Reply #76: OH MY GOODNESS BUY ALL THE GUNZ YOU CANS a Black man is going to take them away

[DainBramaged]

Record gun and ammunition sales 2008, 2009 and probably 2010 because of fear.

In a year of job losses, foreclosures and bag lunches, Americans have spent record-breaking amounts of money on guns and ammunition. The most obvious sign of their demand: empty ammunition shelves.

At points during the past year, bullets have been selling faster than factories could make them.

Gun owners have bought about 12 billion rounds of ammunition in the past year, industry officials estimate. That's up from 7 billion to 10 billion in a normal year.

It has happened, oddly, at a time when the two concerns that usually make people buy guns and bullets -- crime and increased gun control -- seem less threatening than usual.

The explanation for the run on bullets lies partly in economics: Once rounds were scarce, people hoarded them, which made them scarcer.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/02/AR2009110202712.html