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TSA Purchases 1,980 Sticks of Dynamite to Go With Their 3.5 Million Rounds of Ammo
The Gateway Pundit ^ | 3/9/14 | Jim Hoft

Posted on 03/09/2014 12:52:13 AM PST by Nachum

According to one estimate, since 2012 the Department of Homeland Security has stockpiled more than 1.6 billion bullets, mainly .40 caliber and 9mm. DHS also reportedly purchased 2,700 Mine Resistant Armor Protected Vehicles (MRAPs) to go with their bullet stockpile.

ATK is one company that won a contract with the Department of Homeland Security to provide 450 million rounds of .40 caliber ammunition in 2012.

TSA, an agency within the DHS, purchased 3.5 million rounds of .357 SIG caliber training ammunition in September.

Recently TSA purchased 1,386 pounds of dynamite to go with their ammo. The Activist Post reported:

Put this in the “What in the hell are they thinking?” category, but the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) protectors of the friendly skies, the Transportation Safety Administration (TSA) has submitted another request for high explosives via the Federal Business Online website today, and has issued a Limited Source Justification for three businesses to provide the material: Hallowell Manufacturing LLC, Omni Explosives Inc, and Tripwire Operations Group.

(Excerpt) Read more at thegatewaypundit.com ...


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: dynamite; purchases; tsa; tyranny
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1 posted on 03/09/2014 12:52:13 AM PST by Nachum
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To: Nachum

Evidently preparing for war.


2 posted on 03/09/2014 1:00:28 AM PST by Jack Hammer
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To: Nachum
TSA, an agency within the DHS, purchased 3.5 million rounds of .357 SIG caliber training ammunition in September.

Recently TSA purchased 1,386 pounds of dynamite to go with their ammo.

Just what we needed -- 1,386 more reasons NOT to climb aboard a US flight.

3 posted on 03/09/2014 1:04:30 AM PST by meadsjn
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To: Nachum; null and void; Slings and Arrows

Why would the TSA, who focuses on groping women and children boarding planes and some buses, need dynamite?


4 posted on 03/09/2014 1:11:32 AM PST by Darksheare (Try my coffee, first one's free..... Even robots will kill for it!)
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To: Jack Hammer
Evidently preparing for war.

Either that, or just preparing to blow up Tea Party and conservative's homes, or preparing for a major gun grab.

5 posted on 03/09/2014 1:15:11 AM PST by Mark17 (Chicago Blackhawks: Stanley Cup champions 2010, 2013. Vietnam Vet 70-71 Msgt US Air Force, retired)
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To: Darksheare

_____Why would the TSA, who focuses on groping women and children boarding planes and some buses, need dynamite?-——

A false flag type operation....?


6 posted on 03/09/2014 1:22:02 AM PST by Popman ("Resistance to Tyrants is Obedience to God" - Thomas Jefferson)
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To: Popman

Can’t find explosives on white Christian males that the left is soooo certain must be there that they’ll plant some?
Possible.
And doubly possible a ff operation.


7 posted on 03/09/2014 1:29:17 AM PST by Darksheare (Try my coffee, first one's free..... Even robots will kill for it!)
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To: Nachum

That’s certainly interesting, what are the possible uses the TSA could have for that product and that quantity? I could see small quantities as useful for training search dogs, calibrating electronic sensors designed to detect such things, or perhaps for EOD work.

Unless I’m mistaken, I don’t work in the industry and don’t handle things likely to turn me into pink mist, but I’m under the impression that most construction work done in modern America doesn’t use the old style dynamite products, and only really uses them as boosters to get cheaper and more stable earth-moving and rock shattering explosives to reliably detonate. If I saw a private construction company purchasing that I’d read it as likely 2,000 booster charges for a hell of a lot more than 1,300 pounds of actual explosives.


8 posted on 03/09/2014 1:33:19 AM PST by jameslalor
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To: Darksheare; MeekOneGOP; Conspiracy Guy; DocRock; King Prout; OSHA; martin_fierro; NYC GOP Chick; ...
Gate-gropers plus dynamite - what could possibly go wrong?


9 posted on 03/09/2014 1:44:35 AM PST by Slings and Arrows (Richard Warman censors free speech.)
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To: Nachum

The dynamite is for their self destruction. With the incompetence I have seen so far, I fully expect it will earn them several Darwin Awards!!


10 posted on 03/09/2014 3:04:06 AM PDT by tired&retired
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To: Nachum
I think they're getting rready for the whole system crashing on its butt.

Let's all not forget the 600 million (If memory serves) MRE's they bought a year or so ago. Well survival foods. I remember that some manufacturers had to halt sales to all other parties to meet the order from the DHS.

11 posted on 03/09/2014 3:10:47 AM PDT by HeartlandOfAmerica (GOP = Gathering of Pussies!)
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To: jameslalor

These entities are all part of the same federal monster. The TSA has room in its budget for more weapon buying. It will share all tools with its (federal) self when needed.


12 posted on 03/09/2014 3:29:25 AM PDT by ArtDodger
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To: Nachum
Perhaps the TSA homepage can explain the "why"s ..



Perhaps not

13 posted on 03/09/2014 3:32:58 AM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true .. I have no proof .. but they're true.)
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To: Darksheare

Remember they hire mostly felons.


14 posted on 03/09/2014 3:37:29 AM PDT by exnavy (Fish or cut bait ...Got ammo, Godspeed!)
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To: Slings and Arrows

“Contact false positive” and “area aerosol false positive” for starters.
Kaboom eventually, but of what?


15 posted on 03/09/2014 3:52:59 AM PDT by Darksheare (Try my coffee, first one's free..... Even robots will kill for it!)
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To: exnavy

Yeah.
And Muslims too.


16 posted on 03/09/2014 3:53:38 AM PDT by Darksheare (Try my coffee, first one's free..... Even robots will kill for it!)
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To: Darksheare

> Kaboom eventually, but of what?

Given their demonstrated competence I can hazard a guess.


17 posted on 03/09/2014 3:54:40 AM PDT by Slings and Arrows (Richard Warman censors free speech.)
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To: Slings and Arrows

Hey Rah’kmallad!
Watch this*Booom*


18 posted on 03/09/2014 3:56:06 AM PDT by Darksheare (Try my coffee, first one's free..... Even robots will kill for it!)
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To: Slings and Arrows; Kartographer
TSA Purchases 1,980 Sticks of Dynamite to Go With Their 3.5 Million Rounds of Ammo

Will they be blowing up bridges so people can't bug-out if/when they declare Martial Law?

19 posted on 03/09/2014 4:01:13 AM PDT by LucyT (If you're NOT paranoid, you don't know what's going on.)
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To: Nachum

357 Sig is so hot it will exit the brick wall from the building it which it is fired and penetrate the brick wall into the adjacent building.

Probably they need this hot ammo to shoot the people who do not show their papers fast enough, get their liquids out fast enough, or take shoes off fast enough, or get computer out fast enough, metals off, jacket off, into the X-ray and back scatter death inspection, or for Americans who submit too slowly to the gonad crotch grope. Obviously these balking tea partying American travelers need to be immediately shot with the hottest pistol load possible and the the dynamite can be used to blow them to smithereens for good measure.

What dip shit moron is wasting taxpayer money on such ordinance?


20 posted on 03/09/2014 4:05:31 AM PDT by FlyingEagle
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