Echoing that from Spokane, WA LEO budget.
Cost of ammo has SPD biting the bullet.
Spokane Police Firearms Training.
SPOKANE -- The Spokane Police Department must pay more to fire away, a whole lot more.
Bullets are about double what they cost two years ago. And it seems like the city has no choice but to pay. The price of what bullets are made of is skyrocketing. (Why?)
And to make matters worse, lead, brass and copper are in shrinking supply. (Why?)
So what police used to pay for a case of bullets $113, is now $208.
$100,000 is already spent annually on ammunition for city police, and that cost is only expected to go up. (Why?)
KREM 2 News learned the department will start buying bullets once a year, instead of every few months, because prices increase throughout the year, by as much as 10-percent at a time. (like gas?)
The department also uses less expensive types of ammunition in certain training to conserve top dollar bullets. (Good idea or do Chi-com rounds work fine?)
Friday, June 6, 2008
© Trevor VanDyken/KREM.com
[Making every round worth the paperwork hours it takes 2 file a report & taking the LEO shooter of his/her beat doing just that] If doubling ammo costs effect this small city I would venture to say the same crunch is effecting your local P & S fellas, or is the next step re-loads, 4 practice no-big, but if my life depends on a good fresh round I guess we have another tax-hike heading our way
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