So do you know what happened with bullets around this time? So Alex likes to pretend that the government was just buying up all the ammunition. I do remember him talking about that. The 2008 election of Barack Obama triggered increased sales in both firearms and ammunition. USA Today reported that in Wyoming, the run-on bullets and reloading components reached such a frenzy that a Cheyenne dealer began rationing sales and said she was also selling semi-automatic rifles as fast as she could put them on the shelves. The issue was not ever that the government was buying up stuff. It was that these people, these propagandists, were creating such a fervor of they're gonna take your guns that everyone bought out the stock so fucking fast that there was a legitimate... Years-long ammunition shortage.