Posted on 08/26/2012 8:56:49 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Times-Union readers want to know:
Is it true, as an email says, that the Social Security Administration is buying 174,000 rounds of hollow point bullets to prepare for civil unrest?
As strange as it might seem — as in what does the Social Security Administration need with hollow point bullets? — this is mainly true, at least the part about the bullets.
The email talks of a request by the SSA to buy 174,000 rounds of “.357 Sig 125 grain bonded jacketed hollow point pistol ammunition.”
The email gets its info from the website Infowars.com, which published several stories about the request and referred to 41 sites across the country where the bullets would be sent (Jacksonville not among them). The email draws the conclusion that the bullets were for potential civil unrest:
“Social Security welfare is estimated to keep around 40 percent of senior citizens out of poverty. Should the tap run dry in the aftermath of an economic collapse, which the Federal Reserve has already told top banks to prepare for, domestic disorder could ensue if people are refused their benefits.”
The request for the bullets was real, obtained through the Federal Business Opportunities website, which all federal agencies use to post open procurements. You can see the request at tinyurl.com/9shjcvl.
After the Infowars.com stories were picked up by the Drudge Report and other such arenas, the questions caused the SSA to issue a statement that the ammunition would be used by field locations of the Office of Investigations, part of the Office of the Inspector General....
(Excerpt) Read more at jacksonville.com ...
Maybe heading to Chicago?
This is not entirely true.
The bullet weight has a substantial relationship to point of impact and sight adjustment. Essentially, the pistol is recoiling and the muzzle is rising while the bullet is still in the gun. Heavier bullets will shoot to a higher point of impact.
Practice should always be with the same weight bullets as service rounds.
Bullets are to cartridges as four is to bread, as cement is to concrete, ete.
When will they ever learn?
America has the largest per capita of LEOs in the world. But those in the District of Criminals still don’t think it’s enough.
They don’t want to learn. These are the same people who think meat, milk, eggs and butter come from the supermarket.
I could and have in fact shot 600 rounds up in the course of a few hours. it goes fast with high cap magazines. it may be fishy though. IDK.
Your wife not only shoots..but has her own Mosin??
That is badass.
Too bad they can’t do what the rest of us do: Practice with cheaper Full Metal Jacket bullets, and save a small number of hollow points for social occasions, and routine function and rotation shoots to retain confidence in mechanical function.
Of course, since it is just the taxpayer’s money, who cares, right?.
Doesn’t EVERYONE have a Mosin ?? And if not, why not ?? (grin)
EVERYONE should have at least one.
I just posted an fbo request for quarter million rounds from the California USDA Forestry service.
I just posted an fbo request for quarter million rounds from the California USDA Forestry service.
Oh, and it specified they needed them within 30 days.
Aren’t hollow points banned by the Geneva convention?
Oh, but that’s only against our enemies. Against right wing Christian birthers and Obama haters, they are ok.
police use hollow points to assassinate perps with knives and guns in midtown
lots of collateral wounded
guess they don’t know how to tase
Add that to NOAA 46,000 rounds of hollow point. Tell me why NOAA needs hollow points? Is the Dept of Homeland Security bound to a Constitutional oath? We have a major problem, and ammo shortages.
I would say not only weight. In addition to point of impact, there is muzzle blast, recoil, and in particular, possible malfunctions, - all different with different ammo.
My son bought a Mosin and it doesn’t extract the spent bullet. Granted we have only bought one box of ammo and it sometimes would extract but more often would not. Is it a common problem with the Mosin?
It makes it easier for our government agents to tell which end of the bullet to put into the gun first?
Sorry, Yorkie. You've been hornswoggled. Three Supreme Court cases in 1937 found the SS program to be funded by taxes and it is NOT an insurance plan. See The Helvering vs. Davis, Steward Machine Co. vs. Davis, and Carmichael vs. Southern Coal & Coke and Gulf States Paper. You pays your taxes and takes your chances. It has been unethical of the government to portray the program as an old age insurance program, but you can't sue Congress for their lies due to their immunity.
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