......I may have read the same article as you about the government buying up all the ammo, storing it in large steel containers, and setting it in strategic locations around the country. The same article alluded to armor-plated FEMA vehicles being seen on trailers going who-knows-where.
Personally, I'm not putting much faith in those reports. It's getting harder and harder to believe some of the stuff that is passed down as "Gospel", particularly if it came from the Internet. I was at a very large gun wholesale-retail operation here in north-central Pennsylvania just last week, and yes, the .22 and handgun ammo was scarce. One sign posted at the .22 ammo area said "One brick per family per month", and the stuff that was left was an off-brand that most people wouldn't buy if the good stuff was available. No 9mm ammo at all. A little .380. But you know what's interesting?? Nearly any caliber centerfire ammo, with the exception of .223 was on the shelves, and could be had. Just further convinced me that this is probably one of the worst cases of panic-buying I have ever seen, and ever hope to see.

Oh, and how many of you watched VP Joe Biden last night (2/19/13) tell a female caller on a talk show he was on that all she needed to protect herself and family with was a double-barreled shotgun. He said she had no need for an AR-15 or guns of that magnitude, or weapons with high-capacity magazines. Where in the blazes does this guy get off telling ANYBODY what gun they should have or need in their own personal home?? He talked to her like she was some kind of idiot. What a condescending, smug-faced ass.