GUN-GRABBER WATCH: DHS To Purchase 62 Million Rounds Of AR-15 Ammo...

[paulitician]

What's ole Big Brother up to now? No good, i'm sure.


Feds attempting to control the market, dry up supply? Purchase in addition to billions of bullets previously bought by feds

The Department of Homeland Security is set to purchase over 62 million rounds of ammo typically used in AR-15 semi-automatic rifles, just weeks after the ATF was forced to back down on a ban on M855 bullets.

A posting on FedBizOpps.gov this week reveals that the DHS is looking to contract with a company to provide 12.6 million rounds of .223 Remington ammunition per year for a period of five years – totaling 62.5 million bullets.

The solicitation explains that the purchase is intended, “to achieve price savings over the current .223 Rem duty ammunition.” The bullets will be used by U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents nationwide for “training” purposes.

The .223 Remington is one of the most common rifle cartridges in use in the United States and is used both in bolt action rifles and semi-automatic rifles such as the AR-15 and the Ruger Mini-14.

In 2013, following concerns about the DHS buying large quantities of several different types of ammunition, weapons manufacturers noted that the feds may have been attempting to control the ammunition market by forcing manufacturers to hold back stock from general sale.

“If they periodically do this in increments, they’re going to control how much ammo is available on the commercial market,” a weapons manufacturer told Michael Savage, adding that the contracts with bullet manufacturers stipulate that everything made goes to the government as the number one priority before it is allowed to enter the commercial market.

In March 2013, Californian Congressman Doug LaMalfa and 14 of his House peers wrote a letter to the Department of Homeland Security demanding to know why the federal agency was buying so many rounds of ammunition and whether the purchases were part of a deliberate attempt to restrict supply to the American people...

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[paulitician]

Looks like Big Brother is trying to dry up Ammo stocks. Looks like he's preparing for war against his own People. Seems like a very sad inevitability at this point.

 

[G.T.]

Ohnoes

 

[MisterBeale]

Psshhhh. They do this every year. This is their annual purchase for their training and practice.

 

[MisterBeale]

Of course, none of their agents EVER DEPLOY those guns. Still, they keep them trained and up to date on the usage of them. Just in case they need to arrange another Waco or Ruby Ridge, their boys will be trained and up to snuff.

 

[Luddly Neddite]

Well, you wouldn't want all those coffins to go to waste, would you?


You're such a knee jerk dingbat. This was posted a long time ago and debunked. The previous thread is right where it belongs - in the Conspiracy forum.

 

[paulitician]

Clearly, Big Brother is preparing for inevitable civil unrest. What the trigger will be for that mass unrest? I don't know. There are various possible scenarios. But it does look like Big Brother is getting prepared.

 

[M14 Shooter]

Psshhhh. They do this every year. This is their annual purchase for their training and practice.

~240,000 people under the DHS
62,000,000 rounds
That's 258 rounds - about 9 30-rd magazines per person per year, assuming each and every employee trains with an AR.
This is, of course, not the case.

 

[paulitician]

Well, you wouldn't want all those coffins to go to waste, would you?


You're such a knee jerk dingbat. This was posted a long time ago and debunked. The previous thread is right where it belongs - in the Conspiracy forum.

Yes we know, marginalization by way of hateful ridicule. You make Big Brother very proud.

 

[MisterBeale]

Psshhhh. They do this every year. This is their annual purchase for their training and practice.

~240,000 people under the DHS
62,000,000 rounds
That's 258 rounds - about 9 30-rd magazines per person per year, assuming each and every employee trains with an AR.
This is, of course, not the case.

Of course it's not the case. Many of those people are specialized. They probably go through 10 mag. a day in training. Others? They are secretaries, and it isn't their jobs.

 

[M14 Shooter]

Psshhhh. They do this every year. This is their annual purchase for their training and practice.

~240,000 people under the DHS
62,000,000 rounds
That's 258 rounds - about 9 30-rd magazines per person per year, assuming each and every employee trains with an AR.
This is, of course, not the case.

Of course it's not the case. Many of those people are specialized. They probably go through 10 mag. a day in training. Others? They are secretaries, and it isn't their jobs.

Right. 62,000,000 million rounds for yearly training seems pretty high.

 

[Luddly Neddite]

The Great DHS Ammunition Stockpile Myth

There are dozens of articles hyping government purchases of ammunition over the last nine months. After spending weeks researching this topic, this is a collection of commonly held myths that are based more on panic than fact.
The Great DHS Ammunition Stockpile Myth - Breitbart



Oh the irony of Breitbart being the voice of sanity. But, you don't get much crazier than Alex Jones.

Note the dates of previous ammo buys as well as the date of this op/ed.



Here's what Snopes has to say -




Bullet Whole

Claim: The Social Security Administration (SSA) and Department of Homeland Security (DHS) are buying arms as preparation for civil unrest.

MIXTURE:

TRUE: The SSA issued a Request for Quote for 174,000 rounds of hollow point bullets.

PARTLY TRUE: The DHS issued requests for quotes for hundreds of millions of rounds of ammunition.

FALSE: The SSA and DHS are stocking up on ammunition in preparation for civil unrest.

FALSE: The DHS has purchased 2,700 tanks for use in the U.S.


Looks like the nutters better stay under their mommy's bed.

 

[C_Clayton_Jones]

Not this idiocy again...

And this nonsense belongs in the CT forum.