![]() "It's a case of supply and demand," he said. to thank for the problem, says Kyle Burch, a salesman for Al Simmons Gun Shop. Gun owners all over Hamilton and the rest of Canada have been dealing with the shortage for years. Hamilton officers fired their guns 47 times last year, and each time the shots were fired to euthanize an animal.īut each officer needs to fire a minimum of 100 live rounds to be certified on his or her firearm each year (50 of which are counted as a test), and the ammunition shortage could have threatened those certifications. It's not like local police are mowing through cases of ammo in public, though. "They have made changes to their production and were able to fulfil our order for this year right away." "Last year we had a shortage because the manufacturer was having a difficult time keeping up with global demand," Sgt. A lot of Americans say Obama is the best gun salesman out there.- Kyle Burch, Al Simmons Gun Shop So many Americans are stockpiling bullets that Hamilton's police service is having trouble getting what they need. It's a massive, complicated problem with its roots in the U.S., where everything from natural disasters to a volatile political climate has made getting your hands on ammunition increasingly difficult.Īs most ammo flows north through the U.S., Canadians are feeling the brunt, too. “And I said, ‘I never want to see a president in a position like that, where we may have conflict and a general looks at him and said we have very little, slash, no ammunition.’ ” ( Campaign rally in New Mexico, Sept.A widespread ammunition shortage afflicting gun owners across North America hit Hamilton police so hard last year they had a hard time scrounging up enough ammo to get officers trained and certified.I don’t want to say, ‘No ammunition,’ but that gets a lot closer.” (Remarks at the White House, Sept. And he said to me, ‘Sir, if you could, delay it, because we’re very low on ammunition.’ And I said: ‘You know what, general? I never want to hear that again from another general.’ No president should ever, ever hear that statement, ‘We’re low on ammunition.’ … So, we are very high on ammunition now. Because we were at a position where, with a certain country - I won’t say which one - we may have had conflict. “You know, when I came here three years ago almost, General Mattis told me, ‘Sir, we’re very low on ammunition.’ I said, ‘That’s a horrible thing to say.’ I’m not blaming him I’m not blaming anybody.Frankly, we didn’t have ammunition, okay?” ( News conference with Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison at the White House, Sept. “When I came in, our military was depleted.Sir, we don’t have ammunition.’ I said, ‘I’ll never let another president have that happen to him or her.’ We didn’t have ammunition.” (Remarks at the White House, Oct. I was told by a top general - maybe the top of them all - ‘Sir, I’m sorry. “When I took over our military, we didn’t have ammunition.He said, ‘Sir, we have no ammunition.’ … I never want to have a president hear the words, ‘Sir, we have no ammunition.’ ” ( Campaign rally in Minneapolis, Oct. “When I came into office, a very prominent general told me because it looked like we could have a big conflict with some.And hopefully we’ll never going to have to use it, but we have a lot of it.’ But I also said, ‘I never want to have another president of the United States to hear those words from a general.’ ” (Speech to the Value Voters Summit, Oct. He said, ‘Sir, we have no ammunition.’ I said: ‘You know what? We’re going to have ammunition - a lot of it. And we were having big trouble with one country - first week in office, very early. “We had a general come to my office - respected general.… The general told me, ‘Sir, I’m sorry, we have no ammunition.’ And no president should ever be in that position.” ( Fox News interview, Oct. “When I came in, we had no ammunition two and a half years ago.
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