L.A. Times Says “Bull Market for Bullets”

File this one under “old new” but this weekend The Los Angeles Times ran a piece that say sales of ammunition have picked up since President Barrack Obama took office. This has been a story that has regularly circulated over the past seven months, and shows no sign of dying down.

Was it a slow news week? That doesn’t seem right. Teddy Kennedy passed away, hurricanes were heading to land in both the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, and the violence in Afghanistan has picked up. So why is this story that ammo is continuing to sell news?

Of course part of the problem is that these stories circulate, people are reminded that bullets are in short supply and thus they buy more when they can find it. This in turn increases sales, and spurs more stories. So maybe the real story isn’t that people are buying bullets out of fear of President Obama banning guns, but rather that the media is essentially convincing people to buy more bullets!