First the good news.
It’s not just the movie biz, certain cut-rate retailers, Sarah Palin Inc. and shoe-repair and pawn shops that are staying solvent during these economically turbulent times. Indeed, there’s an industry that is realizing the unprecedented profits it has been confidently shooting for these last 10 months.
Now the bad news.
That industry is the ammunition business. The impetus: NRA ads that have portrayed President Elect — and now President — Barack Obama as anti-gun, if not the anti-Christ. In fact, so anti-gun that his anti-American, stealth agenda just might include the restriction of gun sales and gun ownership. And it’s no quantum leap, of course, to gun confiscation after that.
For those keeping count, it means nearly 10 billion American-made bullets will be produced this year. Last year it was about 7.5 billion. Sleep well.