Analyst's note:  Absolutely must read.  Whatever the truth, apparently we are, at a minimum, over two years away from solving this crisis in ammo.  Bottom-line .... better stock up as you can if you want ammo for your weapons. 

Right or wrong, the concern is that OUR Federal Gov't is Preparing for U.S. Economic COLLAPSE & follow-on violence and Obama DHS Purchases 2,700 Light-Armored Tanks to Go With Their 1.6 Billion Bullet Stockpile.  There is also real concern that Obama is a Muslim Brotherhood Plant

We read that Obama To Hit The Trail On A Mission To Revive Gun Control Fight

Barack Obama is ready to hit the road on a new campaign-style public relations trip, hoping to breathe new life into the push for stronger gun control laws.

With Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid planning to bring a scaled back package of gun legislation to the Senate floor early next month, the White House is hoping they can rebuild some of the momentum that has been lost in the months since the Newtown shootings.

A White House official would not comment on the timing of more presidential travel, but said people should expect to see Obama travel outside DC to bolster his insistence that gun control measures “deserve a vote” in Congress. [....]

We have long noted and asked the question about DHS Purchases Yet More Ammo....Why??  The American citizen does NOT trust this administration in particular and is reacting to these feelings.

The surging nationwide demand for popular rounds of ammunition has virtually eliminated the ability to purchase them in any quantity, thereby affecting firearms training and recreational shooting across the country, as well as the supply of ammunition to the U.S. military which relies on commercial manufacturers.

“The small-arms ammunition situation in this country is currently very bad,” said John Farnam, who runs Defense Training International.

“The military relies on the retail level for their supply of ammunition and even the military has a problem getting it,” Farnam said. There are indications that the U.S. military is looking abroad for the components that make up a round.

[....] Bullets, brass cartridges, smokeless powder and the primers – elements which comprise the full round – are also hard to find.

[....] the most complex of these components – the primer – similarly is produced by commercial enterprises and their production

[....] The chronic shortage of components for reloads also is indicative of the limited supply available to commercial producers of bulk ammunition.

He attributes the nationwide run on ammunition to demand stemming from the concerns over limits being sought by gun-control advocates and singles out the Obama administration in particular for pushing this agenda against law-abiding gun owners.

“I have been in the firearms/ammunition distribution business since I left my agency in 1988,” one supplier said, “and I have never seen Americans this desperate to buy anything and everything associated with weapons and effective fighting.

The supplier said that gun, accessory and ammunition manufacturers are ramping up to meet the unprecedented demand but are proceeding cautiously due to the unpredictability of the outcome of current pending legislation and subsequent court decisions.

[....] rough calculations suggest that despite the training, the DHS would have something like a 24-year supply of ammunition on hand. These purchases are in addition to other law-enforcement equipment for tactical police teams.

In recent days, DHS officials, including Secretary Janet Napolitano, have refused to tell inquiring congressmen why the department needs so much ammunition and tactical equipment, given sequestration in which all U.S. government agencies are to cut back spending.

Because of DHS’ run on ammunition, sources say that it is leaving local law-enforcement agencies “high and dry” in their ability to obtain it for their own use and training.

In some locations, sheriff’s departments are issuing fewer rounds when practicing at the range.

[....] “If this frenzy ended tomorrow morning,” he said, “it would still be at least two years before our inventory would have any chance of returning to ‘normal.’”

[....] “Americans, police and non-police alike, are expressing their universal unease by becoming armed, in any way they can,” he said. “We are also openly frustrated with an administration that accuses honest gun-owners who have never committed any kind of crime, with or without a gun, of representing some kind of societal problem, while simultaneously doing nothing about real crimes, except soliciting their votes!”

For personal protection, Farnam has pointed to the need for private citizens to be armed, referring to historical precedent of Germany and Italy in which the citizenry was disarmed, as seen in Great Britain today where it is almost impossible to buy a firearm.

Farnam said it’s best to prepare “as best we can but when you don’t have it, you don’t have it.”

Farnam likes to find memorable comments to make his point, and quoting the Afghan poet Abdul Rahman Pazhwak, Farnam said, “When fools and folly rule the world, the end of man may come as a rude shock, but it can hardly come as a surprise.”