Gun ammo is flying off of the gun store shelves!

[Tim4319]

When will the republicans finally figure out that the scare tactic of "Their going to take our guns" is not going to work? Now, there is a store about how ammunition at gun stores are hard to keep in stock, for fear that President Obama is going to increase the tax on ammo. This is so funny to me!

Keep it up GOP! Not only are you loosing your grip on your party, but you are loosing your grip on reality.

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Gun shops across the country are reporting a run on ammunition, a phenomenon apparently driven by fear that the Obama administration will increase taxes on bullets or enact new gun-control measures.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/05/04/ammo.shortage/

[YOY]

1. So when are we going to get to ask them...you realize you were being paranoid, don't you?

and that nobody is taking away your ammunition.

[shaniqua6392]

2. We all should have pitched in and bought a gun store or two.

We would have been rich....rich....rich!!!!! Damn.

[Ganja Ninja]

3. Wait about a year and then shop the pawn shops if you're looking for a good deal on a gun.

Gun prices are way up too. I have 2 guns that qualify as "assault weapons". Both were purchased in the last 5 or 6 years. One is a Saiga 20 ga shotgun. I bought it for around $230.00 out the door, tax, transfer fee and all. Today's price on gunbroker.com is anywhere between $750.00 and $850.00. The other is a CETME 308 win. Paid $375 out the door, todays price, $850.00 to $1,000.00. Most handgun prices are at least $100 more than they were this time last year too.

[havocmom]

4. Perhaps the industry has just found a way to survive a down economy?

Thinkin it's just one more marketing ploy aimed at the gullible.

[RamboLiberal]

5. I wish the news media would shut up about it

So perhaps it would die down. About every week for the last 2 months they report this story. Not that it isn't true.

As a shooter who likes to compete in some local competitions almost every weekend from April-October, I'm glad from just buying a couple of boxes every pay I had a bit of a stockpile. I've never seen ammo shelfs so bare. I'm getting real pissed at the idiot hoarders and IMHO every time the news media runs these stories they are encouraging more RW idiots who weren't even thinking of buying a gun or stockpiling ammo to now do so.

Kinda like the Y2K scare. IDIOTS!

[LiberalFighter]

10. The way you describe it suggests that the gun manufacturers (and bullets)

are paying the news media to put it out every few weeks so they can sell more.

[RamboLiberal]

14. No - I just think its one of the hot stories for the media

And when they keep running it the publicity just drives the frenzy. Next shortage Purell?

Flu Fears Spark Sanitizer Shortage

Swine flu fears have stores in Vermont running out of antibacterial hand sanitizers.

The Shelburne Supermarket ran out of Purell this week and as of Wednesday afternoon was down to one bottle of the more expensive, organic version. Most other grocery stores and pharmacies in the area are also out of hand sanitizers. Supermarket manager Marc Lewis said it is very unusual to see the Purell shelves empty.

"I don't think we've ever run out of Purell before," said Lewis. "I've been here eight years and it's the first time I've seen that happen."

The Supermarket expects to receive a shipment of sanitizers on Thursday.

Lewis says more customers have also started using free cart wipes to sanitize their shopping carts, and all cashiers have sanitizing wipes at their registers to stop the spread of germs through money.

http://www.wcax.com/Global/story.asp?S=10276356

Flu Fever Fuels Sanitizer Sales and Lots of Tweets

NEW YORK (AdAge.com) -- Chrysler went bankrupt, but you might not have noticed as the world fixated on swine flu. As news of the outbreak blanketed the globe, it spawned some instant marketing and media phenomena.

People weren't just looking to discuss the disease on the web. Searches spiked for "Purell Hand Sanitizer" and "face masks," Google said. And that spilled over into the real world.

A Clorox Co. spokeswoman said the company is ramping up bleach and Clorox Wipes production but isn't seeing shortages or planning ads to consumers, who already get the flu-fighting message. Some products have been diverted from Houston to Mexico City to international relief organizations. "This is a time for companies to do everything they can to help," she said, "not to market."

Roche's Tamiflu and GlaxoSmithKline's Relenza are the only two antiviral prescription drugs designated by the Food and Drug Administration to treat swine flu. A Walgreens spokesperson said the pharmacy saw an increase in Tamiflu prescriptions and placed additional orders for both drugs.

But not everyone is taking the most-effective precautions. One buyer said his stores have sold out of dust masks for painting or mowing lawns, which are no use against the flu, and TheraFlu, although not recommended to treat swine flu, "is flying off the shelves."

http://adage.com/globalnews/article?article_id=136426

[benld74]

6. EVERY RW radio show I listen to have the stars of the show speaking

about getting guns at so and so's, they are selling things out the door, so much fun shooting at targets at the place.

[Pharaoh]

7. Fear Sells! n/t

[depakid]

11. Yes, it does.

Which makes it little wonder that Americans became a nation of torturers, with the world's largest prison system- and accepting repeated mass shooters and senseless homicides to the point where the more mundane "events" hardly mke the news.

[Enrique]

17. yep

I'm hearing commercials on RW radio for emergency radios and for seeds, which the ad touts as "the ultimate barter item" for when the worst happens and our society is reduced to Omega Man conditions.

[bertman]

8. Beat 'um the Merkun way. Buy stock in H&K, Smith & Wesson, Colt, etc.

[LiberalFighter]

9. This story has been going on for a couple of months now.

Don't they have anything else to report about?

[benEzra]

12. The corporate media *really* wants new gun restrictions

and are pissed that the Obama administration is not pushing new bans.

Whether that's because they simply hate the idea of the "little people" owning guns, or whether they want Dems to fall on the gun-ban sword again a la 1994, is anyone's guess. But the MSM has been beating the drum on the gun issue since even before the election.

[benEzra]

13. Ummm, the present tight ammunition market dates from *2005*

when post-Katrina hedging (due to the illegal confiscations and the unauthorized declaration of "martial law" in the region) met Iraq war demand.

The MSM drumbeat for "ammunition microstamping" (read: huge supply constriction) in 2007 and 2008, and Feinstein and the MSM calling for new bans on the most popular guns, added fuel to that fire, but supply has been constricted for a while. It was mostly seen as price increases until recently, though.

Thankfully, my wife and I bought a sizeable amount back before 2005, when it was much less expensive.

BTW, half of gun owners are Dems and indies, not repubs, and we use ammunition, too.

[RamboLiberal]

15. Yeah but its only been the last 2 months

At least in my neck of the woods. Before that stock might've been a little low but I could always find ammo I wanted to buy at Cabelas, Gander Mountain or Sportsman Warehouse(before the last went out of business where I live).

[benEzra]

16. True. It was mainly manifested as price increases until recently.

I'm now wishing I had bought several cases of $100/case 7.62x39mm back in the early 2000's...