{"id":84817,"date":"2013-10-20T22:25:03","date_gmt":"2013-10-20T21:25:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/is-the-obama-administration-the-cause-of-gun-ammunition-shortages\/84817\/"},"modified":"2013-10-20T22:39:12","modified_gmt":"2013-10-20T21:39:12","slug":"is-the-obama-administration-the-cause-of-gun-ammunition-shortages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/latest-news\/is-the-obama-administration-the-cause-of-gun-ammunition-shortages\/","title":{"rendered":"Is The Obama Administration The Cause Of Gun Ammunition Shortages?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- START CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p><strong>Frank Miniter<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/frankminiter\/2013\/10\/20\/is-the-obama-administration-the-cause-of-gun-ammunition-shortages\/\" target=\"_blank\">Forbes<\/a><br \/>\nOctober 20, 2013<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Obama best thing to ever happen to gun sales \/ by Cory M. Grenier, via Flickr<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The reason for the ammunition shortage should be obvious. After all, with gun sales continuing to break records all those people buying semiautomatic rifles and handguns need a lot of ammunition. Anyone who has used a semiautomatic rifle or handgun to shoot self-resetting steel targets knows that ammo always seems to be in short supply.<\/p>\n<p>Nevertheless, finding bare shelves that have always been stacked with boxes of ammo has made some wonder if the government has been up to something.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s easy to understand this worry. As gun sales break records\u2013partly because of fear of coming gun control from the Obama administration\u2013supplies of ammo ran so low that gun stores and ranges have to ration ammunition. Meanwhile, rumors of mass purchases of ammunition made by government entities began to fly around the Internet. Making all this even worse is that fact that it hasn&#8217;t been a short-term supply problem. Now well over a year since the shortages of popular types of ammo began there are still empty shelves and rationing here and there around the United States.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/frankminiter\/2013\/10\/20\/is-the-obama-administration-the-cause-of-gun-ammunition-shortages\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Frank Miniter Forbes October 20, 2013 Obama best thing to ever happen to gun sales \/ by Cory M. Grenier, via Flickr The reason for the ammunition shortage should be obvious. After all, with gun sales continuing to break records all those people buying semiautomatic rifles and handguns need a lot of ammunition. Anyone who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1213,"featured_media":84818,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487,18],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-84817","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"category-latest-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1213"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84817\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}