that s creating an ammunition shortage in the united states as manufacturers still struggle to keep up with demand. here to discuss is public affairs director for the national shooting sports foundation, mark aliva. tell us what s happening here. a lot of people are buying guns and there s this nationwide ammunition shortage. how bad is it? good morning, carl each thanks for having me. it s making things very difficult for gun owners. again, 21 million guns were sold last year and so far this year 2021 we ve had nearly 9.8 million background checks for the sale of guns of we re waiting for the numbers to come out from the fbi to see was july background checks turned out to be. every one of the guns that were sold including the 8.4 million estimated new gun owners from last year have been injected into the markets. each of the gun owners needs ammunition. we re seeing that just about the same thing that happened last year with toilet paper also happened with ammunition, people
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