The impact is especially being felt by law enforcement – worse still for small-town police departments – who continue to be impacted by rising costs and limited availability.
In the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, the nationwide ammunition shortage has increased prices of ammunition at a rate that it is taxing the budgets of some of the rural police departments.
“It is substantial and that causes us, our budget, to hurt at the end of the year,” Sheriff Greg Zyburt, Marquette County, told TV 6 News.