re fisheries
So there are 63 fisheries law enforcement officers. “These agents perform traditional law enforcement duties over more than 3 million square miles of open ocean and 85,000 miles of coastline from criminal fishing operations” So how many rounds per mile of coastline is that? Citing miles seems to be an attempt to justify the astonishing number of bullets but there’s only 63 officers. Could we see how many rounds those officers fired last year? Or on average over the past 5 years? It’s not like they routinely take ships in running gun battles - those officers may carry a gun (and need them at sea) but just how many rounds do they use? Overall, the numbers don’t add up.
40,000 rounds for 63 officers is about 630 rounds each. To many Freepers that is “a start”. To the media that is an “arsenal”.
But - it does point to the vastness that is the Federal Government. To paraphrase: “40,000 here and 40,000 there, pretty soon you’re talking big numbers”.
My late husband when he was serving in Korea used to practice a lot with his pistol and the free ammunition. When we visited his family home in the middle west a decade later he killed 10 rabbits each with a 22 shot in the head. We froze them and took them back east and had hassenfeffer (sp?) for a week. Later who took me to a range to teach me to shot a pistol. He did a pattern on the bulls eye no bigger than a revolver chamber with 5 bullets around the edge and one in the middle. I was impressed. Who knows how much these guys practice and train?