Posted on 06/18/2020 4:48:11 AM PDT by MtnClimber
In the year F&F was happening, before it was exposed, the media has a flurry of stories explaining how the 2A was causing Mexican violence. The whole thing was a big and well coordinated assault on the 2A.
And never forget, Obama and Hillary murdered upwards of 500 people to advance their plot.
Several Fish & Game Dept. engraved Glock 36.
I was price checking.
Sure, what you say makes sense.
But at the box level, there’s enough liberal gun owners to “lose” ammo or “donate to the cause,” anyway.
And Fast & Furious was deplorable. It wasn’t only to gin up antipathy for the Second Amendment, IMHO. Some of the weapons simply went to cartels with Dem connections, I’d bet.
Same reason as TP did recently. Word gets out. Folks go to buy more, shelves empty faster. Then when stock comes in, folks buy quickly thinking they won’t get the chance if they wait. My local WM back then only ever stocked about 30 bricks of .22LR at a time. In a town with 90,000 people. Most hunting rounds were plentiful. Just the more popular stuff was empty.
He was in the US Senate just prior to the war. He was Defense Secretary much earlier - as in over a decade earlier.
You have to hand it to the Democrat party. They DO learn from history
Makes some sense now, eh?
Mr. K wrote: “Enlighten us then... what was the actual amount and where did it go?”
The dollar amount didn’t go anywhere. There never was an intention of buying those quantities. I managed a similar contract for the Army. Contracts are negotiated years in advance and it’s difficult to project requirements.
The contract will have multiple line items corresponding to different types of ammunition. There will be multiple lines for 9MM, 7.62MM, etc. The 7.62 might have lines for different bullet weights, powder charges, etc. Each line will have a maximum and minimum quantity that can be order. The prices may vary by quantities. When you sum all those different lines you can get quantities in the billions. But, no one will order all the maximum quantities for all the lines.
For example, in my contract, a summation of maximum quantities across all the lines would have resulted in dollar amounts five times my budgets. But, this contract allowed me to tailor each years orders to the ammunition expenditures in theater. Those orders could not be predicted in advance hence this type of contract which is very common in ammunition.
You can dig into the actual orders placed (matter of public record), if you want to know how many were actually ordered,
Texas resident wrote: “From the article:...”
Those quantities do not approach millions let alone billions.
The ammo market was very predictable for years. Manufactures made about the same numbers of rounds for decades although there was some shift in caliber distribution. When the story broke about .gov buying “billions” of rounds of ammo. It caused people to buy two boxes instead of one (for example). That caused a shortage that was self feeding. Remember the main shortage was in 22 caliber? .gov doesn’t buy 22, it was all those panic buyers that bought all they could. Here we are years later and at gun shows guys are trying to sell that 22 ammo for the same inflated prices that they paid for it. Not unlike the recent toilet paper shortage. TP is a more predictable market than ammo but panic broke the supply chain.
Funneled to terrorists I suppose?
Under Trump:-)
Front names for pose #51?.
Obama also CLOSED the last lead processing plant in the USA in Missouri.
And your point is?
Brownshirts in blackface..
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