COPS DISARMED BY AMMO-HOARDING GUN NUTS, claims Salon writer, as spotted by J.D. Tuccille at the Reason Hit & Run blog:

Hey, there’s no doubt that gun and ammunition companies are doing booming business at the moment, falling behind on orders because they just can’t meet demand. Want that to stop? Get politicians to stop threatening to impose restrictive laws. Until then, people will certainly buy what they can, while they can.

Oh, and if cops are running short on ammunition, maybe they could ask the Department of Homeland Security to share. Fifteen members of Congress recently wrote (PDF) to Janet Napolitano to ask why DHS needs to buy 1.6 billion rounds of ammo when the federal government is pleading poverty.

Janet will get back to them any moment now…