NOAA is buying thousands of rounds of hollow point .40 JHP ammo.

Federal Biz Opps Web site ^ | August 10, 2012 | General Services Administration

[John S Mosby]

"The DOC NOAA National Weather Service - Western Acquisition Division, Boulder, requires the following items, Purchase Description Determined by Line Item, to the following: LI 001: 16,000 rounds of ammunition for semiautomatic pistols to be factory-loaded .40 S&W caliber, 180-grain jacketed hollow point (JHP). No reloads may be used with these weapons. All service furnished ammunition for issued firearms will be U.S. factory production. Inside Delivery to locations below:

[John S Mosby]

What about 180 grain and that brass?

[libstripper]

Do you have any data on the Beretta 96, which is my semi-auto? I’ve never had any trouble with it feeding anything, including Russian ammo.

[John S Mosby]

Thanks, missed your comment here before my last post about 180. 165.. got it.

[expat2]

It was fictional within the movie, too. Nash was going nuts and hallucinating those scenes.

[familyop]

In the past, men in all levels of leadership in government, business and politics tried to prevent panic. Now, it appears that people in leadership positions of all kinds have been trying to foment panic while using trashy tactics to compete for a declining pile of debt.

Hysteria in leadership. It’s quite a show.

[John S Mosby]

My point exactly on the non budgeted purchases by the One and willing apparatchiks. It is quite a show, and quite disgusting.

And, as regards the security of these deliveries at their address one wonders about the oversight. Maybe too much imagination working but worth asking. Such is the level of distrust of these "polizei". Anyone who has served overseas knows what I mean, especially those who were operators.

[Tallguy]

Thanks Guys! Sometimes I need my fellow Freepers to pick me up & set me straight. This is the government. I shouldn’t be surprised if they’re specifying silver bullets in case they run into a werewolf.

[PowderMonkey]

"And, as regards the security of these deliveries at their address one wonders about the oversight.

"Diverted" shipments happen. I've seen how "irregulars" handle inventory control for this type of stuff. Much of it (if not all) will sprout legs and slip away. Perhaps something for the boys in the hood around November?

[familyop]

Well said and agreed. I do see hyperbolic speech from all sides in politics now, though, along with many institutions of political correctness (examples: chosen candidates leaning effeminate and/or socially pathological, positions against working class family structure, exaggerated concerns about population while flooding our country with foreign cultures, local regulations against small manufacturing shops, environmentalism/NIMBY-isms for “property values,” loyalties toward enriching communist foreign nations and so on).

One solution might be to stop federal funding to state and local governments (to stop feeding the RINOs in local socialism), but that’s not likely to be implemented. All sides bow to Hillary’s multi-level bureaucracy (many federal-to-local funding schemes started during the ‘90s). Nevertheless, we need a conservative political party, but that won’t be formed by politicos who vie for the declining streams of foreign and printed debt.

Will Romney & favored constituent company really cut government spending enough to break the paradigm toward harder socialism? I doubt it. Each community supports its useless bureaucrats and anti-competition regulations and wants to continue the gifts to its neighborhood from Uncle Samantha. Even our applauded service “industry” is mostly dependent on customers with incomes derived mostly from debt (small manufacturing starts and new competition effectively outlawed and virtually missing).

Thus, we see only hysteria in contemporary political speech, because the factions want nonsense (to secure more debt to each faction as opposed to sustainable revenues for, for example, firepersons), strong families manufacturing useful products).

First, politicos campaign with shrieks of hysteria about what their opposition will do to their VIP constituents. Then, when in office, they impose “impact fees,” confiscate cattle from ranchers with false accusations, perpetrate schemes to levitate property taxes by fabricating false residential sales, violate other property rights (imaginings about zombie “property values”) and so on. Nearly all in politics are socialists, and each they run campaigns on their oppositions’ threats to our freedoms (which they all violate).

May their houses rot. Meanwhile, the general population decides against buying anything that it doesn’t need. In reaction, politicians and their favored constituents get ready for the “SHTF” while accusing their victims (what’s left of the private sector and the unemployed) of doing the same. There are only two families in my area rumored to have “tunnels and bunkers” on their properties, and they’re both government employed/pensioned and socially to the left (environmentalists, animal worshipers, LE-linked).

Most common Americans look at current politics (every level and faction) with disgustful fascination while trying to avoid the carnival.

[familyop]

BTW, your post was fine. We’ve also seen a morbid obsession with security in business and politics over the past couple of decades or so. Too expensive, IMO, and not the solution of better business and government.

[Myrddin]

Zero experience with the Beretta 96. My wife tried to feed that lacquered 9mm Wolf ammo to her Sig 225 as fodder for a personal defense class. The lacquer flaked and jammed the Sig 225. I hand loaded 127 gr 9mm for her. It cycled perfectly and dropped the brass at her feet. The Wolf stuff feeds fine in the Ruger PC9 rifle if you want a reliable place to use it.