22 Million MORE Rounds of Ammunition...

[Will E Worm]

BREAKING: 'Homeland' to Buy 22 Million MORE Rounds of Ammunition...

The Department of Homeland Security is set to purchase a further 21.6 million rounds of ammunition to add to the 1.6 billion bullets it has already obtained over the course of the last 10 months alone, figures which have stoked concerns that the federal agency is preparing for civil unrest.

A solicitation posted yesterday on the Fed Bid website details how the bullets are required for the DHS Federal Law Enforcement Training Center in Artesia, New Mexico.

The solicitation asks for 10 million pistol cartridge .40 caliber 165 Grain, jacketed Hollow point bullets (100 quantities of 100,000 rounds) and 10 million 9mm 115 grain jacketed hollow point bullets (100 quantities of 100,000 rounds).

The document also lists a requirement for 1.6 million pistol cartridge 9mm ball bullets (40 quantities of 40,000 rounds).

An approximation of how many rounds of ammunition the DHS has now secured over the last 10 months stands at around 1.625 billion. In March 2012, ATK announced that they had agreed to provide the DHS with a maximum of 450 million bullets over four years, a story that prompted questions about why the feds were buying ammunition in such large quantities.

To put that in perspective, during the height of active battle operations in Iraq, US soldiers used 5.5 million rounds of ammunition a month. Extrapolating the figures, the DHS has purchased enough bullets over the last 10 months to wage a full scale war for almost 30 years.

Such massive quantities of ammo purchases have stoked fears that the agency is preparing for some kind of domestic unrest. In 2011, Department of Homeland Security chief Janet Napolitano directed Immigration and Customs Enforcement to prepare for a mass influx of immigrants into the United States, calling for the plan to deal with the “shelter” and “processing” of large numbers of people.

The federal agency’s primary concern is now centered around thwarting “homegrown terrorism,” but information produced and used by the DHS to train its personnel routinely equates conservative political ideology with domestic extremism.

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[Mayhem]

I'd like to see the price list on this. One way of looking at it is they are pushing for a bulk rate discount, which saves the taxpayer money over the long run.

 

[Johan]

Once Obama would have repeal the 2nd amendment, these ammos wil be used to kill every US citizen that wouldn't resist to police NSA agents sarching their homes and their car to seize every gun the people would posess.

Then, when America will be disarm, Obama would claim himself US Reichsfuhrer. And he will repeal the whole Constitution and put Sharia instead.

 

[Kingfisher]

In a way it's another tactic to limit the average citizen from getting ammo. This not only limits manufacturing from keeping pace with demands, which was already stretched to the limit, but now it creates an artificial price spike and a lack of what's already out there.

Talking to a friend in the ammo business, he recently said that supply should return to normal in the next couple of months. I guess not anymore.

 

[Sam Fisher]

I'd like to see the price list on this. One way of looking at it is they are pushing for a bulk rate discount, which saves the taxpayer money over the long run.

Uhmm.... remove your rose colored glasses, please.

 

[Mayhem]

Uhmm.... remove your rose colored glasses, please.

I'll be happy to just as soon as you lose your siege mentality. Deal?