Posted on 03/04/2013 6:00:13 AM PST by Liz
This is getting a little creepy. According to one estimate, since last year the Department of Homeland Security has stockpiled more than 1.6 billion bullets, mainly .40 caliber and 9mm. DHS also purchased 2,700 Mine Resistant Armor Protected Vehicles (MRAP). (30-35,0000 drones are on order--being built in Starkville, Miss.)
Modern Survival Blog reported: The Department of Homeland Security (through the U.S. Army Forces Command) recently retrofitted 2,717 of these ‘Mine Resistant Protected’ vehicles for service on the streets of the United States.
Although I’ve seen and read several online blurbs about this vehicle of late, I decided to dig slightly deeper and discover more about the vehicle itself.
The new DHS sanctioned ‘Street Sweeper’ (my own slang due to the gun ports) is built by Navistar Defense (NavistarDefense.com), a division within the Navistar organization. Under the Navistar umbrella are several other companies including International Trucks, IC Bus (they make school buses), Monaco RV (recreational vehicles), WorkHorse (they make chassis), MaxxForce (diesel engines), and Navistar Financial (the money arm of the company).
DHS even released a video on their newly purchased MRAPs. LINK AT WEB SITE ---Via Pat Dollard:
The MRAP featured in the video was in Albuquerque, New Mexico for Law Enforcement Day which was held at a local area Target Store. This MRAP is stationed in El Paso, Texas at The Homeland Security Investigations Office. MRAP is a Mine Resistant Armor Protected Vehicle.
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2013/03/obama-dhs-purchases-2700-light-armored-tanks-to-go-with-their-1-6-billion-bullet-stockpile/
Ping
I'm going to respectfully decline to reveal that part of the plan - at this time. But for background, it helps to have an understanding of how facial recognition software works, and to have professionally studied counter-insurgency and counter-IED tactics. If you know what they're going to do, and how...
If they can call an AR-15 an “assault rifle” for emotional effect,
we damn sure can call these things “tanks”.
Nothing a citizen can legally posess can penetrate the armor, so it might as well be a “tank”.
This is W’s fault
No matter what they're labeled.
Moochie is being groomed to be the RAT Candidate in 2016. She is going to be getting more and more media face time. Put money on it.
for their own maybe, but they will burn ours...
Is the Barrett in 50bmg off limits to citizens without class 3?
Or backhoes.
I feel like we’re in the “game of questions”...
Will the BMG penetrate these things?
roger that...
BUMP
the war has already begun
has anyone in Congress/GOP even brought this up as an issue??
Face it, she's not a very likeable person....no matter how she grooms and adorns herself.
When she makes w/ that toothy grin and snarl---it's over for her.
Frankly, I think the bangs were a huge mistake.
The National and global lefties/fascists know it won’t be easy to bring America under it’s boot. We also have a government and intellectual instistutions under the influence of the Muslim Brotherhood/Saudi Islamists. It’s no accident Homeland InSecurity has named Christians, constitutionalists and vets as the US gov’s terrorist enemy.
Our government is under the control of an ideology and value system that has a long trail of injustice, hate, death and poverty. They wanna “rule.” They also wanna kill.
How many body bags did the Nazis have in Auschwitz?
The government is a hammer, and we are the nail.
“..please enlighten me on how easy it has been to explain away the 1.6 billion rounds.”
Those that have explained away the ammo, and there are several here on Free Republic, have said that the ammo was for training purposes. Also, that the rounds were to be purchased over several years. Also, I saw this just a couple of days ago, that they made the purchase all at the same time to “lock in” the price at current levels.
I want to see ‘em explain away this.
Good thing Navistar makes other vehicles to easily take out these so called “armored transports,”
It’s called a standard tractor trailer!
These fools thatbthink they can ever take on the general population and win, have lost their minds.
Those things will quickly become rolling caskets if not outright commandeered by locals.
Stupid government. You think they would at least give the contract to build the tanks to GM. After all, we own the company..
“We cannot continue to rely on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives 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.”
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