I guess I'm just not seeing the shortage of ammo. Most of the stores near me never kept more than a few boxes of each brand in stock at any time, but would special order for you. If they're gone now, I'd chalk that up to someone buying a handgun and just wanting to buy ammo for it at the same time. Went to Walmart last night and they had probably 20 boxes each of WWB 9mm, 40 and 45. The rifle calibers that were short were deer calibers. Shotgun shells are overflowing into the aisles. There was a midaisle setup with the Federal and Remington 100 packs on proud display next to childrens' bikes.
I would believe that gun sales are up though. Took me almost an hour and a half to get any help at basspro the other day, due to clerks filling out paperwork for about 10 people. I *would* like to get one more hunting rifle while I can get out of having to phone the purchase in, but I'm not stressing over it. I can't see standard rifles being on a political hit list for a while, plus I'm already up 4 guns this year.