For some time, wingnuts have been pushing the notion that the government is stockpiling ammunition to keep individual gun owners from having them. Sadly, though, high-ranking Republican lawmakers actually buy this claptrap.
Earlier this week, Senator Jim Inhofe and Congressman Frank Lucas introduced legislation that would ban non-military agencies from buying more ammo than they bought during the Bush 43 administration.
The lawmakers say the Obama administration is buying up exceedingly high levels of ammunition in an attempt to limit the number of bullets the American public have access to on the open marketplace.
"President Obama has been adamant about curbing law-abiding Americans’ access and opportunities to exercise their Second Amendment rights," said Inhofe.
"One way the Obama Administration is able to do this is by limiting what’s available in the market with federal agencies purchasing unnecessary stockpiles of ammunition.”
And yesterday, Congressman Jim Jordan went on American Family Radio with Tony Perkins to claim that the Department of Homeland Security
was hoarding ammo even as Americans were buying a record number of bullets for themselves.
How loony is this? The NRA told its members that it sees nothing unusual about the rate of ammo purchases, and that there's no need to "invent additional threats to our rights." The NRA, people. The same outfit that never met a conspiracy theory about guns that it didn't like.