Instapundit links to this interesting blog post, and quotes:

“According to two spokesmen for the world’s largest ammunition manufacturer, which runs the military’s ammunition manufacturing plant and separately, is a major supplier of law enforcement ammunition, it is a massive and unexpected increase in law enforcement ammunition demand that is causing delays in law enforcement ammunition delays, not the war.”

Any criminologists or law enforcement officials out there have ideas on why this might be? Violent crime has risen the last two years, but only negligibly, and only after an historic, 15-year drop to 50-year lows.

Could this just be an effect of the overall trend toward militarization — bigger guns, more guns, guns that fire more rounds?

MORE: See the link above for more updates. Also, Say Uncle emails to say much of this may be due to all of the Homeland Security grants going out to local PDs. There’s probably something to that, too.

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