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Why does Homeland Security need 1.4 billion rounds of ammunition?
American Thinker ^ | September 19, 2012 | Lee DeCovnick

Posted on 09/20/2012 5:16:11 AM PDT by Travis McGee

The Department of Homeland Security has purchased 1.4 billion rounds of ammunition- that is not a typo -- during the last six months. This includes 450 million rounds of .40 hollow point, 200 million rounds of .223 rifle ammunition, and 176,000 rounds of .308 168-grain hollow point boat tail (HPBT) that is used almost exclusively as ammo for sniper rifles.

From beforeitsnews.com we read:

Why is everyone all up in arms about the recent purchase by Homeland security of 1.4 Billion rounds of ammunition?

Our undeclared Foreign War in Iraq Consumes about 70,000,000 (70 Million) Rounds of Ammunition Each Year, which would take about 20 years to consume 1.4 billion rounds of ammunition ordered by the Department of Homeland Security alone, not including all the ammunition ordered by the weather service, Social Security, etc! 20 Years To Use All 1.4 Billion Rounds Of This Ammo?

Is the Department of Homeland security to protect us from foreign terrorists, or to protect the central government from the American people?

Read the entire chilling article. Avoid any political discussions about Obama's infamous 2008 quote, lest your blood pressure dangerously rise.

"We cannot continue to rely on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we've set. We've got to have a civilian national security force that's just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded."

Read more: http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2012/09/why_does_homeland_security_need_14_billion_rounds_of_ammunition.html#ixzz270lpFOk8

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Conspiracy; Government; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: 2012; ammo; banglist; cw2; cwiiping; dhs; obama; tyranny; youwillnotdisarmus
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To: varon
Who will come to help liberate us???

"I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, "Whom shall I send, and who will go for us?"
Then I said, "Here am I; send me!"
...Isaiah 6:8


RLTW...an oath not forgotten.

41 posted on 09/20/2012 7:43:00 AM PDT by Tainan (Cogito, ergo conservatus sum)
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To: Charles Martel

Again, this guy Westmoreland is throwing it out there that this is training ammunition.

Hollowpoint ammo is NOT training ammunition. It is not needed to punch holes in paper, it is best for punching great jagged holes in people.


42 posted on 09/20/2012 7:54:38 AM PDT by Molon Labbie (Prep. Now. Live Healthy, take your Shooting Iron daily.)
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To: Travis McGee
Is the Department of Homeland security to protect us from foreign terrorists, or to protect the central government from the American people?

By George, I think he's got it!

43 posted on 09/20/2012 11:01:07 AM PDT by JimRed (Excise the cancer before it kills us; feed &water the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS, NOW & FOREVER!)
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To: DTogo
To unknowingly become field supply points to Patriot forces in the coming R2/CW2.

How do we determine the locations of their armories? Will we have to take out our National Guard neighbors to capture them? Or will bureaucrats be standing security over the facilities?

So many questions!

44 posted on 09/20/2012 11:07:34 AM PDT by JimRed (Excise the cancer before it kills us; feed &water the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS, NOW & FOREVER!)
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To: JimRed

45 posted on 09/20/2012 11:07:56 AM PDT by timestax (Why not drug tests for the President AND all White Hut staff ? ? ?)
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To: Travis McGee
aside from the obvious, are they trying to create a shortage and or drive up prices???
46 posted on 09/20/2012 2:47:33 PM PDT by Chode (American Hedonist - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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To: DTogo
LOL!!! it could happen...
47 posted on 09/20/2012 2:48:11 PM PDT by Chode (American Hedonist - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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To: Travis McGee

With each story the number keeps going up, now it’s up to 1.4 BILLION............gee, that’s a lot of ammo.


48 posted on 09/20/2012 2:51:54 PM PDT by Hot Tabasco (')
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To: Molon Labbie
Hollowpoint ammo is NOT training ammunition. It is not needed to punch holes in paper, it is best for punching great jagged holes in people.

It may not be training ammo to someone who has to buy their own, but if cost is no object, like a gov't agency training with your duty ammo makes sense.

49 posted on 09/20/2012 3:41:18 PM PDT by xone
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To: Travis McGee

BTTT. ...


50 posted on 09/20/2012 4:12:14 PM PDT by Squantos ( Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everyone you meet ...)
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To: CodeToad; JimRed

DHS bureaucrats in charge of supply/distribution will likely hand out ammo to (newly-badged and ill-trained) agents like DoE hands out tax dollars to green energy boondoggles, “Lots of Tea Party Extremists out there, better take an extra case.” Thanks in advance, Janet!


51 posted on 09/21/2012 7:03:56 AM PDT by DTogo (High time to bring back the Sons of Liberty !!)
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To: Travis McGee

Lying in bed waiting for the sun to rise, I started thinking of every possibility that this ammunition could be used for.

The best one is that the Muslims start protesting in the USA and it has to be used on them to quell the crowds and keep them from torching our schools and theaters. I am certain that is about 720 degrees out of alignment from what is actually intended.


52 posted on 09/21/2012 9:08:42 AM PDT by B4Ranch (There's Two Choices... Stand Up and Be Counted ... Or Line Up and Be Numbered .)
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To: B4Ranch

I’m thinking that their deep planners are thinking that a total civil breakdown will follow a financial collapse.

EBTs flashing ZERO etc.

They will need to “restore order by any means necessary,” and they may not have a chance to obtain any more ammo for several years or longer, once the factories are closed etc.

It’s an adjunct to “continuity of govt operations.”

“Continuity of ammunition.”

That’s my take. They are planning for “Taxamageddon” or some other “Amageddon” leading to a total social breakdown and explosion.


53 posted on 09/21/2012 9:36:12 AM PDT by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: Travis McGee

It’s not like it’s needed at our foreign embassies.


54 posted on 09/21/2012 9:37:12 AM PDT by Joe 6-pack (Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
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To: Joe 6-pack

Exactly.


55 posted on 09/21/2012 9:40:24 AM PDT by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: Travis McGee
"...and they may not have a chance to obtain any more ammo for several years or longer, once the factories are closed etc."

Well, at least WE will know where to go when we need more ammunition ... we can "draw" on their stash ...

56 posted on 09/21/2012 9:41:01 AM PDT by BlueLancer (You cannot conquer a free man. The most you can do is kill him. (R. Heinlein - "If This Goes On"))
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To: Travis McGee
There is no reason our embassies in the ME shouldn't have a cache of crew served weapons. Depending on the terrain around the compound, a complement of M60s, Mk19s and even M2s should be on site for area denial if the host nation refuses, or fails to secure the surrounding area.

We've learned nothing from Khobar Towers and the Downing Report.

57 posted on 09/21/2012 9:52:14 AM PDT by Joe 6-pack (Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
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To: Travis McGee

“...total social breakdown and explosion.”

The globalists’ community organizer, Obama, has been working the Middle East for chaos and he wants it here, too. He wants a world collapse. World war is likely.

Out of collapse-chaos will come the “progress” of the New World Order. One world bank, one world currency, Nations made into states to carry out the orders of an unelected global government. Debt erased. New phase of hell for mankind.


58 posted on 09/21/2012 10:39:25 AM PDT by SaraJohnson
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To: SaraJohnson

They are very optimistic to believe they can grab the reins of a NWO out of total disorder that will follow the EBT cards etc flashing ERROR.

Mad Max anarchy is just as likely.


59 posted on 09/21/2012 11:47:06 AM PDT by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: Travis McGee

Mad Max anarchy is just as likely.


I see anarchy as the means to the end - NWO.


60 posted on 09/21/2012 11:56:33 AM PDT by SaraJohnson
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