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We all know damned well why they are doing it
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Can the GAO actually DO anything about these purchases? For example, sell the excess inventory on the general market?
DHS has some contingency plan or supporting memos that justify the amount of ammo it has warehoused. It is only a matter of time before someone leaks enough so we can get a glimpse into this expensive and possibly dangerous stockpile.
Given budget realities, when the justification no longer can stand political scrutiny, since this is stockpile is so way beyond its rational needs, it will be forced to disgorge at least some of it. Any quantity of surplus sale will have an effect on market prices. However, this eventuality is at least one presidential election away.
More folks ought to read about Chaffetz. He’s a rising star who made the transformation from Liberal to Conservative by using his mind. Here’s hoping he smokes out the ammo stockpile nonsense.
Starting to wonder if that 116 million was really used, lots of other possibilities other than it was really used.
Where's the spent brass, where's the documentation that it was used?
Surely agents had to sign out for it.
>> roughly 70,000 agents
The hundreds of millions of rounds is only the tip of the iceberg.
THat we pay seventy thousand agents to belong to an unconstitutional federal police force/paramilitary unit — THAT is the REAL problem.
Consider that these US SS forces — all seventy THOUSAND of them — couldn’t stop two Chechen rebels from killing and maiming hundreds.
Yet apparently they have time to put more than a thousand rounds downrange APIECE — as well as write up internal training materials painting law-abiding Christians as the enemy.
THIS is an OUTRAGE.
And just think.
WE get to pay for it! Every single round!
Isn’t that special?
As by all accountable records and historical accounts, the last year that any federal agency, civilian or military, had any revolvers on inventory, was 1991. 1992, all agencies transitioned to the Beretta M9, and retired all .38 Special caliber firearms.
WHAT THE HECK IS THE REASON THAT DHS HAS BEEN BUYING A WHOLE LOT OF AMMUNITION, FOR A FIREARM THAT HAS NOT BEEN IN ANY ACTIVE GOVERNMENT INVENTORY, SINCE 1992????????????????
WHICH BRINGS A SECOND QUESTION ... SINCE IT IS THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION THAT HAS STOPPED ALL SALES OF FIRED AMMUNITION CASES, WHY ARE ALL THE COMMERCIAL REMANUFACTURING HOUSES STATING THAT THEY ARE EXPERIENCING MAJOR LOT ORDERS??? FROM WHOM??!?!?
Just a crazy theory...
1. Put huge demand on ammunition manufacturers
2. Companies expand facilities to meet demand
3. Government stops buying, relying on stockpiles instead
4. Lower revenue no longer covers the new operating expenses
5. Government offers bailout but only ammo companies agree to gun/ammo sale restrictions
I still want to know who they plan on shooting. This is NOT just about cutting off supply.
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