Posted on 02/28/2013 11:44:09 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Former Governor of Alaska Sarah Palin has warned that the federal government is “stockpiling bullets” in preparation for “civil unrest,” adding that America is “finished” if it cannot deal with its debt problem.
Writing on her official Facebook page, Palin remarked, “If we are going to wet our proverbial pants over 0.3% in annual spending cuts when we’re running up trillion dollar annual deficits, then we’re done. Put a fork in us. We’re finished. We’re going to default eventually and that’s why the feds are stockpiling bullets in case of civil unrest.”
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The Department of Homeland Security has committed to purchasing around 2 billion bullets over the course of the last year, in addition to buying 7,000 fully automatic assault rifles last September (the agency referred to them as “personal defense weapons”).
Although the mainstream media has played down the purchases as the feds merely saving money by buying in bulk, the ammo buys have contributed to shortages across the country.
However, concerns were further stoked last week when Law Enforcement Targets Inc, a DHS contractor that supplies shooting targets to the agency along with thousands of police departments, was forced to apologize for producing “non-traditional threat” targets which featured images of pregnant women, children and elderly gun owners in residential settings.
Politico published an article following Palin’s Facebook post bizarrely claiming that her concerns about the federal government purchasing ammo in large quantities had been debunked despite admitting that “government agencies are, in fact, purchasing large amounts of ammunition.” This tactic of admitting that the government is purchasing a huge number of bullets while simultaneously portraying anyone concerned about the fact as erroneous and paranoid has been adopted by other mainstream media outlets....
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I have a young acquaintance who was in JROTC a couple of years ago at her high school, in a black and hispanic area. JROTC was a p.e. class. It was full of people who didn’t feel like doing regular p.e., not people who cared about military service. These would be the people who were marching in your parade on Veterans Day— people cruising along for their required p.e. credit.
So are the Civilians. And there are more of us.
How is Sarah wrong? DHS and several other government agencies have been buying up ammunition like never before. For example, why would the Social Security Administration need 174,000 rounds of .357 Sig 125 grain bonded jacketed hollow point pistol ammunition? What’s with the NOAA ordering 46,000 rounds — also of hollow point ammunition? Since March, DHS has ordered 1.5 billion rounds, nearly half of which are hollow-point and/or wall-penetrating.
If you want to buy the line it’s all for “training,” go on ahead. I’m not so gullible.
Hollow points are the only type of pistol rounds used by DHS for practice.
Well everywhere I’m hearing how ammo is getting increasingly difficult to find so it could be to partially deplete the ammo supply available as well.
All of the above.
Pretty much what happened during the Detroit riots.
That thought is occurring to a lot of real patriots lately. I’m guessing they are probably in lockdown in underground bunkers somewhere probably guarded by the military or HS. Hopefully they are manned by soldiers that are real patriots. With the right persuasion they might turn their heads and allow the stockpile to be “relocated” systematically over time...: )
You’re closer to the truth than you know. The point of the government buying all this ammo isn’t that they need it for some sort of uprising. It is that it is helping drive up the cost of ammo and making it less available for most of us.
I'll just say this. We were hesitant NOT.
And I am too old to bother with the pleasantries.
BTW, I didn't once consider naming him an assclown in my reply, it seemed beyond the pail for such a stupid carbon unit.
Just sayin.
BTTT
Debating the “Sarah is the best American since George Washington crowd” combined with the “Black Helicopter Crowd” would be an exercise in futility.
If you read some of my other posts you would see that it don’t trust the government. However I’m not inclined to indulge in hysteria over what is essentially a non issue.
Hollow points are used for training that is a fact. DHS has always used hollow points for practice. Hollow points were used for practice by the legacy agencies before DHS was created . I know that doesn’t jive with your CIVIL War II fantasies but it is the fact nonetheless.
Understood. My point was that a lot of "non-issues" have come back to bite i=us over the decades and when it comes to the Left, I put nothing past them - the more reasonable their arguments sound, the more wary I get. God Bless for your service - I'm part of that same oxymoron that has the words "government" and "intelligence" in the same sentence. Is your current patrol area/mission as heavily influenced by the politics of the day as many others appear to be?
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