US ammunition shortages

[karlos]

Troops training for and fighting the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are firing more than 1 billion bullets a year, contributing to ammunition shortages hitting police departments nationwide and preventing some officers from training with the weapons they carry on patrol.

An Associated Press review of dozens of police and sheriff's departments found that many are struggling with delays of as long as a year for both handgun and rifle ammunition. And the shortages are resulting in prices as much as double what departments were paying just a year ago.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/17/AR2007 081701310.html

[eogz]

Oh dear, are they going to have to ask questions first and then shoot later?

[conspiracy analyst]