Winchester to Deliver 200 Million 40-Cal. Rounds to Homeland Security

Gun Reports ^ | 12/14/2009 | Gun Reports

[The Magical Mischief Tour]

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Winchester Ammunition was recently awarded a contract by the Immigration, Customs and Enforcement (ICE) division of the Department of Homeland Security to supply a maximum of 200 million, 40 cal. rounds over the next five years.

The load selected for this contract is a 135-grain, hollow point designed for the office of Field Operations of Customs and Border Protection. It will fall under the Winchester Ranger line.

[your local physicist]

It wouldn’t surprise me if the Winchester plant where this ammo will be manufactured is in some democrat congressman’s district who could be in a tough race next year.

[Jagman]

One for every conservative.

[BobbyT]

Jacketed hollow points are what you use to shoot people or animals with.

Full metal jacket rounds are practice rounds: cheaper because they’re easier to make. Of course, when you’re shooting on the gov’t dime, you can practice with full defense loadings.

Our troops get the shaft and have to use FMJ because of the 1886 Hague Convention’s obscure wording designed to make sure no scary future exploding rounds would be developed. I don’t know why the higher ups don’t just announce that the FMJ standard is BS and switch us to JHPs.

[edcoil]

Way our cops aim, they need it. Remember out here a few years back - 13 cops fired over 100 rounds and missed the guy... killed the van he was in but missed him.

[RJL]

Winchester Ammunition was recently awarded a contract by the Immigration, Customs and Enforcement (ICE) division of the Department of Homeland Security to supply a maximum of 200 million, 40 cal. rounds

The total population of the US is about 307 million people.

Firmly tightening the tin foil hat, what big plans does ICE and DHS have for the coming years?

[BobbyT]

Whoops, 1899.

[piytar]

Or for my 9mm Hornady Critical Defense rounds. Or my (legal, sorry BATF lurkers) 223 hollow points and FMJs...

[pietraynor]

Maybe they will be issued to the guards at the FEMA internment camps for conservatives.

[driftdiver]

Probably 1/3 of those employees don’t carry a gun.

[driftdiver]

To keep the factories busy and unable to sell ammo to you and me.

[driftdiver]

HPs don’t work as well for vehicles. They expand on hitting the metal or glass and lose a lot of their energy.

[Cobra64]

Very odd that you post would be zotted considering a five star general and President of the United States implemented "Operation Wetback" in 1954.

"Operation Wetback"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Wetback

[BuffaloJack]

I’m thinking that this is destined for Obama’s Civilian Defense Force. he’s using Homeland Security to temporarily hold the stuff until he can wage war against those who voted against him.

[I cannot think of a name]

They can have it.

I'll probably get flamed but I see no reason for the .40. If you want a good sized flying ashtray bullet, carry a .45. If you want small and concealable, carry a 9mm with decent rounds. But why take a wonderful cartridge (10mm) and neuter it because some government agents had trouble with the recoil?

At least they've chosen the 135 grain, which makes a lot more sense then the 150 to 165’s they were carrying. It's still an in-between cartridge that I just don't see a need for.

[George from New England]

Take the money out of your wallet in higher taxes. The money that you’d use to buy yourself ammo but you don’t have it anymore.

You are paying to arm them to come after you someday.

[Moe Tzadik]

I wonder how many of those rounds will end up piercing the bodies of anti-0bama protesters at some future time.

"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 [with lotsa ammo]."

[edcoil]

When you have circled a van and at a range of 10 feet a HP should do both.

[tanknetter]

And how recent is "recent"?

The Federal Government goes on a massive spending spree every late August through September as "end of year" money needs to be spent. Not spending money results in that money not only being returned to the treasury, but subsequent years' budgets reduced (OMB, etc, look at any surplus and project subsequent budgets down ... since an agency with a surplus just has too much money to begin with).

There are all sorts of stories about obscene quantities of "stuff" that gets purchased with EOY dollars. The one that really stands out to me is how DoD, in the late 1970s, bought something like 150 YEARS worth of mainframe punchcards in order to completely spend their budget.

[tanknetter]

Duh, the article is from late August. Definitely an EOY buy, nothing sinister involved, unless you consider abuse of taxpayer $$$ to be sinister ...

[Mom MD]

They could send any extras my way!