The mood on the street is obviously not as hopeful as the Obamunists would have liked:

NEW ORLEANS — Bullet-makers are working around the clock, seven days a week, and still can’t keep up with the nation’s demand for ammunition.

Shooting ranges, gun dealers and bullet manufacturers say they have never seen such shortages. Bullets, especially for handguns, have been scarce for months because gun enthusiasts are stocking up on ammo, in part because they fear President Barack Obama and the Democratic-controlled Congress will pass antigun legislation — even though nothing specific has been proposed and the president last month signed a law allowing people to carry loaded guns in national parks.

Gun sales spiked when it became clear Obama would be elected a year ago and purchases continued to rise in his first few months of office. The FBI’s National Instant Criminal Background Check System reported that 6.1 million background checks for gun sales were issued from January to May, an increase of 25.6 percent from the same period the year before.

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“We are working overtime and still can’t keep up with the demand,” said Al Russo, spokesman for North Carolina-based Remington Arms Company, which makes bullets for rifles, handguns and shotguns. “We’ve had to add a fourth shift and go 24-7. It’s a phenomenon that I have not seen before in my 30 years in the business.”

Americans usually buy about 7 billion rounds of ammunition a year, according to the National Rifle Association. In the past year, that figure has jumped to about 9 billion rounds, said NRA spokeswoman Vickie Cieplak.

I myself have been hoarding ammo, but again the media has it wrong. It isn’t about Democrats (entirely) but about a collapsing dollar, looming hyperinflation and a government that is causing food shortages that we will begin seeing soon. Don’t get me started on the wheat crisis. In other words, smart folk see the possibility of America sliding into second world status so quickly there may be civil unrest.

But that doesn’t fit the narrative of Obama as savior so it looks like we’ll keep getting stories of how we’re paranoid gun nuts.

h/t Drudge