Gun Policy News
To Meet 'Skyrocketing' Demand, US Will Sell 9.5 Billion Bullets This Year
30 August 2009
Los Angeles Times
There's a bull market for bullets.
Stacks of ammo, once piled high at gun shops across America, have dwindled. Prices paid by consumers for much-sought-after Winchester .380-caliber handgun bullets have doubled. At weekend gun shows, trailers loaded with boxes of ammunition are drained within hours.
Budget-pressed police departments, which can't be caught short, have increased their orders just to be safe, and the U.S. military, fighting two wars, has seen its need... (GunPolicy.org)