"The Washington Post" is reporting on record breaking amounts of cash being spent this year on guns and ammunition.

Industry officials report gun owners have purchased about 12-billion rounds of ammunition this year.

That amounts to 38 bullets for every American.

Sales in a normal year would be about seven-billion bullets.

The sales boom, which has exceeded bullet-makers capacity to produce the product, began just before the election of President Obama.

The gun-rights lobby claimed a Democratic administration would clamp down on weapons sales beginning with ammunition.

Industry experts say gun sales traditionally increase with a Democratic administration but they say the Obama spike is on a whole different scale, with 2009 expected to be a record sales year.

While some gun rights groups are suspicious of a Democrat in the White House, an administration spokesman says, quote, "the President respects and supports the Second Amendment and the tradition of gun ownership in this country." Wayne LaPierre, executive vice president of the National Rifle Association, said, quote, "I think it's Katrina.

I think it's terrorism.

I think it's crime.

And I also think it's people worrying about (whether) they'll be attacked by politicians." He says "They're suspicious, and justifiably so."

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