GAO: U.S. Has Fired 250,000 Rounds For Every Insurgent Killed « JONATHAN TURLEY
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The General Accounting Office (GAO) reports that our forces are now using 1.8 billion rounds of small-arms ammunition a year — a level of use that has more than doubled in five years.
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Israel and Korea are building up their own supplies and our domestic market is really burning it up. A day of target shooting used to be 50 or a hundred rounds. Now, that is the warmup. I used to be able to use one or two 50ct boxes of .22 in a year. Now, you need a brick for a day, and the most wanted calibers seem to be the ones used by the military. Between hoarding and increased consumption, its' amazing that there is any available for sale.