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To: Cautious_Optimist who wrote (211765)	12/16/2012 11:39:43 AM
From: Wharf Rat	Respond to of 541099

"The only surprise is that anyone thought this wouldn't happen with the current colossal supply," It's hard to get a good number for our bullet supply. If we have 280M guns, I figure at least 100 rounds/gun, so, 28M bullets. Half the number the planet made for WW2. The Great Arsenal of Democracy ... Lt. Gen. Levin H. Campbell, Jr., Chief of Ordnance from 1942 to 1946, proudly had this to say: From Pearl Harbor to V-J Day the Industry-Ordnance team furnished to the Army and 43 foreign nations 47 billion rounds of small arms ammunition, approximately 11 million tons of artillery ammunition, more than 12 million rifles and carbines, approximately 750,000 artillery pieces and 3/2 million military vehicles. history.stackexchange.com