Kuldebar
08-17-2007, 05:08 PM
Not just the economy feeling the pinch: Ammunition Shortage (phonetics ftw)
Another sign that the ship of state is running aground and taking us with it?
Ammunition Shortage Squeezes Police (http://apnews.myway.com/article/20070817/D8R2UKLG0.html)
Excerpt:
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.
"There were warehouses full of it. Now, that isn't the case," said Al Aden, police chief in Pierre, S.D.
I guess this means the cops will have to be tasering more old ladies and unarmed fathers.
Another sign that the ship of state is running aground and taking us with it?
Ammunition Shortage Squeezes Police (http://apnews.myway.com/article/20070817/D8R2UKLG0.html)
Excerpt:
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.
"There were warehouses full of it. Now, that isn't the case," said Al Aden, police chief in Pierre, S.D.
I guess this means the cops will have to be tasering more old ladies and unarmed fathers.