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Police Departments Beg And Barter For Ammo While DHS Buys Up 1.6 Billion Rounds In Past Year
CNSNews.com ^ | 03/22/2013 | Gregory Gwyn-Williams, Jr.

Posted on 03/22/2013 9:24:47 AM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway

The nationwide shortage of ammunition has left many police departments scrambling to get their hands on the necessary rounds - with some even bartering among each other.

Meanwhile, Rep. Timothy Huelskamp (R-Kansas) says the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has failed to respond to multiple members of Congress asking why DHS bought more than 1.6 billion rounds in the past year.

Police Chief Cameron Arthur of Jenks, Oklahoma says, "Ammunition and assault weapons in general have skyrocketed...In addition to the fact, not only is it a lot more expensive, but the time to get it could be six months to a year, or in some cases even longer."


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To: AngelesCrestHighway
I called Coburns office....and the guy I talked to said..Coburn was fine with it.

I then proceeded to tell him...what about the hollow points? He said that was a good question.

I then asked him about the 2700 armored vehicles...and he said...he'd not heard of that.

81 posted on 03/22/2013 10:47:00 AM PDT by Osage Orange (Life is a bitch. If it was easy, we would call it a slut)
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To: EricT.

They’ve got a nasty surprise coming if they try...

These liberal psycho’s are pushing it way to far...Wake up America!!!


82 posted on 03/22/2013 10:51:41 AM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: Osage Orange

They don’t want the local police to have ammuntion either because they don’t trust them. When will Obama’s army roll?


83 posted on 03/22/2013 11:03:33 AM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: AngelesCrestHighway

DHS, the Department of Homeland Security, is supposed to keep us, the folks, safe, right? Wrong! They will be tasked with protecting the REGIME from US!


84 posted on 03/22/2013 11:11:49 AM PDT by JimRed (Excise the cancer before it kills us; feed &water the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS, NOW & FOREVER!)
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To: AngelesCrestHighway

Anyone remember this, Obama saying we need a ‘civilian security force”?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tt2yGzHfy7s


85 posted on 03/22/2013 11:17:44 AM PDT by patriotsblood
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To: JimRed

Are they so scared of us that they must create their own army to control us? More proof that liberalism is a mental desease. They are done trying to convert the Americans who will not follow. They know we never will.


86 posted on 03/22/2013 11:17:46 AM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: Red Badger

Maybe it’s time to give them what they have been asking for...


87 posted on 03/22/2013 11:19:34 AM PDT by patriotsblood
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To: dangerdoc

He did manage to get his hands on some pretty big sheets of lead that someone salvaged out of a building they tore down on post. That and the 5 gal. bucket of wheel weights should keep us going into the next century.


88 posted on 03/22/2013 11:25:25 AM PDT by AZHSer
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To: EricT.
Guess who still lives in the same country as the rest of us, and whose home address can be discovered without much trouble?

Those who will be GIVING THE ORDERS to confiscate our weapons, that's who! Get that information NOW, before the public records can be scrubbed. They will be the first taken out if we are smart.

89 posted on 03/22/2013 11:42:58 AM PDT by JimRed (Excise the cancer before it kills us; feed &water the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS, NOW & FOREVER!)
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To: AngelesCrestHighway
This is the f’ing Twilight Zone!...Gee! I wonder if the lame stream media will report this?

I hope not. It's hard enough getting ammo as it is. Just imagine what it would be like if you racheted up demand even more by having the lamestream report it to the sheeple.

I stood in line for an hour this morning and couldn't get anything but some .22s for plinking. They sold out of 9mm about 6 people ahead of me.

90 posted on 03/22/2013 11:45:17 AM PDT by zeugma (Those of us who work for a living are outnumbered by those who vote for a living.)
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To: JimRed

***** “DHS, the Department of Homeland Security, is supposed to keep us, the folks, safe, right? Wrong! They will be tasked with protecting the REGIME from US!” *****

Exactly

Bump and Repeat as necessary

TT


91 posted on 03/22/2013 12:03:24 PM PDT by TexasTransplant (Idiocracy used to just be a Movie... Live every day as your last...one day you will be right)
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To: dangerdoc

Find a friend that works in radiology at a Hospital.
Sheets of Pure lead!


92 posted on 03/22/2013 12:23:34 PM PDT by VRWCarea51
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To: AngelesCrestHighway

Getting ready for a major change!


93 posted on 03/22/2013 12:38:31 PM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)
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To: AngelesCrestHighway

Well, if DHS bought the equivalent numbers of brass, primers, and powder, and have the reloading machines to produce ammunition, then they’ll. have something useful that be fired from a gun.


94 posted on 03/22/2013 12:42:40 PM PDT by Cobra64 (Common sense isn't common anymore.)
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To: Brooklyn Attitude

My firstthought.

I don’t see why this is a problem for PDs....they seldom practice/maybe twice a year.

I say, let them buy their own ammo.


95 posted on 03/22/2013 1:17:04 PM PDT by Daffynition (The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. — D.H.)
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To: AngelesCrestHighway
I'm watching and waiting.

I'm curious, interested..and as always looking at worst case scenarios.

I'm not sure whats going to happen...

I don't think anyone here does..........

96 posted on 03/22/2013 1:36:00 PM PDT by Osage Orange (Life is a bitch. If it was easy, we would call it a slut)
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To: AngelesCrestHighway

Yes. .40, 45, 9mm, .223, 7.62, etc are out at most retail places. You can find some very expensive hallow point stuff and 7mm and other hunting only rounds. The retailers that have are selling it for nearly double what it was.


97 posted on 03/22/2013 1:48:47 PM PDT by demshateGod (The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.)
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To: Daffynition

“I say, let them buy their own ammo.”

Anyone suggesting that union members pay for anything they are used to getting for free is likely to be pulled over and beaten on the way home. Better drive safely.


98 posted on 03/22/2013 1:53:29 PM PDT by Brooklyn Attitude (Obama being re-elected is the political equivalent of OJ being found not guilty.)
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To: AngelesCrestHighway; All

Given that Congress has the power of the purse, Obama shouldn’t have the funding to be able to equip his own private army imo. So Congress should be impeached as well as Obama concerning this issue.


99 posted on 03/22/2013 1:54:45 PM PDT by Amendment10
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To: lgjhn23

Sorta like how Holder when to jail for refusing a subpoena?


100 posted on 03/22/2013 1:58:36 PM PDT by demshateGod (The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.)
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