As if America doesn't have enough guns in military, police and private hands already - but the tiniest hint that US law-makers may defy the awesome might of the US gun lobby propels Americans to stock up on more guns and bullets to be able to out-gun each other in a dispute.
In Australia, gun wholesalers are expecting one of the biggest supply shortages in recent history with American civilians purchasing arms at record speed.
Scrutiny of gun laws in the United States is thought to have sparked the gun sales boom, with the flow-on effects expected to reach Aussie shores within weeks.
Some of the most popular bullets will soon be gone in Australia and New Zealand and won't be restocked for about another six months.
Aussie firearm importers are being told to brace for supplies to run thin or totally dry up within weeks.
Meanwhile the latest gun massacre in California (at Santa Monica) did not disrupt top-level talks between world leaders wIth Obama hoping for better gun-toting military relations with China.
The world's two biggest super-powers ganging up on human rights is cause for great unease. Why fight each when (like Hitler and Stalin) they can carve up the world into American and Chinese spheres of influence. Who woud get Australia? Watch this space and stock up on rifles and ammo!
If we remain part of the American Empire it may be prudent to bone up the history of America and guns. This history of of America is narrated by a bullet:
