Ok, here’s a wacky, out there thought:
Government agencies with armed agents have been buying ammo for years and years, but people just noticed that they are doing so.
True that, but I would not have been concerned if the Reagan administration departments had done this, or the Bush (either), but this bunch of radical, hippie throwbacks, makes me nervous. Nixon, if I'd been old enough to care, may have been concerning.
Stop making sense.
Way more fun to pitch a fit about black helicopters and all that.
This is a way to stir people up, in Alinsky terms, to “penetrate their apathy”.
This topic has the advantage of links to the actual document, so it really can’t be debunked by Snopes-like debunkers. The National Weather Service actually is buying ammo, and here is the document to prove it.
You and I and many others know that cops buy ammo, but I am using this topic to expand and cement my email tree. I’ll send out the links with a “hey look at this any comments” type note, then pay attention to who responds and what the response is.
I include a rational explanation like yours, so I’m not trying to merely frighten people.
So far I have over 70 new nodes in my email political network. A useful thing to have in an election year!
That is what I thought until I did the math. DHS has had two procurements this year, one for 450 million and another for 750 million rounds. That is a total of 1.2 billion rounds. At the height of the Iraq war our military was averaging 5.5 million rounds per month (.50 cal and smaller). That was not sustained for years, just at the peak of the war. If the DHS were to sustain that rate of fire it would take 218 months do deplete their supplies. (or a little over 18 years). It makes me think that at a minimum the government is going to create a shortage of ammo and in the process increase the cost of ammo. It is also a complete waste of taxpayer dollars. The worse case scenario for this is much worse ... Obama is building an army.