More Random Paranoia from the States

From the Bordering on Fringe Collection:

Guns & Ammo - shortages of ammunition persist - in particular 9mm ammunition - across the States. Whether shopping Wal-Mart or Cabelas (an outdoorsman outfitter chain) or a local gun shop, 9mm is mighty hard to find. Shotgun shells are fairly bountiful yet, but there is a massive shortage surrounding 9mm and more common rounds used by assault weapons. As mentioned previously, it appears that the anti-gun lobbyists (unable to accomplish an assault weapons ban) are now targeting ammunition used by said weapons. See this article here: http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=92095 - this news source is relatively fringe in terms of content focus, though not tabloid-esque.

I recently visited one of the local outfitters and asked the folks at the gun counter how business was - they reported that it continues to be very to extremely swift... both in new/used gun purchases and ammunition - hard-to-finds in terms of weapons are, of course, more traditional assault rifles and 9mm handguns - as such, I am told people are shifting to smaller "tactical weapons" (short carbines, etc.).

From the almost, but not quite, Kingdom of Nigh (pretty out there stuff) Collection:

The Pending Pandemic - always fun to mull over - the next major Pandemic - AIDS does't really count, now that the legions of afflicted in the Western World can be preserved for some time through pharma-coctails - re: Magic Johnson - although we have hit a Centers for Disease Control figure of >3% in the DC Metropolitan Area. The rates in Africa are terribly high, but again, now that the West can band-aid it it seems to have lost its immediacy in the minds of the proletariat and bourgeoisie (as well as the ruling elite). So that leaves us with Bird Flu - http://rense.com/general85/dsd2.htm - now if'n you believe even for a second that there is some sort of global manipulation going on in the affairs of Man, then this will shiver your spine - on the other hand, if you believe corruption stops at the UN and other supra-national organizations, then this is just more lunacy.