[Infowarrior] - DHS buying 21m more rounds of ammo

[Richard Forno]

Conspiracy theories aside, it's high time someone in the major media asked WTF is going on with yet another huge purchase of ammo by DHS.  It can't be all for "training" purposes.....maybe all this is a backdoor way of reducing the # of rounds made available to citizens to try and control gun violence?
  ---rick
 


US Govt betters Civilians, buys additional 21 million rounds of Ammo	 	 	 
Thursday, 07 February 2013
http://macedoniaonline.eu/content/view/22655/61/

The US Government seems to have find a good way to spend tax payers dollars. But it isn't new roads or hospitals... it's Guns and Ammo!

The US 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.