US soldiers use more than 1 billion bullets a year
Posted by Kasim | Under Crime and War Thursday Aug 14, 2008
On average, the cost of ammunition has increased by 67 per cent between 2004 and this year, said the state General Administration office, which negotiates contracts with suppliers for state and local agencies. “It’s expected to get worse,” he said. Contributing to the ammunition price increase are skyrocketing prices for copper and lead, prompted in part by higher demand for those materials from China, a country building its infrastructure at a frenzied pace. Another factor is the federal government’s demand for ammunition to use in Iraq and Afghanistan, said Steve Valandra, a spokesman for the state General Administration department. Soldiers in Afghanistan and Iraq use more than one billion bullets a year.
