The rising price of guns in Iraq

NPR has a very good interview with an Iraqi small arms merchant who describes the rapidly rising price of weapons in Iraq. Handguns and AK's have doubled, the more exotic weapons, RPG's grenades, have gone up alot more.

The question about the price rise is whether it is supply or demand. Whether it is the US finds of weapons caches that are dropping supply, or whether all sides are arming up for a civil war. The weapons dealer thinks it's the latter.