“Gun stores around the country have had difficulty keeping up with demand for ammunition in recent months. Fears of government tightening of gun and ammunition controls have meant that retailers, from Wal-Mart to mom-and-pop gun shops, haven’t been able to keep bullets on the shelves. Shopper Robert Nicholson, like thousands of other shooters, is going a different route. He’s making more of the bullets he shoots. Shop owner Cliff Poser says the scarcity of ready-made bullets has frustrated shooters to the point they’re spending between $200 and $1,000 to get into the hobby known as ‘reloading.'”
http://www.wbur.org/npr/199057377/with-bullets-scarce-more-shooters-make-their-own
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