Who is funding the DHS? Oh that’s right, THE REPUBLICAN CONGRESS!
And of course, government contracts are fulfilled before manufacturing for the public. Here we go again with high prices and shortages.
More textbook commie paranoia.
Baloney. That would be like the FDA trying to solve obesity by buying up potato chips. It’s a cheap consumable, more will be made.
Well at least people know where to go find some.
DHS, creepy Nazi sounding name, the manpower of the USMC, and twice the budget. Oh,,, and aimed right at the American people.
And protecting us from ebony wood guitar frets that were not finished in India, because there is also ebony wood in Madagascar and it could have come from there. Yeahhhh,,,,,that.
Will they be sending the weapons to ISIS in Mexico,
or just to the cells in the USA?
Looks to me like Homeland Security is planning to go to war.
It’s only mandate is U. S. Citizens and foreign nationals on our soil, and we know damn well they aren’t going after illegals.
This means they are planing to go to war with us.
This agency should be severely restructured immediately.
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It’s like a monthly subscription. Ammo guaranteed to be delivered to your door, even if there’s a shortage.
Which presidential candidate was it that has a bill to get rid of this useless (wasteful, oppressive?) agency?
NEVER FORGET.. It was our government that failed to defend us on 9-11 from illegal immigrants, etc and that has failed to defend our nation from being invaded across our borders.
Yet they (the establishment wanting our jobs in China and Mexicans infiltrating at $5/hr, and Americans volunteering to die in foolish corrupt wars for what, and Wall Street being bailed out) have all encouraged a policy of putting average Americans, including many vets, our firearms, and taxpaying citizens under a microscope of surveillance as though we had something to do with these travesties against our nation. The problem is beyond the left and right.
Maybe it’s actually going to Syria or Ukraine?
What’s everyone upset for? It says right in the fbo doc that its for TRAINING!
That much ammunition can be used with in one year for weapons proficiency within the DHS.
DHS has over 50,000 officers with over 36,000 in the border patrol (2008 census of federal law enforcement officers in USG) and there are more officers on duty today.
So, 12,600,000/50,000 is 252 rounds for use per year for each office, if each officer was required to qualify every year.
weapons training is with carry weapons and the M-16 is common in police vehicles today. There is also the rotation and replacement of duty ammunition and in some cases use replacement.
I think people are seriously over reacting and are eating ground meat and drinking cool-aid.
Calling my congressman Monday about this. Defund them now.
.223 is made for the civilian market.
Check your AR’s barrel. Mine is roll-marked 5.56.
I believe the .223 has a slightly shorter case neck, maybe a little lower pressure but someone who knows can edify, clarify.
I’m more into 7.62.
DHS has the same head count as the USMC and TWICE their headcount.
WHY do we vote for Republicans who then act AGAINST OUR INTEREST...???
if a republican gets into the office he should do a government ammo giveaway sort of like the government did with cheese product and peanut butter years ago when they had a surplus of these products. they can give it away through the shooting ranges just like the government gave away the peanut butter and chees through the food pantries. that would really get the gun control nuts.
Lake City Army Ammo Mfg. Plant, run by Federal Ammo Company, alone produces over 1.2 Billion 5.56 rounds per year. HLS’s purchase of 62 million rounds, while disturbing on a political/Constitutional level, is a drop in the bucket considering the total US production, by all mfgrs, combined of 5.56/.223 ammo.
But I need 10,000 rounds