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On October 9, TIME's Joe Klein published a column lumping Breitbart News reports in with “conspiracy theories” surrounding federal agency ammunition purchases and suggesting those reports are causal in confusing voters as the 2014 mid-term elections approach. To push this template, Klein had to miss an April 8, 2013, Breitbart News column showing that government ammunition purchases were a component in the creation of a “politically-induced buying panic” that left store shelves barren of ammo. In turn, the scarcity of ammunition–combined with the frenzied demand for it–drove prices through the roof.