With gun nuts hoarding bullets, will cops be disarmed?

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3. From what I know ...

... most metropolitan PD's only require their officers to train with firearms once a quarter -- and that 50 rounds is the most they are required to fire at that time -- that makes 200 rounds a year.

On the other hand -- I shoot every Sunday -- sometimes straight range, sometimes single-action competition, and sometimes hunting -- and it's not uncommon for me to shoot more than 50 rounds a week -- that makes at least 2,600 rounds a year or more than 10 times what a typical LEO is required to shoot (if I were to add up receipts it would probably be more).

So, it makes sense that civilians, like myself, buy in bulk. It's not hoarding, it's simple economics. Personally, I think that any LEO, who carries a firearm and is required to use it should train at least as often as I.

And it's not the NRA who is spreading the message of potential bans -- it's Mayor Bloomberg, Diane Feinstein and many of our own Democratic representatives.

I guarantee that if the President was speaking out against condoms and there were multiple bills in legislature seeking to ban or limit the purchase of condoms, you see them disappear off the shelves just like guns and gun-related accessories -- simple economics.