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PostPosted: Mon Aug 20, 2007 1:11 am    Post subject: US ammunition shortages Reply with quote

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

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PostPosted: Mon Aug 20, 2007 10:36 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Oh dear, are they going to have to ask questions first and then shoot later?
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PostPosted: Mon Aug 20, 2007 10:40 am    Post subject: Re: US ammunition shortages Reply with quote

stelios wrote:
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



This is probably the latest excuse they have come up with due to the increased crime wave in western cities where children are killing themselves on the streets as if in war zones.

If a gun is fired the police never turn up until 1 or 2 hours later. Now they have an excuse.

Our bullets have run out sir we cant turn up!
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