Posted on 03/24/2013 9:43:47 PM PDT by Ghost of Jesus Gil
The Department of Homeland Security has plans to buy enough ammunition to fight the equivalent of a 24-year Iraq War – on US territory – and even US congressmen don’t understand why.
Smack in the middle of the smoking gun-control debate, and despite deep spending cuts across the American heartland, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) wants to buy 1.6 billion rounds of ammunition over the next five years.
(Excerpt) Read more at albanytribune.com ...
Over a five year period that's about 162 rounds per month.
100% of this spending is appropriated by a Republican majority Congress. They either agree with the plan or they are not doing their duty.
And I, at least, have not heard a peep from from the Republicans about this.
To boil down “The Gulag Archipelago” to its essence: “Me? What for?”
You are about as misinformed as the author of the article. Inaccurate information posted on the Internet and re-posted over and over again, doesn't make it true.
The Geneva Conventions deals with the proper treatment of war prisoners among other subjects. The Hague Conventions deal with the means of fighting civilized wars among other subjects. The United States is not a signatory of The Hague Conventions although we comply with the restrictions most of the time.
Please learn the appropriate Conventions before posting more misinformation.
I don’t think DHS is thinking in terms of practice unless is on live targets called American men, women, and children. Napolitano, Holder, and Obama are evil. Why is DHS ordering “desensitizing” color targets of pregnant women, kids. women, elders, women and kids if they’re not planning on murdering Americans? Funny, too, all the targets depict white people as hostiles.
You should train with what you carry. I shoot at least a magazine worth of what I carry every month. If the DHS carries hollow points, they should train with them. Do they need 1.6 billion rounds, no, I don't think so. I think they were purchased with ulterior motives but that is a completely different discussion.
Is it strange that military personnel report they have never trained with hollow points? No, not strange at all, they do not carry hollow points into battle, why would they train with them?
You point out the real question, what is the purpose of arming up the DHS? That is the question that is getting drowned out by discussions about what you should train with and whether the DHS is saving money by buying in bulk.
And to add to your points, since the 70’s is there a civilian police dept, sheriff’s dept or federal law agency that does *NOT* carry hollow-points as duty rounds?
Has anyone thought that maybe the DHS and select members of Congress are aware of an impending threat they have tried to keep from the general populace? A few well-placed dirty bombs set off simultaneously in key population centers could functionally disable a large part of our nation. I’m as paranoid as anyone about the present administration, but there may be more than one explanation for this.
I think those jobs have been delegated to the National Guard in the past. I would support increasing their preparedness and keeping them subject to the local Governer.
We do not need a national internal paramilitary.
Wallstreet comes to mind.
I’m not saying all of this and Obama’s campaigning against guns is somehow related, but....if I wanted to be a dictator, I’d work hard to make owning guns seem “uncool” while legislating against them, and arm up my shock troops.
“even US congressmen don’t understand why”
They want to fight us, they want to conquer us, they want to subjegate us, they want to rule us.
I’d pay money to see a donut-munching DHS agent hump 24,000 rounds into the field.
I picked up a case of the stuff at the ammo point, broke open the wooden shipping container to get to the two .50 caliber ammo cans inside. Each can contained 1,000 rounds in 50-round boxes.
I put the boxes roughly at shoulder width, bent slightly to grab the handles, and stepped off smartly — except the two boxes clung to the deck like glue. Wait just a minute! I reassessed my approach to moving them and this time I was successful. Those boxes got pretty heavy before I got back to the hut. I was impressed then by the sheer concentrated weight of the ammo — and I still am.
I recall lugging a 1,000 rd case of 7.62X39 out of a gun show some years back. Cursing how far away we had parked the whole time. But somewhat thankful I hadn't been greedy enough to buy two.
— except the two boxes clung to the deck like glue.
That sounds a little like the old construction site gag of nailing somebody's lunch box to the deck.
That’s close...nailing a lunch box to the deck. I took to calling these 1,000-round boxes of .45 ACP Ball as “wait a minute boxes”.
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