High demand in ammunition causes shortfall for local police departments

[proud2BlibKansan]

PRAIRIE VILLAGE, Kan. - The recent spike in demand of assault rifle ammunition has caused a shortfall for local police departments.

Sgt. Byron Roberson of the Prairie Village Police Department said he's had a tough time restocking his department's ammunition.
"We've been calling different whole sale distributors that we use," Roberson said. "Come to find out, they're the same distributors that give to the big box stores."

OMB Guns in Olathe sells guns to both civilians and law enforcement agencies.

"Things have gone just absolutely crazy as far as gun sales, ammunition sales," explained Casey Flack, OMB sales manager. "The typical demand for a police department is now being impeded on by the amount of ammunition sales from the civilian market."


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[OneTenthofOnePercent]

1. LOL...

Maybe the cops should just try "talking gun weilding criminals down".
That seems to be DU's solution-of-the-day to gun wielding maniacs.

[Recursion]

2. It gets worse: the *military* ultimately uses the same supply chain

Privatization at its best.

[ProgressiveProfessor]

4. Not really

There are GOCO facilities. Also the Feds can get head of the line privileges

[Recursion]

5. Yes, and that's why they buy 2-3 years ahead

And there are even a few GOGO armouries left. I wasn't meaning to imply DoD is going to run out of ammo, just that it's a headache for them.

[ProgressiveProfessor]

6. The interesting problems are for the non military portions of the Executive Branch

Historically they buy on the open market on an annual basis and were moving to multi-year contract with options to lower costs. However, that lead to very numbers of rounds and some right wing woo.

[BeyondGeography]

3. Another scene from the not-so-divine comedy