 3:03:06 PM PDT by PoloSec ( Believe the Gospel: how that Christ died for our sins, was buried and rose again)
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To: mnehring

yup, and if you have one person or a whole house that shoots, it makes a difference. if you see prices going up you stock up beforeand cause you dont know when they’ll come down.

bullets become trading items, money, in certain conditions.


64 posted on 04/06/2013 5:41:39 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (I can neither confirm or deny that; even if I could, I couldn't - it's classified.)
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