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Fox: Feds are buying-up ammo to starve civilian gun owners
Fox News Channel (no link!) | 4/29/13

Posted on 04/29/2013 10:45:00 AM PDT by pabianice

Per Megan Kelly. Group of lawmakers charging this. Details pending.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: ammo; banglist; bloodoftyrants; dhsammo; govtabuse; guncontrol; rkba; secondamendment; tyranny; vanity; youwillnotdisarmus
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To: Vendome

I agree, there are wholesalers and others buying up everything they can get there hands on and this cuts the items that the Feds have no use for in thier buying spree.

The factors combine for the effect we have now in the retail market.

I can’t imagine that the feds are buying all the rimfire but I can imagine that 9mm and Nato rounds are being purchased in stupid quantaties.


41 posted on 04/29/2013 12:58:38 PM PDT by KC Burke (Plain Conservative opinions and common sense correction for thirteen years)
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42 posted on 04/29/2013 12:59:45 PM PDT by musicman (Until I see the REAL Long Form Vault BC, he's just "PRES__ENT" Obama = Without "ID")
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To: pabianice

Ok...

http://dailycaller.com/2013/04/25/ammo-maker-ammo-shortage-fueled-by-rumors-and-conjecture/

Hhmmm...


43 posted on 04/29/2013 1:15:44 PM PDT by Dead Corpse (I will not comply.)
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To: pabianice

Obama himself said that he would use whatever means necessary to control guns in the US. DHS buying up vast supplies of ammunition is just the start. The next shoe to drop will be the EPA cracking down on lead bullets and gun powder.


44 posted on 04/29/2013 1:34:22 PM PDT by The Great RJ
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To: andy58-in-nh
Here's one of 'em; no idea where it is:

Articles:

http://www.humanevents.com/2013/02/16/homeland-security-now-armed-with-enough-ammo-for-24-year-long-iraq-war/

and

http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2013/01/obama-administration-repositioning-homeland-security-ammunition-containers/

45 posted on 04/29/2013 1:45:09 PM PDT by Carriage Hill (AR-10s & AR-15s are the Muskets of the 21st Century. Free men need not ask permission.)
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To: pabianice

Last I heard, the feds were buying ammo in calibers that are not really used by LEO. .30 carbine, 30-30, .45LC, .22LR, 30-06. Strange...


46 posted on 04/29/2013 2:56:20 PM PDT by Sergio (An object at rest cannot be stopped! - The Evil Midnight Bomber What Bombs at Midnight)
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To: The KG9 Kid
Yep you are right about that. I saw this coming. Don’t ask me how it was just a feeling. Sometimes I am prescient about about certain things and as I get older and hopefully wiser I learn to act on my “feelings”. Call it a disturbance in the force. LOL.
47 posted on 04/29/2013 3:22:12 PM PDT by Polynikes (Yo Homie. That my briefcase?)
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To: pabianice

if so, where did they obtain the budget authorization?


48 posted on 04/29/2013 3:31:36 PM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: arthurus
This run on guns and ammo is not letting up like the ‘94 run did.

That's because Clinton understood what Obastard doesn't: You have to tack into the wind once in a while. Obastard is just keeping the rudder pushed to the left, no matter what, and he is oblivious. If this keeps up, it *will* lead to a war. And the Gubmint side of the equation is going to need every round they can get, because the numbers aren't on their side.

49 posted on 04/29/2013 3:44:12 PM PDT by Cyber Liberty (I am a dissident. Will you join me? My name is John....)
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To: pabianice

50 posted on 04/29/2013 3:46:06 PM PDT by Red in Blue PA (When Injustice becomes Law, Resistance Becomes Duty.-Thomas Jefferson)
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To: pabianice
Regardless of what happens in the movies, the first thing that happens when SHTF is the "liberation" of firearms and ammunition.

I'm not really worried about it, except I have curtailed my target practice unless I can reload.

51 posted on 04/29/2013 3:58:07 PM PDT by elkfersupper ( Member of the Original Defiant Class)
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To: pabianice

I know a guy that owns the sole liquor store in a small village which is popular vacation destination seasonally. He buys liquor in $250k shipments. If I had a gun store, I think I’d do the same -what would it be worth to have that kind of stock, if for no other reason than to get people in the door for potential impulse buys.


52 posted on 04/29/2013 4:20:24 PM PDT by Fitzy_888 ("ownership society")
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To: pabianice
Fox: Feds are buying-up ammo to starve civilian gun owners

Oh?

Is there a limited supply; or will the ammo companies just keep making as much as they can sell?

Starving only works if there is a limit.

Unless the GOV'T passes a law that says IT gets first dibs on it all, then we civilians WILL get all the ammo WE want; too!

53 posted on 04/29/2013 4:20:33 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: pabianice

Congress simply needs to declare it all surplus and sell it to the public in 1000 round blocks.


54 posted on 04/29/2013 4:48:35 PM PDT by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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To: The KG9 Kid

Sit on what ammo you have. You already know how to shoot.

You’ll miss the fun of shooting, of course, but you’ll also have your rounds. Then just add to it as you can.


55 posted on 04/29/2013 5:30:22 PM PDT by xzins (Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It! True supporters of our troops pray for their victory!)
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To: Piranha
there's always a reason behind this stuff....

I wonder how the gangbangers are going to get along with ammo?.....where do they get their ammo?

56 posted on 04/29/2013 7:39:50 PM PDT by cherry
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To: The Cajun
I haven't went to the range in nearly 2 months myself.

Just went today, for the first time since last fall prior to deer hunting. Of course, we finally had a beautiful, warm, sunny weekend as well as today (Monday) for the first time in the last 9 weeks.

57 posted on 04/29/2013 8:57:56 PM PDT by rcrngroup
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To: rcrngroup
My buddies and I haven't been shooting much.
Kind of waiting for this crap to settle out.
We were going once or sometimes twice a month, just for practice, fun and bragging rights about our marksmanship, LOL.
Good fun, but the ammo situation is just too crazy right now, it's a shame.
58 posted on 04/29/2013 9:12:31 PM PDT by The Cajun (Sarah Palin, Mark Levin......Nuff said.)
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To: Sergio
Last I heard, the feds were buying ammo in calibers that are not really used by LEO. .30 carbine, 30-30, .45LC, .22LR, 30-06. Strange...

How useful are those calibers for summary executions? That may be one reason...
59 posted on 04/29/2013 11:29:26 PM PDT by Wanderer99
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To: longtermmemmory
where did they obtain the budget authorization?

Budget?

60 posted on 04/30/2013 12:54:34 AM PDT by itsahoot (It is not so much that history repeats, but that human nature does not change.)
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