1.6 Billion Rounds Of Ammo For Homeland Security

All of the conspiracy folks who think that the ammo shortage has been caused by government purchases need to go look for .22 ammo on the shelf. Notice it's one of the rounds that's in the shortest supply?

.22 is made on separate lines, in mostly separate factories, with separate workforces, that can't be converted to centerfire ammunition. The machinery is completely different. The government isn't buying up all of the .22, nor are their orders causing the factories to not run .22 ammunition for civilian sales. In fact, all of the factories, domestic and imported, have ramped up .22 production. Yet it's still in short supply.

The "ammo shortage" is being caused for the same reasons there have been gun shortages, magazine shortages, bolt carrier group shortages, Acog and Aimpoint shortages, etc., etc., etc. Panic buying, because of pending legislation, and fears, real and imagined, of laws being implemented that would ban or highly restrict/tax purchases of those products.

As long as the administration and the DNC continues to flog gun/magazine/ammo control, people are going to buy and hoard, causing shortages.

And of course, this means that "X" percent of those items will find their way into the hands of those that shouldn't have them. But perhaps, like "Fast and Furious", that is the intent.