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To: Slagle who wrote (21063)8/15/2007 4:43:22 PM
From: Snowshoe  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 218256
 
Slagle, bad news... your monthly ammo bill is going up! ;)

Price of ammo to shoot up
06:18 AM CDT on Thursday, August 9, 2007
By JAMES HOHMANN / The Dallas Morning News

The baby needs milk. The car needs gas. The gun needs bullets.

Rising dairy and oil prices grab the attention of shoppers and motorists. But the increasing price of ammunition – a consumer product the government considers when calculating the rate of inflation – has largely gone unnoticed.

The price increases began after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, then were compounded by a double whammy: the war in Iraq, which pushed up overall demand, and growing industrial powers such as China, which bid up the cost of needed raw materials.

more: dallasnews.com