Of the virtually ALL federal agencies that have added or enhanced their "enforcement" sections, is now NOAA.
In the vendor offering, the delivery address (note: inside delivery specified... no kidding for 8,000 rounds)is broken down as follows in the Department of Commerce: DOC (Dept. of Commerce), NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration), NMFS (National Marine Fisheries Service), OLE (office of law enforcement), NED (National Enforcement Division).
So, who is OLE for NOAA/Dept of Commerce? From their website: "Formed in 1970, NOAA's Office of Law Enforcement has special agents and enforcement officers working out of six divisional offices and 53 field offices throughout the United States and U.S. territories. Headquarters are in Silver Spring, Md.
The primary geographic jurisdiction of NOAA's Office of Law Enforcement is the waters within the U.S. Exclusive Economic Zone, which covers ocean waters between 3 and 200 miles off shore and adjacent to all U.S. states and territories. Jurisdiction extends to protected marine species and national marine sanctuaries, however, regardless of their location within the United States."
For a real laugher find the OLE page Here: http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/ole/index.html
Look up, in the various divisions, the police blotter of cases--- right down to the small commercial fishermen, and EVEN enforcing international fish (for uh good relations with other nations). Recall the Gibson Guitar company raid to enforce the Lacey Act? THAT was the US Fish and Wildlife Agency (enforcement division).
Every federal agency is "strapping" up for something-- one wonders... what and against whom in our Republic?
The picture here is one of police, literally everywhere and "partnering" various other "units". For conservatives, who generally support the law enforcement community as limited by our Constitution, this is pretty disturbing.
Cornering the market. Driving up prices. Maybe the guv’ment has an equity position in the bullet manufacturing business.
freaked me until I researched it.
I know thinking of a rational reason isn’t usually welcome, but they do have security at their facilities under the NOAAOLE umbrella and 16K rounds isn’t that much.
http://www.osec.doc.gov/osy/noaa/noaa_security.htm
Well First they came after the Cimate Change Deniers, but I wasn;t a climate change denier...
Then they came after people who drove SUVs, but I didn’t own a SUV
Then they came after people who didn’t have a smart meter installed, and I had a smart meter installed....
Eventually several years later when I was living in my mud hut they shot me for daring to cook my food by burning some firewood.....
“All service furnished ammunition for issued firearms will be U.S. factory production.”
At least the bullets that will be used by Obama to quash descent will be Made in the USA!
I feel better than when I thought there might be armed hoards of weather forecasters out there...
so....the next time we are attacked by The Weathermen they are going to be ACTUAL Weathermen?
I hear that the hollow point .40 caliber is good for taking out dolphins and baby seals with one shot...;^)
I read info on this story earlier, and one location (New Jersey) was going to get 6k rounds as well as 500 paper targets. Doing the math, I come up with 12 shots per paper target. Sounds like annual qualifying to me.
When you go to the fbo sites to see the breakouts of bids being solicitied, you will see that, prior to this time- the Social Security Administration and NOAA have never placed an order for ammunitions This is not been part of their yearly budgets. This is something new. And "rationally reasonable" citizens should question why.
You will also see that there's been more contracts opened for ammo and explosives since Jan. 1, 2012, than in the entire preceding decade, COMBINED.
Who's doing the buying? Beside the expected typical Army/Navy/Airforce/Federal police you might expect. But there are these NEW items
The Department of Agriculture. https//:www.fbo.gov/index?s=opportunity&mode=form&id=8bb33b0ca7d8acf88bf764c7b57a7938&tab=core&_cview=0
The Social Security Administration is buying ammo? https://www.fbo.gov/index?s=opportunity&mode=form&id=6c39a2a9f00a10187a1432388a3301e5&tab=core&_cview=0
TSA is buying plastic explosives? RDX explosives (sure that's for training---LOL-- we already have ATF experts who know all about this stuff). https://www.fbo.gov/index?s=opportunity&mode=form&id=841df7511fccae65a083999234e23346&tab=core&_cview=0
More requests for ammo than ever before, and uniquely non enforcement agencies are being armed . Larger quantities than ever before: even as foreign wars wind down and there should be (and is) a surplus of ammunition. For what purpose? Even as our Justice Dept has sent thousands of firearms to Mexico to "prove" US citizens and companies are supplying arms to "terrorists", observationally speaking. And our veterans are categorized by DHS as a category of risk groups for terror!
They are specifying "factory loaded", which is understandable due to the "Kaboom" failures with the .40 cal Glocks (guessing that's what these are for). Reloads are a primary underlying cause.
So the question is... Does it make any sense to do "Minority Set-Aside" type contracts in this situation? Seem's like a buy-re-sell while the Government gets a higher price.
The entire Federal Government bought 1,000,000,000 rounds the last two years.
Looks like the storm chasers are going to be packing.
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.
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.